Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-10
TORIES STILL IN POWER
The Salisbury Cabinet Not
Yet Resigned.
Gladstone's Speech Against the
Government.
He Scores Them for Not Giving Up
When Whipped.
The Great Tactician's Ski1Iful Handling.
of the Irish Question-Balfour
Twits Him for Not DivuIg-
Ing His Policy.
BY the Associated Press.l

LONDON, Aug. 9.-In the house 0
commons, today, the first matter taker
up was the case OF Egan, the invincible
sentenced for imprisonment under th'
crimes act. The home secretary said h'
could not hold out hopes for Egan'i
release soon.
Lowther, parliamentary secretary o
the foreign Office, announced that thi
British East Africa company had in
atructed it's officers to leave Uganda BY
August 3lst.
|. Gladstone now began his speecf
against the government. He said ths
government had departed from al
precedents in not resigning wher
the verdict of the, country was against
them. The house of commons had now
met. but what for? The queens speech
told them nothing. Was the house o
commons to fight the battles of the last
six years over again. Never had great
issue submitted to the country been &C
fully discussed as the issue decided al
the last general elections.
Continuing, Gladstone said Goschen'a
remark that home rule must be carried
out by the Irish majority, if carried out
at all, was not pertinent, as the majori-
ty in the house was no more Irish than
Scotch or Welsh. Such an argument
struck at the root OF the constitution of
the United Kingdom. The Conserva-
tiyes said that in the speeches of the
Liberals home rule was not always prom
inent. The verdict of the people had
shown that the country meant it to be
prominent, and therefore put an end to
the present government. He said that
the coercion bill ought not to be re-
tanned on the statute book longer than
required by parliamentary usage.
Gladstone credited the present gov
ernment with reduction of the nation-
al debt, but complained that they in-
hicted on Ireland gross wrong in making
her pretended reparation by local
government bill too limited to satisfy
the Irish wants or offer any solution Of
the Irish troubles. He acknowledged
that the house must have some light
upon the future but it was not possible
for the Liberal government to say what
measures they would submit to parlia-
nent six months hence.
In regard to the suggested holding of
session in November, he said any gov
ernment taking that course would show
an inadequate sense of the magnitude,
duty and variety OF the subject it had to
deal with. Ireland had for years been
in the forefront Of the battle,
and still held the position.
The principles of his home
rule bill we're pretty well known. By
its provisions there would be full and
effectual maintenance of imperial SUI
premacy, while Ireland would be
given the conduct of her own affairs.
Irish representation in the commons
was also contemplated under certain
conditions. Ais to the form in which
the principles would be embodied, it
was the duty of the Liberals to select
the best, but not until they had been
placed in power. For seven years the
rbill had received his first and absorbing
attention, and would 80 continue till
the end. The house would pass bill
giving Ireland self government, and it
would then go to the lords. He would
not argue upon the probability of the
lords rejecting the bill. The obliga-
tions Of the Liberal government would
utterly forbid acquiescence in the rejec-
tion of its obligations to promote the
settlement Of q great subject. He said
the various measures OF reform which
the Liberals endeavored to pass while in
the opposition, represented the essential
character of the Liberal policy.
In regard to evicted tenants, Glad
stone expressed the hope that in the
autumn q voluntary arrangement be-
tween landlord and tenant would obvi-
ate the necessity for such legislation as
would become inevitable, if no arrange
ments were made.
In concluding his speech, Gladstone
REQUIRED to the Conservative argument
that the Irish majority was trying to
coerce England. He held that such was
the strength of England, in relation to
the other kingdoms, that she could
never be coerced by them.
Balfour followed Gladstone. he
maintained that the commons had a
right to know, before entrusting the
government to the Liberals, what their
policy was.
In regard to the proposed vote of ''no
confidence," continued Balfour, the
government might be in the minority,
but what was the majority Had that
motley group the confidence of the
house? Before the government re-
signed, they had right to ask what
were the conditions under which the
alliance between the Liberals and Irish
would be maintained; what conditions
there were between the Nationalists
who had been squared and those who
had not been squared, and what de-
mands had been made upon the Liber-
| ais when they came into power. II
disturbances arose in Ireland, was dis
order to have free hand? Was it q
| part OF the new compact that DAILY and
other convicted dynamiters should be
turned loose upon the world.
Lieutenant Colonel Edward James
Sanderson Conservative, made ban
tering speech in which he charged that
Rome would govern Irish affairs, say
ing that the chief members of Glad
stones cabinet would, in reality, be
Archbishop Walsh.
Redmond predicted that the Irish
parliament would be as free from inter-
ference on the part of Rome, as from
interference on the part of the British
| parliament.
Interest in tonight'a debate was
heightened by curiosity at to how Glad
stone would respond to the demands