The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-12
IRELAND'S UPHILL FIGHT
ARCHBISHOP WALSH'S VERSION
OF THE RESCRIPT.

He Says it Deals with a Question of
Morals and not of Politics-John Dill
Ion Sentenced to Serve six Months
Lord Carnarvon Outlines His Plan
of Self-Government.
DUBLIN, May 1.-Archbishop Walsh, in
letter to the Freemdn's Journal in refer
ence to the Papal rescript condemning the
plan of campaign and boycotting, says;
THE rescrlpt decides question of morals,
not of politics. If doubts and controver-
sizes arise concerning its meaning the Irish
Bishops or the Vatican will explain it. The
Irish people may be assured that neither
the national movement nor the national
league shall be in the least injuriously
affected" The Archbishop strongly denies
the truth of the statement about his own
action in respect to the rescript. He says
the reports of his conferences at Rome
with the Pope were all inventions
The Catholic Weekly Herald says the
government will found and endow an Irish
Catholic university.
JOHN DILLON GIVEN SIX MONTHS.
The trial of John Dillon, charged under
| the crimes act with melting tenants not to
| pay rent, was concluded to-day. Mr.. Dillon
was convicted and sentenced to six months
Imprisonment without hard labor
Mr. Dillon took an appeal after his sent
ence, and the hearing was fixed for June 2S.
| The Irish Times liberal Conservative
says that at a meeting of the Irish Catholic
| Bishops Wednesday, to consider the ponti-
| tical rescript, it was resolved that the
| principles of the rescript which might be
good from philosophical, theological, or
| political point of view, must be considered
in connection with local circumstances.
Therefore, while treating the rescript with
every respect, they felt bound to communi-
cate with the holy see in regard to it.
CARNARvoN's REPLY TO PARNELL.
LONDON, May 11.-Lord Carnarvon in
his reply TO Mr.. Parnell complains of Mr..
Parnell's inconsistency. First, he says Mr..
| Parnell, in the House of Commons in 1886,
asserted that he Lord Carnarvon) had con-
veyed to him i'll behalf of the government
! knowledge of an intention to offer an Irish
home rule scheme. On his lord Carnar-
von'S) denial that he had made such COM
munication Mr.. Parnell dropped the matter
and did not refer to it again until February
| of the present year, when he asserted that
Lord Carnarvon had expressed his belief in
the necessity for home rule. ''He now ad-
mits,n continues Lord Carnarvon, "that he
himself did the talking and that | was only
a listener. The next stage of Mr.. Parnell's
explanation will without doubt bring him
| into happy conformity with all l have
said"
HIS IDEA OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.
Lord Carnarvon explains the point of his
idea # the proper basis for Irish self-gov-
! ernment briefly as follows: First, supremacy
of the crown and imperial Parliament in
| ultimate resort; second, control of the
police and the appointment of the judiciary
| by the Crown; third, limitation of local
| taxation to such extent as to prevent in
| Justice; fourth, reasonable satisfying of the
| people of Ulster; fifth, the whole to be pre-
ceded by some land settlement. To these,
| Lord Carnarvon says, must be added sepa-
ration of the legislative and executive func-
| tions.
DIFFICULTIES OF THE SCHEME.
! He details very fully the difficulties of
such a scheme, and thinks that in the eyes
| of Englishmen he may appear to steer too
| close to the rocks and quicksands, while in
the eyes Of some Irishmen a gift coupled
with such limitations might appear worth
| less. But right or wrong, he says the
scheme is utterly impossible now, Mr.. Glad
stone having destroyed all chance of a
reasonable settlement on such basis.
THE CROWN COLONY IDEA.
Lord Carnarvon then deals with the
Crown Colony idea in similar detail, and
| gives it as his opinion thai though the plan
is difficult one, it is not impossible. He
says in conclusion that he has written thus
frankly in order to dispel all ambiguity in
regard to mis- views, which he declares are
the result of his gathering the opinion Of
| every class of the Irish people. His
| ideas are entirely his own, and his late col
leagues are In no way responsible for the
| He claims that his letter must be consid-
cred as a whole and not in piecemeal.
In the Ho SO of Commons this afternoon,
Mr.. Smith, the government leader, said
that the statement that the government
had decided TO found and endow an Irish
Catholic college was baseless.