The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-15
BALFoUR YIELDS A POINT
Order Stopping Prosecution of Papers
for Printing Leagne Proceedings.
Continuation of the Debate on the Reply to
the Queens Address Highly Alarming
Symptoms in Frederick Williams Case.
THE IRISH QUESTION.

Secretary BsIfour Yields . Point-The De-
bate ON the Address.
LONDON, Feb. 14-The Cabinet council. in its
session to-day. decided to instruct the Dublin
executive to cease prosecuting Irish newspapers
for publishing reports of suppressed league
meetings.
In the House of Commons to-day Sir &c orge
o. Trevelyan, resuming the debate on the adj
dress, declared that the conviction of twelve
members Of the House of Commons under the
crimes act, would do more than anything else to
effect a settlement of the Irish question The
country had seen that Irishmen could be ar
rested in England for crime created by the
coercion act-a crime that did not exist under
English law, and for which an Englishman could
not be arrested nor could foreigners be sur
rendered. The Liberal-Unionists. who had
formerly advocated loca. government in Ire
land were now silent.
Major Saunderson said that Mr.. ParnelTs at
tack upon tho government, last evening, was the
weakest be has ever made, and did not justify
the conditions against which the government
was fighting. The Parnellitss were never law
abiding people and never would be. Irishmen
did not naturally sympathize with the law, and
that was one of the defects of the race to which
he himself belonged. Concluding. he asked
whether the moral law of the Gladstonians,
was likely to educate the moral sense OF the
people.
division will be taken on Mr. Parnells
amendments to the address Thursday even
ing The Conservatives express confidence of
defeating it by majority of 85 votes.
Mr.. Thomas w. Russell, member from South
Tyrone, spoke at great length in favor of the
Irish policy of the government He urged Mr.
Balfour to go straight ahead, pay attention to
nothing outside of the law. and shut his eyes to
the pestilential notion that commoners and
priests should receive different treatment from
that given to the peasants.
Mr.. Labouchere made scathing attack upon
the government in connection with the Mitch
elstown affair, into which he demanded q search
ing inquiry.
The Mayor of Cork was sentenced by magis-
trate. to-day, to fourteen days imprisonment
without hard labor, for assaulting Police Ser
geat Cox at ''plan OF campaign" meeti ng
on Jan. IT,
Mr.. w. j. Lane, member for East Cork. who
was released from Tuliamore jail to-day. WAS
welcomed his arrival at Cork by a large
crowd, accompanied by several bands of music,
which awaited him at the railroad station,
and escorted him through the streets.
While the crowds and the bands were return
ing home after the demonstration, stones were
thrown FROM that portion of tho crowd imme-
diately behind the musicians and the police.
The police charged upon the head of the process
sion smashed the musical instruments and scat
tered the musicians in all directions The
crowd rushed forward and fierce fight
sued, during which eleven policemen and four
teen civilians received injuries. which, however,
were not serious in any case.