St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31

LAY ana OmlCn, Mr. LaDOucbere pro-
tested against the selection of Justice
Day.
government substitute another English
| Judge. He said there was not single
Judge known as having sympathy with
those they were to try.
Mr. Smith said he believed that the
judges named had the complete ap-
prOyai of the English bar and everybody
of judicial knowledge.
IL Mr.. GOschen explained that the gov
eminent had selected these judges as
non--political parties who had never
been in parliament. He trusted that
| the house would indOrse this view.
They were good judges and thoroughly
Ia lRELIABLE FOR IMPARTIALITY.
r. John MOrely said that he quite under
stood the governors difficulty in alter
ing the composition of the commission.
| Butthat made no difference. The fact
was that it had been injudiciously
selected. [''Hear. hear."l The.inqulry
waSnot expected to act as If he were on
the nbench. Nothing had been said
against justices Hannen and Smith.
toned. Regarding Justice Day,
| he said he had received
letter from an absolutely reliable
source, a gentleman having peculiar
means of knowing Justice Days mind
| upon Irish affairs, and he had told Mr..
| Smith the name of his informant, who
wrote that Justice Day was a man of
| the Seventeenth century in his views
concerning Catholics. Like TorQue-
mada, hewas Tory of the high-flyer,
non-juror type. [''Hear, hear" He
nightly rails against Mr.. Parnell and
his friends. He regards them
AS 1NFIDELS AND REBELS,
and as lie astray by a Catholic nation.
He believes them guilty of any crime.
ICries of "Name"l MIR. Morley said
he would not publicly give the name.
He proved his good faith by telling Mr..
Smith. [Cries "Oh! Oh''l Surely in
the face of feeling of that kind
towards Justice Day, the government
would not retain him on the commits
sion, against which there ought to be
no whisper raised. He voted against
the nomination. [Cheers.
Mr.. Balfour held that Mr.. Morley had
gone too far to maintain any reticence
about the authority of the letter. Justice
Day had right to ask the name of his
traducer. [Cheersl. The government Sc
lected Justice Day as man who never
associated with a party, whose conduct
on the bench proved that he was quail
fed to
EXECUTE THE ARDUOUs DUTIES
of a commissioner. Mr.. Morley had
played upon the word judicial in saying
that the commission was not strictly a
judicial tribunal. True, the procedure
of the commission would differ from
that of an ordinary tribunal, but it
would not differ as regards the judicial
spirit. Justice Day was man of honor,
and showed in accepting the post that
he was not rendered incapable by any
previous action or statement approach
ing the questions with which the COM
mission had to deal. [Cheers.
ViscOunt Wolmer Niberal-Unionist)
protested against the conduct of Mr..
Morley in reading
AN ANONYMOUS LETTER,
maligning a member of the commits
sion. Mr.. Morley assured the house
there was nothing sinister in his with
holding the name of his correspondent
Ehe person in question was colleague
of Justice Days upon the Belfast riot
| commission. and was barriSter named
Adams. [Cheers.l
Mr. Gladstone said he felt that it was
| his duty to support Mr.. Morley. After
informing the government regarding
Justice Days bias, and giving them a
chance to
ALTER THE COMMISSION,
/ III WAS IiSilt, Niiou tnty Icluocu W
make a change, to communicate the
facts to parliament also. The govern
ment might readily have selected an
| other Judge-one to whOme there could
have been no objection Hear, hear.
Mr.. GOSchen said that Mr.. Morley had
not shown the letter to any minister
until to-day. If the letter was intended
T to have any effect upon the govern
ment's selection, it ought to have been
/ shown earlier. Mr.. Morley declared
that he only got the letter Saturday.
Mr.. GoSchen said nothing was known
by the government regarding how much
the
LATTER MIGHT BE BIASED.
They had no time to communicate
with Justice Day to ask about the accu-
racy of the reported private converse
tiOns of Mr.. Adams. The government
were entirely ignorant of the politics of
Justice Day. Both Justice Day and
Justice Smith were raised to the bench
under Mr.. GladstOne's government. Mr..
Parnell said he had heard every Off
cial .
ACCUSED OF JURY PACKING
declare that he knew nothing about the
politics or religion of the jurors. But
somehow it always happened that
Orangemen were the jurors put on
juries to try Nationals and Catholics.
The government could no longer plead
ignorance in regard to commission
composed of two Conservatives and
one Unionist. The world would know
tomorrow that the governments idea
of fairness was that the Nationals
liSh political opponents. Cheers.
Upon division the vote stood: For JUS
tice Day. 269: against him, 1Sn, The
names of Justice Hannen and Justice
Smith were agreed to without a division.
Mr.. Anderson moved to omit the word
ALLEGATIONS" in the clause empowering
the commission to inquire into the
| charges and allegations against certain
members of the house of commons"
MIR. SEXTON COMMENDED
| that the word was vague and useless,
| giving in his opinion all indie
| finite scope to the inquiry. Sir William
Vernon Harcourt challenged the gov
ernment to explain the meaning of the
Clarke declined to do so, whereupon
Sir William said: "The object of the
retention of the word appears to be
| to admit every kind of calumny unre-
strained by any of the judicial principles
lying at the foundation of justice. Mr..
Sexton says that the government was
| going further in behalf of the Times
than the Times itself
! DESIRED TO GO.
After nearly three hours discussion
the amendment was rejected, 265 to 200.
R.T. Reed IiberaD proposed an amend
ment restricting the inquiry to accuSa-
tions of completely in murder or vio-
t ,lence. Mr.. Matthews said that the OBJ
ject of every amendment on the paper
was to limit and contract the scope of
the inquiry. If Mr.. Reeds amendment
| were adopted it would exclude arson
and intimidation. He reminded the
house that the charges were not confined
to completely in crime, but extended to