Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-30
THRESHINC OVER OLD STRAW.
Morley's Dreary Harangue to Bored
Listeners and Empty Benches.
JosepH's souIBs AND CRACKERS
A Certain ''Mr jesse Ceilings" Goes
Into An Eostacy Of Delight
Over His Leaders Funny
Sayings.
Death OF the Grants Debate.

Death OF the Grants Debate.
tCopyriDht 1889 by Jdutss Gordon Bsnnsu.1
LONDON, July 29.-lNew York erald
Cablo-Specal to THE BEE Everything
1t would be possible to say with advantage
on the royal grant question was said last
Thursday and Friday. Why come to see
Morley laborously thrcshing over old strawl
The majority of the members stayed away.
Whole rows OF benches were empty to-day
when Morley began. On the front opposi-
tion bench were Chamberlain, Sir Henry
james and Sir w. Harcourt, who were after
wards joined by Gladstone and Harrington.
On the other side were most Of the ministers
with q look of more complete boredom than
usual on their intellectual countenances.
Smith might have sat for study of an early
christian martyr and Balfour for memorial
figure In the stained glass window. Belo
the gangway on the ministerial side were
only four members present Consul General
New sat under the gallery. He vanished
after n time. Morley was evidently too
much for him. Morley came to set dead
horse on his legs and make him run over the
course again. 1t could not be done. Morley
produced his essay aud laid it on the box be-
fore him. tits very convenient to have that
box, for you appear to be only casting re-
Elective glance at it, when in
reality you are searching for
catchword in your notes. But Morley does
q good deal more than that He reads SEN
tences after sentences and page after page
and 1t Is certainly not too much to say that
yesterday he read fully two-thirds of his
speech. 1t Is impossible to make this sort
of thing lively for an audience ana Morley's
style Is little adapted to carry off such
burden with good grace. He has somewhat
feminine manner and seems to be anxious to
disguise the weakness of which he IS con-
scious by throwing tremendous emphasis
on unimportant words or each half word
with many ierlSings OF the head and doub
lings of the body. Morley had big weight
TO lift and he could not lift it, small blame to
him, for nobody could have done it.
Confident of success, with manifest con-
tempt for all who had preceded him, Cham
berlain advanced gaily to the desk. He re-
quires very few notes. Moreover, he can
answer promptly and his arguments, If not
deep, generally have dapper appearance
and are pretty sure to go Off with a snap.
He had no very difficult task before him in
showing up Morley's Inconsistencies, which
really have been almost too absurd for belief
on this question. Why vote against
Laboucheres resolution on Friday night and
then bring forward one OF your own mean
ing precisely the same thing the following
Mondays This question and others like
1t did Chamberlain press upon his dear
friend. "honest John, or finally jack" as the
last playful nickname goes, until he
was almost out sof breath. When Mr..
Chamberlain went into the humorous line
and gave extracts from "a dl airy of u per.
picked politician very carefully got up but
not at all entertaining, the conservatives
opposite, good, honest souls, saw that their
newly acquired friend, Joseph, seriously in
tended to be funny and they generously GU
couraged him with laugh and cheer. BY
this time, If not before, it must have become
clear to everybody that the great royal
grants debate was really and truly defunct
and that the kindest thing to do with it
would be to take it aside and bury it.
At the beginning ofthe debate "a certain
Mr.. Jesse Ceilings" was seated comfortably
on the front bench, but when Mr.. Chamber
lain began to speak he moved TO the gang
way and there took his seat upon the steps
close to Storey, the member for Sunderland,
no doubt with view of interfering as sort
of buffer between that member of the stall
wart party aud Chamberlain. Should Storey
go for Joseph, he could only do it over the
prostrate form of the faithful Jesse Ceilings.
There he sat on the floor lost in an ecstacy
of delight, hanging breathlessly on every
word that fell from his revered
leaders, lips and gazing into his
face with simple and pathetic alteration.
Presently he saw that the great man was
getting ready to let Off the squibs and crack
ers which Joseph always has at hand for the
conclusion of q speech, and his spectacles
fell from his nose in the excitement of the
moment. Bang, fizz, went the fireworks in
all directions, but especially among MIR.
Chamberlaiu's old comrades. the radicals.
He had evidently come down for the express
purpose OF having it out with them and re-
paying some of the shrewd digs they have
lately been giving him about fiunkyism and
Rmanifest desire to creep into the tory fold.
Chamberlain's attack, like his apologies Of
the diary, was overdone. he pumped him
self up into fit of great indignation but
you could hear and see the pump at work.
The new radicals he denounced as good only
for destructive purposes, not good in any
way for constructive They sought to pull
down every thing. They wanted TO throw
the construction into the melting pot.
One rubbed ones eyes and looked around
In establishment Were not these the very
accusations which were brought not long ago
against himself There was once a book
published called WHO'S Whoi" The ser.
geant-at-arms should buy few few copies
for the house of commons. Now there is IN
deed war to the knife publicly proclaimed
between Chamberl ain and the new radicals
A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.