New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-19
TIE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY TALKS ABOUT 1T.

ENLIGHTREING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CLUB
CHURCHILL CHARACTERIZED.
Justin Mccarthy the principal speaker last night at
the Nineteenth Century Clubs discussion of The Eng
sh Parliament" The American Art Galleries were more
crowded than and many members of the club and
their friends forced stand In the Railways of the
lecture upstairs through the whole evening" Mr..
Mccarthy introduced by Daniel O. Thompson. vice-
president OF the club and spoke In all about seventy
minutes The member from Londonderry Is large full
bodied man. with thin rongray beard and rudy face
He drcss-coat Of course. and black waiscoat
across which hung stout gold chain with heavy dangling
seals His quiet, his rising Just above
the conversational andhis graceful phrases carried the
audience along delighted and all attention.
Mr. Mccarthy began by contrasting the two Houses OF
Parliament elective. the other hereditary. one
representative the other whimsical The House OF Lords
was clog on reform legislation merely negative.
ve0ing power. How. then inaction avoidable in
such Government Like the gold coins which the Vicar
OF Wakefield gave his children be neither changed nor
spent 80 the power Of the Lords given them on the
condition that they would never be guilty OF
the absurdity OF using IT, This power, In
fact, had not been used since the passage
OF the Paper Tax Bin under Lord Palmerson The Com
took away the and the Lords restored It, IL was
a good joke for once. Palmerston told them then.
but 1t must be repeated And since that time the
Upper House has been real factor IN politics
No real statesman nowadays will consent to bury himself
In Its anguOr and duness AS Charles James Fox said
during his last illness when he told that the King
contemplated raising him to the peeragc. Good Heav
ems Does he think 1t has come 10 this with my intellect
alreadyi"
The House OF Lords is whitening arm. II has been
shunted sidetrack John Bright said expressvcly
and il 1t stays there and does nothing may last for
many years r. come England L. far behind with the
most pressing legislation that cannot bother with
abOshlng the Upper House Henry Labouchere stirs
the peers each session with witty trade against them
In the House of Commons but the Commons. though
amused takes the speech seriously and will not be
prevailed upon do while far urgent things
IN hand.
1.-The House Of Commons" continued the speaker. is
a contrast completely But one change in the suf
frage will make 1t wholly popular body. We sill need
law in Great Britain that '1ay have one vote and
only Now is possible for majority OF votes ~ lie
in favor Of Ministry or measure and majority OF
IL nne the
have five. ten and even twenty votes Take MI Glad,
stones Land Bill. for instance. Ireland scotland and
Wales practically solid in supporting IT. In the
country whole the majority OF voters were for
IT, bat IT. failed through the plural votes OF the arstocras
and landowners of England"
Mr. Mccarthy then the peculiar customs of the
House OF Commons the complicated method OF address
ing members the divisions 10y going into the Hobbies the
"connting out adjournment f9r lack Of Quorum me u,
who goes home summons OF the ciier ~ me emu OF
business, recalling the days OF the highwayme1,
London THE great burden on legislation now"
said the speaker Ia the appalling bulk OF municipal and
should be dug in Dublin gas lighted in Edinburgh
ter distributed in Liverpool. must all pass through
ests OF the opera ives in factories the farm hands and the
postponed for ten, twenty thirty OF forty
years"
Great depaters. Mr. Mccarthy said. had always been
the leaders In the House of Commons But there was no
in the Government whom any kindness Of
friends cOncet OF his could put for moment on
par with Gladstone. Lord Randolph Churchill was
clever. energetic, audacl0us young man.
who made himself odiOus to his titu-
lar chiefs III subordinate position that
they could DO nothing but give blm the highest one All
ireland could not govern the Earl Of Kildare so the Earl
of Kildare set TO governing Ireland Churchill stuck
at nothing, afraid of nothing Like the Western man
Lowell tells about, capable Of meeting tho
august shade OF Julius Caesar. pat him ON the
back and call him "Old H0ss" Yet with added
seriousness he would probably make some time. good
Prime Minister. "Party government" Mr. Mccarthy SAID
in closing, is unmixed evil The good OF the
country often forgotten in the good OF party Yet no
other in England well take its place The strife and
uncertainty give "a charm. allurement. dramatic
quality politics, and make ambition even, as OtheHo
says. q virtue"
An nerluission OF fifteen then taken. The
discussion was continued afterward with speeches by
simon 5terne and Woodrow Wilson.