Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
.SEXT0N'S IRISH BOMB.
He Tells Parliament 1t is Incom-
petent to Rule His Country,
CITING HISTORY AS HIS PROOF.
Chilean affairs and the Espiegle Shipment
of Bullion is Up.
WHAT BRITISH LEGISLATORS TALK OF

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tion put to the Government in the House of
Commons to-day regarding the oppression
! OF the Stundists by the Russian
Government, the Rt. Hon. James Lowther,
Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign
Office, and said that the Government did not
intend to demonstrate with Russia against
her treatment of religious sects unless the
people opposed were British subjects.
Lord George Hamilton, First Lord Of
the Admiralty, responding to question,
denied that the British Government had
been involved in any constitutional ques-
tion by the conveyance of Her Majesty's
ship Espiegle from the Port of Coronel,
Chile, to Montevideo of 1888 bars of silver
valued at e145, 900 for the then President,
Balmaceda. The question of the legal title
OF the existing Chilean Government was uni
versally recognized and the shipment of the
bullion was regular. Lord George Hamilton
added, however, that a change in the naval
regulations by which the captain of the
Espiegle was allowed to convey the silver
in question, was under consideration.
Some Recent Chilean History
This silver, after reaching Montevideo on
the Espiegle, was transferred to mail
steamer and taken to Southampton. 1t was
consigned to the head Office in London of
the London and River Plate Bank.
In the meantime the Balmaceda Government
was overthrown, and all injunction was OBJ
tanned in the Chancery Court by rep
resentatives of the Congressional
Government restraining the London
and River Plate Bank from indorsing
or handing over the documents relating to
the bullion, and compelling its deposit in
the Bank of England until the rightful
ownership was passed upon by the courts.
Mr.. Jackson, Chief Secretary for ireland,
stated that the whole sum of 10000, 900,
assigned for the purchase of land in Ireland
under the Ashbourne act, had been ab-
sorbed. The pending applications for ad-
vances, he added, amounted to e361, ,584
above the sum provided by the act
Sexton Throws an Irish Bomb.
In the debate this evening on the address
in reply to the speech from the throne,
Mr.. Sexton (McCarthyite) moved an
amendment, of which he gave notice
few days ago, declaring that a
majority of the Irish people and their rep
resentatives in Parliament are convinced of
the inability of the Imperial Parliament
to legislate for ireland in the manner
required by the distinctive interests
of that country, and that this
conviction has been intensified by the man
ifest failure of the land purchase act to af-
ford basis for an extension of the class of
occupying tenants.
Mr.. Sexton held that proof of English ina
bility to legislate for Ireland was found in the
fact that while England since the union had
progressed by leaps and bounds, Ireland had
been reduced to the lowest level she had
seen within century. Throughout
the stupendous transactions of five
years under the Ashbourne act, he said, not
a penny had been lost by the State, the Sc
curities provided for under the Ashbourne
system of purchase being all sufficient; but
the purchase act of 1891 had been fatal
blow in the insurance fund, forthcoming
the act to failure .,r~-
Why Ireland Must be Set Free.
As a result, not pound of the guaran-
teed land stock had been taken. The evic-
ton clauses had also failed. They had
tempted landlords to ask exorbitant prices.
Until ireland was set free to manage her
own affairs, Parliament would never be
free to manage English affairs
Mr.. jackson replied that Mr. Sexton's
criticisms of the land act were premature.
The act had been in operation only
a few months. Special causes accounted
for the small amount of business vet done
under the act When tenants had time to
appreciate the value of the land stock, that
stock would find ready market.
Mr.. Sections amendment was rejected by
the close vote of 179 to 1853 The announce
ment of the figures was received with pro-
longed Opposition and Irish cheers. The
address in reply to the speech from the
throne was then formally adopted.
To Mr.. Sexton's query whether the local