Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
Irish Members Of Parliament, by
Being Absent From Their Seats,
EARN A LECTURE FROM PARNELL.
Fifteen or Twenty More Votes Would Have
Beaten the Government. =
NO WELCOME FOB VICTORIA IN VALE
,BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. /.

LONDON, August 17.-[Copyright] THE
summer solstice is upon London, and she is
deserted of all who can fly from her. To be
seen in the streets, unless in travelling COS
tune, as if one were hurrving through, is to
confess ones self not of the monde, unless
indeed Parliament is the OBTAINING in
fuence. The hopeless Legislators consider
their lot hard one.
On Monday the grouse shooting season
began, and the thoughts of the Lords and
Commons tied down to the benches of St
Stephens were OF the faraway moors, where
guns were cracking and birds were falling
the temptation to inaugurate the grouse
season, either, and the attendance in Parlia-
ment has been very slim.
The Irish members, however, have been
very regular in their attendance since Mon
day. On that day 20 Irish members were
ABSENT WITHOUT EXCUSE.
besides four in prison, sick, and 4
abroad. Parnell called a meeting of the
party in the evening, and gave it a stirring
up 1t will not soon forget, as, by the dila-
toriness of the absent 20, the opportunity
was lost of defeating the Welsh tithes bill
and inflicting a serious injury upon the
Government He detailed the efforts he had
made to secure q full attendance in antici-
patton of catching the Government mapping,
with more heat than he often displays, and
particularly complimented William and
Patrick O'Brien, who had come post haste
from remote parts of Ireland, in the face of
dangers and difficulties, to answer his sum-
mons.
He pointed out that in the first division
the Government only secured majority Of
1S, and that 20 members Of the Irish party
were absent, so far as he knew, without
reasonable excuse, and if these members
had been present, the Government would
have been defeated by a majority of two.
With regard to the second division, in
which the Government only secured a
majority of four, he showed that Is men,
bers of the party were absent, and that if
they had been present the defeat Of the
Government could have been secured by
IL votes In the third division there were
also Is Irish members unaccounted for,
who, if they had been present, would have
enabled the party to defeat the Government
by two votes.
FULL OF EXCUSES.
On Tuesday the missing men were all in
their places, and full of excuses and apollo
gies, and the Government whip was at once
issued to call back the Conservatives from
the whip were SO angry at being disturbed,
and so indignant at the ministers for chang
ing the bill, that many of them voted
against it, SO that the ministry is not wear
ing a halo of glory at present
Practically, they are beaten. They mar
rowly escaped defeat ON two or three occa-
sions, and on the last occasion, seeing that
they were outnumbered, they gave way en-
tirely on one of the most essential clauses of
the bill. This, of course, ruf1ed the men
who had hitherto stuck to the bill, and the
distracted ministers were jeered at from
every side
Mr.Smith announced that he would bring
in bill embodying the new clauses, and
then Mr.. Speaker, who noticed something
like wink in the Tory leaders eye,
stated that it could not be taken, as it was
practically a new bill Thus the whole |
question is thrown over until next session.
VICTORIA AND THE WELSH.
down to Wales in a few DAYS, and up 10 a |
week ago it seemed that the usual loyal |
greetings would extend to her. Now, how
ever, there is some doubt as to that. Wales
is the hotbed of the disestablishment move
ment. Wars for the recovery of tithes have
always been more bitter there than in any
other part of the kingdom.
The rancour attending the discussion of |
the titbe question in the House of Commons
seems to have indamed the minds of the
iery Weishmen, tor one of the prominent
Dards of that people, certain Tom Gee, of
Den nbigh, tells the Queen pretty plainly. in
. little paper he publishes, called The Ban
aer, that she, as the head Of the established
,hurch, is the cause of all their woes, in.
,luding the tithe troubles; that she is the one
stumbling block in the way of redress, and
hat if she escapes being hisse6 out of
W Wales she may think herself lucky.
This was g bombshell. The authorities
lave been up in arms ever since, and talk
very large about prosecuting the bard, but
for the Queen there are too
many Welshmen of the bard's way of think
ng. and legal proceedings might lead to a
lot, therefore the notion arrived at is to
gnore Tom Gee. The trouble is that Mr..
Zee and his followers may not ignore the
queen altogether.