Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-02

1 due to the administration of the Govern
menf, and expressing surprise that the in
crease IN agricultural values was put 70 the
credit of tie Government
/ Referring 10 the Parnellite prisoners. he
denounced the degrading hardships and
personal sndigDities they suffered He de-
Lieu that .he treatment of political prison
eTs under the Liberal Government was
similar. No other Government, Liberal or
Conservative. had given imprisoned polit.-
csi men such usage. lCheers Balfour's
plea that The tFeatment of prieoners could
n.lr be altered without alteration of rules
5eyond his power, was ludicrous. The
plain ruth wss that the present treatment
OF prisoners was 3 part of the system of
extreme repression.
GLADSTONE proceeded 10 give glowing
aceouit 0f the progress of Ireland under
Drunmond. from 1885 to 1910, contrasting
1t with the regime of Balfour He Hedeclared
that the breach between the people and
Government is now widening, and that the
confidence Of the people in the law and the
administrators of the law is impaired and
almost gone. lCheers.l
10 conclusion Gladstone said To con-
tlnue the state of things under which so
many representatives of this House are
placed under The ban of prescription, is
impossible You may depriveof its grace
and freedom the act you are asked to do,
but avert ityou cannot prolonged cheers
10 prevent the contamination of il is
utterly beyond your power Il seems to
approach at an accelerated rate, but, come
slowly or quickly. it is surely coming, and
many of you who have opposed it must
already see IN the handwriting on the wall
the signs of youl coming doom" ECheers.
Goshen denied that the Government de-
tn laln e
government in Ireland. What right, he
asked, had Gladstone 10 presume that it
would not be dealt with by the present
Parliament? When the time was oppor-
tune the Government would be ready to
grappie with the difficulties
AN OVATION TO PARNEII.
Parnell. upon rising to speak, was greeted
with enthusiastic cheers, all the members
of the Opposition, including Gladstone,
rising in their places AM waving their hats.
Mr.. Parnell said he desired to offer a few
words of sympathy 10 those of his col
leagues and friends who bad suffered
by the principles adopted by the
Chief Secretary for Ireland. He (ParnelO
believed they would be richly rewarded in
the near future by attaining the object they
had at heart. Balfour iried to degrade
them. but they We're not degraded, neither
III tuelr own opinion nor In the OPINION OF
their counlrymsn. Circumstances had
been favorable for Balfour in the rise of
agricultural prices, and but for her excep-
tlonal law Ireland would, he believed.
have been trsnqril The Government was
responsible for, and must stand or fell by
the result of that Law. He would not stop
TO discuss the conspiracy which had as
sisted the Ministers on the very night of
the second reading to steal away the liber-
ties OF Ireland. Loud cheers] He thought
less OF the suffering of O'Brien, Carew and
Redmond than of the suffering of the
humber men in their ranks, because the
authorities did not care TO kill O'Brien or
torture Carew. But men like Vaudeville
might be done to death in carrying out
their system. Renewed cheers
Expressing confidence that Englishmen
would soon recognize the possibility of
home rule for Ireland, he said he only
asked that they should deal with the eues-
ton as an open one, and consider how far
they could concede home rule with safety
to their own greater interests He was
convinced that the system would steadily
resist any Indictment 10 disorder and hold
fast TO the true way pointed ont to them in
1865 by Gladstone. prolonged cheers
DOCTOR TANNER ARRESTED.
On leaving the House DIR. Tanner was
surrounded by crowd of Radicals and
Nationals and escorted to the Palace Hotel.
At the hotel Tanner made a speech in
which he eulogized Gladstone. He was
enthusiastically cheered. Tanner was SUBJ
sequenily arrested in the smokipg-room of
the hotel and taken to Scotland Yard