St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-24
Parnellites Show That JailS
in Ireland Are Veritable
Pest Houses.
All Manner of Indignities Are
Heaped Upon Political
Prisoners.
England Offers to Settle the
Behring Sea Trouble by
Diplomacy.
Mrs. Maybrick's Friends Will
Appeal for an Uncondi-
tional Pardon.

LONDON, Aug. 23.-In the house of
commons this evening, in the debate on
the prisons vote, an attack was made
prisoners. The case of Mr.. Conybeare
having been referred to, Mr.. Balfour
announced that Mr.. Conybeare was now
cured, and the only question remaining
was as to the origin of the disease. Nc
Fadden, he said, was the previous occu-
pant of the cell. A thorough eXamina-
ton revealed no trace of disease in the
prison or among the prisoners. At the
conclusion of the examination he con-
sented to the transfer Of Mr.. Conybeare
to another jail. Mr.. Blame followed
with an account of his experience
in Londonderry jail. He declared that
sick prisoners were never sent to hos
pital until they were nearly dying. He
had seen prisoners arrive suffering from
lice. The closets were in filthy con-
ditiOn. He and other prisoners had been
exhibited from the balcony to lady
friends of the officials.
HE HAD NEVER COMPLAINED
of his treatment because he knew it was
useless to do so. Mr.. Sexton violently
attacked Mr.. BalfOur's alluSiOn to Nc
Fadden. Mr.. Balfour, interposing, said
he intended no insinuatiOn. Mr.. Sex
ton, continuing, described the London
derry Jail as pest house, where prison.
ers contracted fever and were thrust out
to die. He detailed one case of fever,
amid groans from the Parnellites, who,
crying Another murder" "There'S the
assassin" invited Mf. BalfOur to smile.
Mr.. Balfour said that long familiarity
with such attacks induced contempt.
After adducing statistics to show that
there was lower rate of mortality in
Irish than in English prisons, he said that
the humanitarianism of the Parnellites
was onlp awakened when their friends
were imprisoned. Mr.. Sexton, COM
planning of personal attack, drew an
indirect rebuke from the chair on both
himself and Mr.. Balfour. L. ". Rus
sell UniOnisD, member for Tyrone,
urged that in order to satisfy the pub
lie, sanitary engineer be appointed to
inspect the prisons. Mr.. ParnelI, in
the course CT his speech, contended
that oakum picking was ill-paid work.
and that an endeavOr was made to conf
penSate even for this outlay by
REDUCING THE FOOD SUPPLY.
The result was the permanent enfee-
Element of the prisoners. For himself,
he was convinced that the Irish prison.
ers were halt-starved. They ought to
be provided with plenty of remunera-
tive work, and should be better fed. All
the older prisons are in bad sanitary
condition. He had himself seen. in the
older part of Kilmainham Jail, the liquid
sewerage leaking through the founda-
lions of the walls and bursting into the
very yard. He was convinced that
Derry prison required to be entirely re-
built. Otherwise it's Objectionable con-
dition is irremediable. The medical
officers tried to hide the fact of the
existence of fever under the
medical name of tuberculosis. Mr..
Balfour had been guilty of cul-
pable neglect. He was glad that
Mr.. Conybeare had been removed, but
he urged the house not to forget that
the humber victims of BalfOur were
liable to be stricken at any moment
while Mr.. Balfour disported himself
with characteristic nOnchalance. He
hoped Mr.. Balfour would give some
assurance that an engineer would be
appointed to lay the truth before the
country. Mr.. Balfour would find that
his procedure would only strengthen
Irishmen in their determination not to
yield. Mr.. Balfour did not compel his
pet Belfast forgers to clean the prison
cess-pools as he did Fitzgibbon. The
Parnellites would force this question
until justice was obtained. The prisons
vote was adOpted-113 to 69-and all the
other votes were agreed to.