Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-19
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Damages Awarded acknowledgements
ment's Irish Policy-Other Foreign


rBy AnrIo-American cable 10 tho DIspatch.I
LONDON, February 1s.-Mr. Campbell,
member of the House of Commons for
South Fermanagh and private secretary to
MIR. Parnell. was charged in speech de
liYered at an Orange meeting with having
provided the knives with which Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary
Burke were murdered IN Phoenix Park.
The speech was published in the Belfast
.Nelcs Letter. Mr.. Campbell brought an ac-
tion of libel against the paper, which was
TIED ,G - in DnIlin today. The paper was
found guilty of publishing tho libel and
damages of f2OO were awarded the PLAIN
MIR. William O'Brien has written letter
TO the Freenlda'S Journal, in which he says
he accepts the report of the Parneu COM
mission as the worst that the three mono
rable Tories, restrained by the agltatlons
of judicial propriety, can say against the
Nationalist. Yet the Times, he says, ought
to be placed in the pillory OF history pc
side the most heinous propagation OF raise
charpes. MIR. O'Brien denies that he joined
the league to secure the separation of Ire
land from England. He was convinced
wears before the league was formed tnat
separation was impossible. He joined be-
cause Mr.. Parnell's action IN Parliament
induced Mr. Dillon and himself to beheve
that the aims of Ireland could be obtained
by parliamentary methods.
Mr.. Maurice Healy, member for Cork
CITY. asked the Government in the House
of Commons to-day whether the refusal OF
John DAILY. a life convict in Chatham pri-
son TO connect the Parnellites with the
dynamite outrages had been treated with
enhanced severity by the prison officials.
MIR. Healy requested that sworn inquiry
be made as to Days treatment; that the
members Of the House who desired to IN
vestigate the matter be allowed the same
access TO the prisoner as the alleged agent
of the London Times .,
Mr. Henry Matthews, the Secretary of
State for Home Affairs, said he had no au-
thority 70 grant the request Tor sworn In
ouiry. He denied the allegations against
the prison officials. and said that DAILY had
stated that no had no complaint 10 make
of his treatment.
Mr.. Healey then asked the question,
"Was DAILY nearly poisOnedI" =.
Mr.. Matthews said that the PRISON DIS
penser had put too much bella donna III
the prescription for DAILY. He had since
been suspended for his negligence.
Mr.. Henry Iabouchero asked whether
the Government intended to demand a
vote for the expenses Of the witnesses VINO
testified before the Parnell Commission. =,
Mr.. William l.. Jackson. the Financial
Secretary of the Treasury, stated that no
demand of that nature had been made upon
the Treasury.
Mr.. Henry Campbell Bannerman. Home
Ruler member for st. Irving district, re-
sumed debate on the address IN reply 10
the Queens speech. lie suinme9 " ;no
case against the Government by declaring
that il had wilfully resorted TO coercion
when coercion proved 10 be worse than use
less The Governments whole Irish poll
CIV, he said, was one of persistent wrong
doing. There could be no pacitication Oh
Ireland as long as there existed an allena-
tion of the masses and the destruction OF
popular confidence in the administration
OF justice. ,Looc
MIR. Balfour said that since he had been
Secretary for Ireland he had replied 70
constant series OF votes OF cehsuIo' a.
much alike. backed by much violent ian,
| guace. but by no substance of fact. bruiai
attacks upon his Government exactly the
| same as those made by Mr.. O'Brien were
made by the press upon Earl Spencer anu
Sir George Trevylan..
Mr. O'Brien appealed to the Speaker %
! say whether il was IN order 10 impute "
him brutal and savage attack.
Mir. Balfour withdrew the epithet "pru'
tai" but quoted an article from MI
0'Brien's paper wherein Earl Spencer wa
described as dullard in politics, whos'
temper was soured because ne was a IaiI
ure socially. and who, while in office, wa'
guilty OF gratifying his vindictive feeling,
by turning the law into an Instrument .
murder and outrage, who did not punissi
crime, but shielded nameless inia
mics. These wild phrases were ~
/ that time the current coin OF tn'
Parnell party. During the present de
bate his administration OF tue anair
in ireland had been compared TO tn
tyranny of Russia, although EVERYBODY
knew that the comparison was nonsensicai
The endeayor OF the Government was u
free Ireland from the bondage OF an un
sorupulous conspiracy, to suppress intimi
dation, TO give TO the people the common
rights that all people are supposed 70 pos
soss in civilized countries. The system Q
Terrorism involved in the plan of the can,
paign and the boycottiDg was contrary no
only 10 general but TO common moranty
and absolutely destructive OF the simpies