The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-08
THE HOME-RULE BILL.

Another Statement from MIR. Oh amberlain.-
Attitude of General Wolseley.
LONDON, May Thomas Bolton, member Of
Parliament wrote letter to Mr.. Chamberlain,
asking him if he would support the home-rule
bill on its second reading, provided it be consid
cred simple affirmation of the principle of
home rule leaving the question of the retention
of Irish members open for consideration in com
mttee Mr.. Chamberlain replied:
s'If Mr.. Gladstone will maintain the imperial
Parliament as the supreme representative
thority in the kingdom, will gratefully accept
the concession and vote for the second reading
of the bill. But 1 am unable to find in Mr..
Gladstones manifesto any such assurance. He
asks us to grant Ireland the right to manage her
own affairs. But if geographical considerations
must yield to sentiment, then the prayer of
Protestant Ulster for separate Parliament
demands equal consideration. have maiu-
tanned my position against the bill as proceeding
on lines of separation or colonial indie
pendence, instead of federation. l have
considered the full representation of Ireland in
the imperial Parliament too important detail
to leave for the committee. The question must
be settled on the threshold Of the discussion.
The extension of home rule TO Scotland and
Wales depends on the maintenance of united
representation of three countries In one supreme
Parliament leading to future federation of the
great dependencies OF the crown and the weld
ing of them into mighty and harmonious en-
pre. Mr.. Gladstone's alternative has rendered
necessary anomalies and restrictions which
no true Liberal will approve. He has produced
a hating measure which offers no reasonable
prospect of a final settlement and which is GER
tain to be fulcrum for future agitation. He
has brought us within measurable distance of
civil war, threatening the ultimate creation of a
foreign hostile nation whose reconquest is actu-
ally contemplated as possible eventualiry by
the promoters of the measure. So long as IN
certainty prevails in matters of such paramount
interest, it is impossible for those who value the
unity of the empire to affirm the principle of the
BILL"
Lord Carlingford an old and intimate colleague
of Mr.. Gladstone, before joining the Liberal
Unionist committee, tried to obtain the senti-
ments of the Premier on the probable amend
ments to the Irish measures. He ascertained
that the homerule bill would be maintained in
all essential points
The Pail Mall Gazette to-day sent a reporter
to the War Office to ask General Wolseley il he
had declared that if home rule were granted to
Ireland he would resign his command for the
purpose of leading an army of Ulster men to re-
sist the new Irish government, and that one
thousand other British officers would follow his
example, as stated by Mr.. William Johnston.
Loyalist member OF Parliament for South Bel
fast, in a speech at Dungannon, last night The
reporter was informed that General Wolseley
was not in the Office. The newspaper man left
word that the Gazette would rensw the inquiry.
short time afterwards it officially denied
that General Wolseley had ever made any such
statements as those attributed to him by Mr..
Johnston