Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-13
THE pARNELL CASE
The Famous Commission Ad-
 journs Over Easter.
THE DEFENSE IS IN GOOD SHAPE.
Hosts of Witnesses Will Bc Examined
 Whom the Sessions Are Resumed.

Whom the Sessions Are Resumed. 1 The ll.s,u.. Words of Sir Charles Rus. sells i:,. .qu.nt Address "A Grea,
 Speech :."l Worthy of the Great Occa.
 sion''- Chief Justice H,"nen Congratu.
 Iatcs the speaker Ireland in the | House or Commons.
 LONDON, April l3.-When the Parneh Commission opens again after tho Easter holidays It will be found that Sir Charles | Russell has got the defense in most excel. lent shape.
 The testimony of Mir. Parncll which will be taken first will be of immense value to the cause, and after that probably for the next six months the reading public will have before them an almost interminable vista of witnesses from all parts of the world and from all ranks of life.
 A whole nation has been put on its de- fense by the action of the Times in its con duct of the prosecution, and Sir Charles has seized upon the opportunity thus af- forded of pleading Ireland's cause before the whole world.
 He will produce a crowd of witnesses and has the privilege of passing all Ireland through the witness box if he chooses.
 That he will avail himself in large measure of this opportunity is certain. Un- der his skillful handling the best possible points will be brought out and his magnii- cent speech has outlined the course he will pursue in this respect.
 
 Upon the opening of the session of the Parnen Commission yesterday Sir Charles Russell resumed and concluded his speech in defense of the Parnellites.
 He said that he would undertake to show that the money Parnell gave to Byrne was for the ordinary expenses of the Land League, and not, as was alleged, to enable him to escape. He declared that Parnell was not aware that Byrne was in peril.
 In concluding his address Sir Charb,s said the Court was trying the history of the Irish revolution, and he asked for 1t fair and generous consideration. ''If prosper ity was returning to Ireland," he said, II would thank God, but affairs are unhealthy when people consider that to imprison a member of the House of Commons made Of that member hero and a martyr"
 He did not speak, he said, mainly as an advocate of the members of the House Of Commons but he spoke for the land of his birth, and. as he believed, in the best inter- ! ests of England.
 Mir. Russell's conclusion caused quite a sensation. The general opinion is that Sir l Charles never spoke ln better form. } Chief Justice Sir James Hanneu, passed a note to him in which he said: 'I congrat- ulate you. 1t was great speech and worthy of the great occasion. |, -
 -In the House of Commons last evening, Prof. James Stuart, Gladstonian, member for Hoxton, asked MT. Balfour whether the circular sent to the Irish police directing them to furnish information as to the do- ings of the League was designed to aid the , Times in its case before the Parnell Con- mission.
 Mir. Balfour replied that he had made 1t q rule to neither admit nor deny any allega tions that might be made in regard to al
 legged secret circulars.
 , MT. Parnell demanded that the Chief , Secretary make straight answer to the , question put to him. Mir. Balfour's refusal to explain implied that explanation involved something he was ashamed Of. Hear Hear!] The use made of the circular, he
 continued, proved that the Government was
 not neutral toward the Commission, but
 were prosecutors behind the Times. MT. - Parnell also referred to the use of batter 5 ing rams to enforce cvictions in Donegal He protested that their use was not only an act of cruelty, but of barbarity.
 Mr. Balfour, ignoring Mr. Parnelrs de- : mand for straightforward answer to MT. | tering rams was necessary, as tho persons 6 to be evicted had in almost every case erected within their doors an elaborate
 barricade with intent to hinder the officers
 of the law in performance of their duty.
 Sir William Harcourt described the policy I Of MT. Balfour as one of of exter mination t The Governments remedy to alleviate the ., sufferings of the Irish tenants was to leve y tho houses of the poor people to the ground @ Mir. Goschen declared that the Parnellites $ were responsible for the existing state o1 o affairs. The evictions occurred not be s cause the tenants couldn't pay their rent 't but because they wouldn't. It seemed tc D him that Harcourt preferred that the heads
 of the police should be battered rather thar
 that the doors of tenants houses should be
 opened upon the demand of the law. *.*
 l. An amusing battle of memorials Is going st on in the House of Commons at present .s The supporters and the opponents of the a Woman's Suffrage Bill are both canvsssine e the members with great assiduity in orde, v to persuade MT. Smith, the Government h leader, to their respective views in regard Q to the Easter recess. The debate on the bil
 is set down for Wednesday, April IT, and
 its fate largely depends upon Mir. Smith.
 
 In recent debates in the House of Com a mons the Government position in regard tt N,a N its alliance with Germany to suppress u - African slave trade has been strongly criti 's ', cised. It is asserted that Bismarck is sim ~ ply using England in the business, and tha .,- England's influence and prestige in thu .n East and in Africa will help repair some O. 'e the blunders made in those quarters by Ger
 man officers and representatives. As on
 of the members put it, England is no
 acting as the St. Patrick of Africa, but a B Bismarck's jackal."
 at Dr. Tanner, the most aggressive O; tn g. Irish members, is employing the remnan sn of his liberty before his imprisonment un ao der the Crimes act, in a vigorous campaig
 in various parts of England. He recent
 visited Norfolk, where he received an en
 thusiast1c reception from the large numbe