The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-17
MONEY FOR THE TENANTS.
The McCarthyites Agree to Distribu'
ton Of the League Fund.

ton Of the League Fund
LONDON, Feb. 16.-At q meeting Of the
McCarthyite members Of parliament in
committee room No. Is to-day it was
resolved to acquiesce in the proposition 70
devote the remainder Of the League fund Of
$4,000 to the benefit of the evicted ten
ants, provided the money is distributed by
the Tenants Defense Association. IL was
also resolved to endsavOr to secure, by
legal means, control of the United Ireland
ORGANIZING FOR THE FRAY.
A meeting of the -Parnellites was
held here to-day with the object Of organ
| izing for the purpose Of carrying on the
canpaiga IN Ireland against that section Of
the irish party led by Mr.. ParnelL
The branch of the national league at
Douglass, county Cork, at its regular meet
ing yesterday, decided to sever its connec-
ton with the central branch and to work
| independently of that body, which, as
whols, supports Mr.. Parnell. The meeting
at which this course was decided upon was
presided over by Catholic priest.
MCCARTHY cLAIMs CONTROL.
Justin Mccarthy has announced that he
has received from Patrick Egan a deed of
transfer for his share in the United Ireland.
and that this deed will empower him NC
Carthyl with legal control Of the paper.
GLADSTONE NOT STRONG.
LONDON. Feb II, . A. M-Although Mr..
Gladstone delivered a vigorous speech, he
was evidently indisposed and leaned heavily
on his stick. He spoke at a time unusual
with the first rank speakers, owing to his
desire TO return early. The members of
the House who had been fiocking out to
dinner remained to listen, finding that Mr..
Gladstone was up.
Secretary Balfour was IN fine fighting
form. Maintained by exhilarating support
and ministerial enthusiasm, he made one Of
the most dexterous. brilliant and effective
| speeches he ever delivered.
The division on Mr.. Morley's motion was
on strict party lines, Mr.. Gladstone having
paired and the whole Irish party supporting
Mr.. Morley.
The discussion over the adjournment was
| long and angry, and threatened an all night
sitting. The House finally adjourned at
1870 o'clock this morning. There was an
unusual gathering in the peers gallery,
which included the Earls of Derby, Cooper
and Aberdeen, Lord Ashbourne, the Duke
Of Norfolk and the lord chancellor.
THE SCENE IN THE HOUSE.
At 500 o'clock this afternoon the House
of Commons was filed from the galleries to
| the floor. Mr. Parnell sat below the gang
way, between Mr.; Thomas Bailey Potter
and Mr.. Timothy Healy. Mr.. Sexton sat
behind Justin Mccarthy, on the
same bench as Mr.. Morley. Mr..
| Morley arose and, in accordance
| with the notice previously given by him,
moved that the House adopt vote censur-
ing the Irish executive for its action in the
| Tipperary prosecutions. Mr.. Morley's reso-
luton declared that such action on the part
| OF the Irish executive was calculated to
bring the law into contempt, and was
| violating the rights OF the citizens.
| Mr.. Morley said that the mo-
ton, instead of being put out of date by
recent events, was most opportune, in view
of the fact that two prominent Irish mem
bers of parliament had just passed on their
way to prison and in sight Of the House.
j Hear, hear.] The imprisonment Of these
members OF parliament, continued Mr..
Morley, was the climax of the Tipperary
proceedings.
HIS EYES OPENED.
He appealed to the House as to whether,
until September last, his attitude toward
the Irish police had been hostile, but after
seeing in Tipperary the working of the tres
| mendous coercion machine, his eyes had
been opened as to what pitch of demoraliza-
ton, brutality and lawlessness the
agents of Secretary Balfour had been
brought to by Secretary Balfour
standing up for every act Of theirs,
right or wrong [cheersl; credting every
statement Of the police and refusing to
| "
dence was against them. Hear, hear.1 At
ter passing ten minutes in fipperary, added
Mr.. Morley, he saw marching aud "booing"
made the pretexb for the violent dispersal Of
a small crowd. The police adopted a
course on that occasion for which,
in England. Col Caddell and every
man concerned in it would have been
cashiered. The scene at the entrance of the
court house was further evidence of the po-
lice lawlessness. 1t was not a dense, savage
| crowd, as some people supposed, but as
quiet and harmless O crowd as he ever saw,
The police used brutal, ferocious and ahso-
lutely unorovoked violence, OF which any
disciplineIsforce in the world ought to be
ashamed.
RUSSELL REPLIES.
T. W. Russell (unions.l said that Mr..
Morley spent three hours IN Tipperary and
enbolted by the next train. Laughter.
He ridiculed the statement that the crowd
was harmless. No Tipperary mob has ever
been before held up to admiration as a
pacific crowd. His amendment asked the
House to vindicate the action OF the police
in view of the conspiracy in which Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien had been convicted.
Their melting advice had turned
Iipperary, which was one of the
most peaceful towns in Ire>
land, into place as desolate as if it had been
swept by a scourge. He did not question
the right to share in a fractional fight, but
why while in Tipperary did he not inquire
of the people the cause of the local ruin?
He would have learned that their
misery was due to boycotting, accompanied
by every kind of violence. Hear, hear. ]
Thanks to the government, honest Irish
mon had better chance of pursuing lawful
business. Village ruffianism had been dis
placed. Mr.. Morley sought to tie the hands
of the executive and prevent the protection
of the friends of law and order in Ireland.
GLADSTONE EXPRESSES SURPRISE.
| Mr. Gladstone expressed surprise that the