Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-12-09
THE HOME RULE QUARREL

Parneh's Opponents Gobble the Best
Seats in the Commons.
LONDON, Dec. ain the house of COM
mons yesterday among the first TO appear
were forty one of the anti-Parneilite MEM
bers of the Irish Nationalist delegation
These gentlemen lost no time in securing
the most eligible and conspicuous places
ON the first four benches Immediately be-
low the gangway. Their object was to
prevent the ParneIlites securing their
usual seats, which were advantageously
placed. Parnell had taken the precaution
to secure his seat by affixing to it ticket
bearing his name. This, however, did not
prevent Healy, who arrived later, from
seizing upon the seat, and comfortably
sinking therein.
Mccarthy Tells Him to cit"
In the midst of peals of laughter Justin
Mccarthy worked his way over to Healy
and warned him forthwith to vacate. The
anti-Parnellites appear to be in the best of
spirits. Mccarthy, in the midst of the en-
thusiastic cheering OF his party, gave mo-
tice that Oh the reassembling OF the house
he would call attention to the circum-
stances attending the trial of Dillon,
OBrien, and Others at Tipperary and
Clonmel, and that he would move a reso-
luton in connection with the manner In
which the prosecution had been conducted
by the government. The supplemental
Irish bill which provides an appropriation
of 5000 for the supply of seed potatoes to
suffering Irish cultivators went to its
third reading
Hesiy Assumes the Lead.
Balfour then demanded that the bill
providing land department for Ireland
be advanced to its second reading. Healy
moved that debate be adjourned on the
ground that the government was treating
the mousse with contempt in attempting to
force the measure through without ex-
planning its provisions Healy afterward
Withdrew his motion to adjourn the de-
bate, and substituted an amendment
which would have involved the rejection
of the bill. The amendment was defeated.
The bill was then read second time by a
vote of l9l to 129. Parne1l, who had come
in shortly before the division and taken a
seat next TO Mccarthy, voted with all the
irish members present, of both factions,
against the bill
The Secessfonists Warned.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal assumes
That the threat OF the secessionists to start
new paper in Dublin, is threat against
ie'cii. IL says tudt IL Will De QeliglteQ to
welcome the new journal, but warns the
gentlemen who may be willing to invest
money i'll the new paper that the hardest
thing to make or unmake is good newspa-
per, and that the worst time to start such
project is when the promoters are at the
lowest ebb of their popularity, many of
them hardly daring to show their faces in
Dublin.
Notes of the Fight
The commissioners of New Tipperary
have given their adhesion to the anti-Par-
neliites. 1t is suggestive in this connec-
ton, however, that the fund for the sup
port of the new town is in the hands of
O'Brien and Dillon, instead of ParneIl
Parnell is to go to Ireland shortly, and
open the campaign. There is report that
his enemies at Cork win have him hustled
when he arrives there Parnell will speak
at Dublin tomorrow
The latest offer to Parnell is one from
America offering him SIS 900 for a lecture
tour in that country. He has declined the
Offer
o'Brien cabled Parneu appealing to him
to make suggestion on which the coun-
try could be saved. Parnell replied: at is
now too late to rescue the seceders from
their false position. shall be glad to con-
suit you ON your arrival In Europe