The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-08-31
THE WELSH TITHES BILL.
The Irish Members Lose Splendid OPP
portunity by Not Beng Present
at the Time.
LIBEL ON HERBERT GLADSTONE
The Tory Party Try to Discredit Glad
stone and Thus Hurt the Home
Rule Movement.

Ihe Tory Party Try to Dlscredlt Glad'
stone and Thus Hurt the Home
Rule Movement.
The summer sOlsCice is upon London,
and she is deserted by all who can fly
from the city To be seen in the streets,
unless in travelling costume, as if one
were hurrying through, is to confess
ones self not of the monde, unless, in'
deed. Parliament is the OBTAINING indu'
ence. The hopeless legislators con-
slider their lot hard one. The grouse
shooting season has begun, and the
thoughts of the lords and commoners,
tied down to the benches Of st. Steph-
ems, were of the far away moors, where
guns were cracking and birds were fall
ing. Not all of the statesmen resisted
he temptation to inaugurate the grouse
season, either, and the attendance in
Parliament has been slim. The Irish
members, however, have been regular
in their attendance lately. During the
early part OF last week twenty Irish
members were absent without excuse,
besides four Ia prison, forty sick and
four abroad. Parnell called meeting
OF the party, and gave it a stirring up
it will not soon forget, as by the dila
tOriness OF the absent twenty the oppor-
tunity was lost Of defeating the Welsh
tithes bill. and of inAicting serious in
jury on the government. He detailed
the efforts he had made to secure a full
attendance in anticipation of catching
the government mapping, with more
heat than he often displays, and partic-
ularly complimented William and Pat
rick O'Brien, who had come post haste
from remote parts 6of Ireland, in the
face Of danger and difficulties, to answer
his summons. He pointed out that in
the first division the government only
had secured majority of eighteen. and
that twenty members of the Irish party
were absent, SO far as he knew:
WITHOUT REASONABLE EXCUSE.
If these members bad been present the
government would have been defeated
by q majority of two. With regard to
the second division, in which the gov
ernment only secured majority Of
four, he showed that fifteen members of
the party were absent, and. if they had
been present. the defeat of the govern
ment could have been secured by eleven
votes. In the third division, there were
also fifteen Irish members, unaccounted
for, who, if they had been present,
would have enabled the party to defeat
the government by majority of two
votes On the next morning the miss
ing men were all in their places and full
of excuses and apologies, and govern
ment whip was at once issued to call
back the Conservatives from their game
preserves. Those who answered the
whip we're SO angry at being disturbed
and 80 indignant at the ministers for
changing the bill, that many OF them
voted against it, so that the ministry is
not wearing halo of glory at present.
Practically they are beaten. They mar
rowly escaped defeat on two or three
occasions, and, on the last one, seeing
that they were outnumbered, they gave
wav entirely on one of the most essen
tial clauses of the bill. This, OF course.
rufied 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 a bill embodying the new clause. and
then the speaker, who noticed some
thing 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.
LIBEL ON HERBERT GLADSTONE.
The extremity to which the Tory
party is driven in it's efforts to discredit
Gladstone and injure the home rule
movement, is indicated by the fact that
a Conservative member of Parliament
l6 Ou OuO HVAAo VI 50uOAhS AAoO OC11Ou0
trouble through having llbelled Herbert
Gladstone. Young Gladstone is man
of high principle and is very popular in
the House, where he sits, as member
for Leeds. The libel which was pub
lished in the Allahabad undia) Morn
ing Post, and reprinted in the London
newspapers, accuses him of dishonor-
able and immoral conduct of an out
rageous nature. Mr.. Gladstone has put
the matter into the hands of the emf
mont LAWYER, George Lewis. Lewis has
declined to tell the name Of the mem
Iber Of Parliament who is the CORES.
jpondent Of the Allahabad Post. Conn
mon runo1 is, however, that the guilty
man II either Sir Roger Lethbridge or.
Louis ~. jennings. Lethbridge is the