New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-27
THE GOVERNMENT SUSTAINED.
THE MOTION OF CENsURE REJECTED.
THE SPEECHES OF GLADSTONE AND OBRIEN I'm
REALISTICALLY RECEIVED.

THE SPEECHES OF GLADSTONE AND O'BRIEN IN
ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIvED.
London June 2e.-In tho House of Commons to-day
debate was resumed Mr.. Morley's motion. censuring
the Government for its administration of the Irish
Crimes Act William O'Bren (Nationalst held that the
Plan Of Campaign never really troubled the people,
and that they approved It, Nothing that had happened
to individuals under the plan could compare with the
suferings of tenants without the Plan. What had
happened TO tenants that could compare with the
action of Irish landlords In ingng tens of thousands
OF Nora Fitzmauriccs out of their homes to meet the
worst fate The disgusting captrap about crimes In
Ireland was what American politicians called the policy
of the bloody shirt IL policy of wal and hatred
between peoples who desired to live In peace Inc
Plan of Campaign, far from being a failure was
accepted now even by landlords like Lord Masscrccne
After years Of operation of the Plan of Campaign
there were $50 evicted tenants out OF more than
5000 whr had fought and won under the Plan Of
campaign. Cheers) He could further state that
every one of these $50 tenants comfortable
home to-day, and every man would yet como back to his
own homo in triumph (Chcersl
The Right Hon. Henry Chaplin Conservative
said that everybody knew thai If there was
one in England who was more
responsible than another for the atrocities OF the
League, It was the leader of the Opposition who
seemed to forget how he had encouraged them. Cries
Of Shame" !" "Withdraw.") Mr.. Gladstone might
have forgotten what words he used about the Parnelte
Va
memory, through inflmltics Of age.
Mr.. Gladstone, who upon rising was received With
cheers, said that however much he afflicted with
loss of memory through infmtes Of age nc hoped Tor
a time at any rotc trcnewed cheers that he would
able to cope with antagonists of the calbre OF
Mr. Chaplin. What was moro significant about the
state of Ireland than the fact that nineteen out Of
the eighty-sx Nationalist Members had been sent to
prsonl He ventured to say that If they went to
their constituents all of these nineteen would be re-
turned by larger majortes than before II only because
they were sufferers through the wrong doing of the
tbem but their ultImate appeal was to public opinion
Mr. Gladstone said that those who denounced the
plan framed when Parliament refused 10 meet the
necessities of the tenants Recent land court decisions
were not unjust. The c3l.J 0f Cromwell lived from
generation generation in Ireland. Could IT be sup
End atrocities almost incredible had been
done in the Of the law. could consider the law
iIony of fate that Mr. Dillon should be lectured upon
legality by Major Saunderson, who had threatened that
If Parliament passed certain law ne wonid &c conmse, nnS
before he arrived at Major saunderson's eminencc
Qaughter Mr. DilonS influence IN preventing 1urlher
bloodshed at Mchclstown might have been remembered
by the Judge when he inflicted upon Mr.. Dillon the
maximum penalty.
Mr. Gladstone then entered into long detailed ac-
count of the Kilcagh case which he charac erzed as
scandalous and bad anything that had happened
!" Mr. Mr. Bslfour was greeted with loud cheers. lie
taunted Mr. Gladstone with abstainng from bringing
against the Government in Parliament the accu;atons
that he made against them before popular audiences
His comparison of the acts OF the present irish mags
tracy with the conduct OF Judge JeffreS was the most
scandalous attack had been made In Parlid
mcnt (Cheers) II they were TO dismiss every mag
isfIaIC WI csc decision ovcrfuled they would hnu
hcr hands pref; full Was It asserted that ono In
nocent man had been convictedl The fact was that
tn. "a who had been found guilty gored In their Of
fences rather than denied hem.
In. reference to Mr. Dillon. Mr.. Balfour asserted
that the murder of Constable Whelehan was distinctly
traceable to his speech to the effect that he would
not tolerate landgrabbers. Was Il political offence
TO urge people to destroy landGrabbcrs? Mr.. Bal
four concluded by contending that the Government
had succeeded beyond their expectations In sup
pressing awessness I'm ireland. Whether they would
be allowed to proceed. no did not know but he did
know that the future of Ireland could only safely rest
on foundations of honesty, liberty and law. lCheers
The censure motion was rcjected-3G6 to 273.