The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-19
CELTSHAVING THEIR DAY
PARNELL's PRIVATE SECRETARY
GETS DAMAGES FOR LIBEL

OBr1en'S Acceptance or the Parnell
Commissions Report.
DUBLIN, Feb. .1S.-Mr. Campbell, men,
ber of the House of Commons for South
Fermanagh, and private secretary TO Mr.
Parnel, was charged in a speech delivered
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 NeUs
Letter. Mr.. Campebell brought on action
Of libel against the paper, which was tried
in Dublin to-day. The paper was found
guilty of publishing libel. and damages of
e200 were awarded the plaintiff.
oBRIEN AND THE REPORT.
William O'Brien has written letter to
the breenldn'S Journal, i'll which he says
he accepts the report of the Parnell COM
mission as the worst that three honorable
tories, restrained by agitations Of judicial
propriety, can say against the nationalists.
Yet the Times, he SAYS, ought to be placed
| in the pillory of history beside the most
| heinous propagator of false charges Mr..
O'Brien denies that he Joined the league to
secure the separation of Ireland from Eng
land. He was convinced years before the
possible. He joined it because Mr.. Parnell's
action in parliament induced Mr.. Dillon
and himself to believe that the aims of Ire
land could be obtained by parliamentary
methods.
A FEEBLE COURSE.
LONDON, Feb. 1S.-The Pail Mall Gazette
says that feebler course than that pro-
posed to be taken by the government on the
report Of the Parnell commission could not
be conceived The ministers are without an
| opinion, yet they dare not be silent. The
resolution which w. II. Smith, the govern
meut leader, saws he will introduce in the
House next Monday asking the House to
accept the report and thanking the COM
mission, will be tlabby and nerveless.
o'sHEA's DIVORCE SUIT.
In the probate DIVORCE and admiralty
division of the high court Of justice to-day
Justice Butt refused to grant the applica-
| ton made in behalf Of Capt, O'Shea, for
writs of attachment against the managers
Of the Star and the London editor of the
New York Herald for publishing certain
comments relative to the action for divorce
brought by Capt. OShea against his wife,
in which Mr.. Parnell is named as CO.
| respondent. In the case of the FreenldnS s
Journal Of Dublin, against the manager of
which paper similar application was made,
the court imposed fine of 9100, besides
compelling hun to pay the costs Of the ac-
| tion.
The Council of the Liberal Federation
| has passed resolutions congratulating Mr..
Parnell and his colleagues upon the result
OF the Investigations; regretting that the
authors and all persons responsible for the
forgeries were not called to account by the
commission, and demanding that the gov
| ernment offer reparation to Mr.. Parnell.
| TREATMENT OF DAILY
Maurice Healy, member for Cork city,
asked the government in the House OF
Commons to-day whether because of the
refusal of John DAILY, life convict in
Ch4 than prison, to connect the Parnellites
with dynamite outrages, he had been
treated with enhanced severity by the
prison officials. Mr. Healy requested that
q sworn inquiry be made as to Daly's treat
ment, or that members of the House who
d sired to investigate the matter be allowed
the same access to the prisoner as is al
lowed the agent Of the London Times.
Henry Matthew's, secretary Of state for
home affairs, said he had no
authority to grant the request for a
sworn inquiry. He denied the allegations
against the prison officials, and said that
DAILY had stated that he had no complaint
to make of his treatment.
Mr.. Healy then asked the question: "Was
DAILY nearly poisonedF'
Mr.. Matthews said that the prison dis
penser had put too much bella donna in q
prescription for DAILY. He had since been
suspended for negligence.
EXPENSES OF PARNELL CASE WITNESSES.
Henry Labouchere asked whether the
| government intended to demand vote for
the expenses of the witnesses who testified
before the Parnell commission.
William l.. jackson, financial secretary
| a.. - n
that nature had been made upon the
treasury.
THE REPLY TO THE QUEEN.
| Henry Campbell Bannerman, home
ruler, member for the Stirling district, re-.
sumed the debate on the address in reply to
| the queens speech. He summed up the
case against the government by declaring
that it had willfully resorted to coercion
when coercion had proved TO be worse
than useless. The governments whole Irish
| policy, he said, was one of persistent wrong
| doing There could be no paciication Of
| Ireland as long as there existed alienation OF
the masses and destruction of popular con-
| fidence in the administration of Justice,
Secretary Balfour said that since he had
| been secretary for Ireland he had replied to
a constant series Of votes Of censure, all
much alike, backed by much violent lam
| guage, but by no substance of fact. Brutal
dDJdCKS upon ulS ROV6FuIueuD, eXdCLlY Lno
same as those made by Mr.. O'Brien, were
made by the press upon Earl Spencer and
Sir George Trevelyan.
MIR. O'Brien appealed to the speaker to
say whether it was in order to impute
him brutal and savage attacks.
BALFoUR STICKS TO HIS ASSERTION.
Mr. Balfour withdrew the epithet, "bru-
| tal," but quoted an article from MIR.
| OBrien's paper, wherein Earl Spencer was
described as a dullard in politics, whose
temper was soured because he was a failure
socially, and who while in Office was guilty
Of gratifying his vindictive feelings by
| turning the law into an instrument of mur-
| der and outrage, who did not punish
crime but shielded nameless infamies
| These wild phrases were in that
| time current coin Of the Parnell party.
| During the present debate his administra-
| ton OF affairs in Ireland had been COM
pared to the tyranny of Russia, although
everybody knew that tho comparison was
nonsensical. The endeavor OF the govern
ment was TO free Ireland from the bondage
Of an unscrupulous conspiracy, to suppress
| intimidation, to give to the people the
common rights that all people are supposed
to possess in civilized countries.
SYSTEM OF TERRORISM.
The system OF terrorism involved In the
| plan OF campaign and boycotting was con-
| trary not only to the general law but to COM
mon morality, and absolutely destructive Of
| the simplest elements of freedom. CHEERS
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