The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-25

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had the basis OF truth!
SMITH AND THE TIMES.
Was Mr.. Smith prepared to answer the
charge that he had had a personal inter
view with the proprietor cf the Times and
had arranged charges against the Parnell
lies and agreed TO the appointment OF
commission to be worked as subsidiary
agent TO the coercion acts Hear hearl
The crimes alleged against the Parnellites
we're chiefly committed during the
liberal administration, yet throughout
close and anxious inquiry the
liberal ministers were unable to
discover any evidence linking the league or
Mr.. Parnell with those crimes. [Cheers,l
| The opposition objected to the present form
of the bill. AS now framed, the bill was
violation of every form of judicial inquiry,
and thoroughly unfair to the accused, and
it must be amended in committee.
sCOTLAND's SOLICITOR GENERAL.
The solicitor general for Scotland re
proved the previous speaker for his impu-
tations upon the competence of the com
mission -Ha had fagrantly misreprescnted
the purport of the bill Why was the
| opposition afraid of the widest inquiry? If
the ParnellteS were acquitted the acquittal
would restore them to the ranks of good
men. Until acquitted they stood stained
and suspected.
T. NJ. Healy denounced Sir Richard Web
ster for making a series Of infamous charges
and then declining to prove them. Patrick
| Ford was as honest man as Sir Richard
Webster, he ought to say an
honester man. Hear, hear.l The Irish
members mnst decline to submit to a fish
ing inquiry. They wanted definite charges.
The commission might say to him: ''You
were born in 1868, what did you do nextN
| Laughter and SO they might go on. The
10 afTn h Iaff ffpita
WEBSTER DEFENDs HIMSELF.
Several other members having spoken,
| Sir Richard Webster said that the part he
| had taken in the O'Donnell action precluded
/ his taking part in the debate. In regard
to the charges against him, he was willing
to leave his conduct to the Judgment of
those who had had experience
with him in his profession.
He thought it right however, to state that
every step in that action he had taken after
consultation and with the full concurrence
of Sir Henry James. [Shouts of "Oh! oh!"
and derisive cheersl He was quite
prepared for those cheers, but
| he was not ashamed to own that he
had taken advice Sir Henry James had
had experience. Upon him Mr. Websterl
rested the responsibility in the matter He
proceeded to explain that after Mr.. Reugg,
| O'DonnelIs counsel, had made pTinld fdcie
| case he kNlT. W 6DbLeIj Was COIlDbIleu W open
| the whole of his case in reply and then fully
expected to have t. prove it i'll detail. In
repelling Sir William Vernon Harcourt's
attack, which he characterized as un just,
! he said he should have been unworthy to
| be member of the bar if he had used in
formation obtained as counsel for the Times
to institute a prosecution in his official ca
pacity [Cheersl
FACE TO FACE WITH PARNELL.
Mr. Parnell, who upon rising was received
with cheers, asked: Are we TO understand
that information was put into the hands Of
| the learned gentleman as counsel for the
Times, which is not available for the pur-
poses of public justice" [Shouts of ooh,
oh. v
Mr.. Webster-This observation does not
in the least bear on the matter.
Parnellite cries of Answer the question. -
compelled the speaker to call for order
Mr.. Webster said that no case which he
had been prepared to prove on behalf OF
the Times against anybody. IA voice,
billFi He had abstained from
using the knowledge obtained in that action
either directly or indirectly in his official
capacity. He believed the attacks against
him arose from the chagrin of certain una
! vowed advisers Of O'Donnel described as
|
They had tried to run cunning"
and had failed and they were angry with
him because he frankly opened the whole
case. [Cheers.
The bill passed Its second reading without
division.
The committee stage was fixed for Mon.
day.
EvICTIoNs IN COUNTY CLARE.
DUBLIN, July 24.-The eviction Of ten.
ants was resumed on the Vandeleur es-
tates in county Clare to-day. All of the
tenants whom the bailltfs sought to eject
offered stout resistance, blocking their
doors with beams and boulders. A force of
police and soldiers protected the bailiffs,
who used a battering ram, advancing to
the attack under showers of boiling
and dirty water and stones
Fights occurred in many
cases after the bailiffs had effected an
entrance. Several persons were wounded
on both sides. Most Of the male tenants
and several neighbors who had assisted
them were arrested. An unsuccessful at
tempt was made to arrange q compromise
regarding the threatened evictions of other
| tenants.