Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-04
SALISBURY TALKS.
The British Premier Denies La.
bouchere's Charges.
GLADSTONE SPEAKS FOR PARNELL.

An Appeal for Justice to the Irish Lead
er-Hieks-Beach Offends Harcourt, and
the Latter withdrsws in q Huff-The
G. o. VI. Criticises the Report of the
Commission as Having No More Weight
Than the Opinions of Other Men.
LONDON, March Am the house of lords
asst evening the Marquis of Salisbury, re-
plying to the assertions made by Labouchere
In the house OF commons, explained that he
did not meet Gen Sir Dighton Probyn with
a view TO enabling Lord Somerset to escape
Probyn wired him Salisbury asking an in
terview As Probyn did not mention the
subject Of his requested interview he sup
posed that it referred to proposed journey
OF the Prince of Wales. de met Probyn
casually in the railway station and had with
him brief conversation, in the course of
which Probyn mentioned the scandals. Lord
Salisbury declared that he never said a war
rant was about to be issued for Lord Somer
set and he did not believe that Gen Probyn's
character would permit him to do anything
with the intention of defeating justice.
The lords was crowded with Conservative
members of the commons to listen TO Sails
oury's statement, and the premier's words
were received with an incessant storm of
cheers
Gladstone Appeals for ParneII.
In the commons Gladstone was present
for the first time since his recent slight i'll
ness. During his confinement, he occupied
himself with the preparation of an elaborate
speech on Morley's amendment to the gov
srnment motion that the house adopt the
| report of the Parneli commission. Morley's
motion was to incorporate in the govern
| ment motion an apology Co Parnell and
denuuciation of The Times Gladstone
spoke for two hours
Disparaging the Report.
He said that If the motion of the govern
ment had sufficed to do justice to the mem
bers impugned he would have been willing
| and ready 10 support it, but 1t was utterly
insufficient. Although he deemed it his duty
to criticise some of the statements of the
| judges, be believed that there was not line
of their report that was not written in
honor and good faith. But in what respect
he asked, had the judges more weight or
authority than other experienced men in
deciding how far crime In ireland was due
to the league, or to oppressive evictions1
The judges had unearthed an obscure paper
called The Irishman, filing several pages of
their report with extracts therefrom, which
| Archbishop Walsh had chara cterized as
abominable. Were they equally liberal in
| according blame to other things equally
abominabei In dealing with the grand and
| capital offences concerning which they were
especially directed to inquire, all that they
had said was that the letter upon which the
| charges were founded was a forgery
Separation a Dead Issue.
The report convicted the respondents OF
| joining the league with a view of separating
| Ireland from England. This occurred ia
| 1880. In 1890 he rejoiced to believe that the
| idea of separation was dead The cha rges
| that the Parnellites in their speeches had in
cited intimidation were ten years old 1t
was dangerous precedent to recur TO these
long dates i'll order to obtain matter to hurl
| at political antagonists. Changes, he said
had already taken place in Ireland, and re-
| forms were impendingi which owed their
| impetus 20 the Parnellites and would be ac-
| complished without violence, largely through
| the wise methods of the Irish party The
charges against Parnell were not made at
random, bat with the assurance of the most
| careful scrutiny. For long time Parnell
had been thus pilloried before the country.
Was not PREPARATION due himi he asked
| Surely members should not hesitate to give
what acknowledgement they could TO a man
who had suffered an enormous wrong
Tories Charged with lngratitude.
he declared that nothing was affirmed
| against the Parpelhties now that had not
been affirmed by Chief Secretary Forster
| and himself The Parnellites were not con-
demned then. The Tories. he said. had ridden
into power on Psrnell's shoulders and now
they forSake him. 10 conclusion, he appealed
from the Conservatives as party 10 the
| Conservatives a. individuals He begged
them as men TO acknowledge the law Of
| equal moral obligations 10 place themselves
in Parnelrs position. He earnestly appealed
| for Judgment from heart and conscience and
| closed by saying: Il entreat. aye. demand
such judgment as will give scanty reparation
| for an enormous wrong"
Beach Ruffies Harcourt.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach said the report
was devoid of political prejudice aud passion
and the house certainly ought TO accept it.
Citing ParneB as authority against the as
sertion that the Conservatives before com
| ing into Office were pledged not TO renew
coercion, Beach demanded that Harcourt
| apologize for that calumny
Harcourt replied that he had not heard
| the statement, and then left the house, de-
| claring that he would not stay to he abused
Beach, continuing, said he inferred that
the Parnellites had voluntarily supported
| the Conservatives in 1885 in order to equalizs
the parties and secure the balance Of power
Socialistic Methodist Preacher.
CHICAGO, March AT the regular weekly
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