The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-08-25
sALIsBURY's DEFEAT.
Graphic Description by a Member
of Parliament.

done. Mr.. Gladstone is once more
Prime Minister pending few form
alities which nobody desires to inn
pede. You will have heard about
the great excitement attending
Thursday nights debate and the
final vote. To my eyes the whole
business had theatrical and arti-
fetal look about it. One of our
papers speaks of the "fate of the
members trembling in the balance
just before the division. What non
sensel We all of us knew the result
days ago, and except for death or
illness not a single vote could be
affected.
But an ovation had to be got up
for Gladstone, and his entry after
the division was we'll timed for the
purpose He was kept back to the
last. Then lane was made for him
through the crowd and all his party
stood up and shouted. The Irish
men worked themselves into a gen
uine fever The old man walked to
his seat careworn and weary looking,
with faint deprecating gesture, as
much as to say: 80 not make all
this fuss about me: | am not worthy
of it," And then his son hurried
him off to bed.
1t was a crowded house. Every
seat was taken and lot OF members
were obliged to stand. New Nom
bers We're fussing around as if
they were about to decide the fate
of the universe. All this was a mat
ter of course. There was Hon. Ed
ward Blake, without his sombrero hat
out with an amazing display of shirt
front, sitting on the Irish benches
Many of the new Nationalists We're
there, wild and unfettered in cries
and general behavior, interrupting
Mr.. Chamberlain with yells and
groans, and later on, when mem
Der of the Government was foolishly
put up to speak, almost beside them
selves with rage.
There was Kerr Hardie with vel
low trousers, a brown flannel shir
and travelling cap, costume which
he never seems to change, even whel
he goes to bed. None of your clear
shirt nonsense for this gentleman
Mr.. Blake might lend him one o
two Of his majara shirt fronts thu
next time he drives down to thu
House with brass band in banl
holiday van with his portrait ex
hibited.
The Conservatives were all a
spruce as new pins, most of them il
evening dress and wearing gorgeou
flowers in their coats. There is
gentleman with an orchid rivalin;
Chamberlain's and another one witt
the green carnations which youni
dandies now affect, Balfour has
white rose, and Gladstone, opposit
him, sports a red flower Harcour
what's the matter with Harcourt
He fidgets about all through tn
night as though on gridirol
First he comes in and has Ions
animated talk with Gladstone, an
hn,, hoe D'n, hoe l.t,
another talk, and he is off again; BIT
he comes back, and seems as uneas
as man waiting to have toot
out.
Indeed, on the front of the GlaC
stonians there are no signs of jo
and victory. Morley is grave, eve
downcast. What, with the Wells
party, with their ultimatum, and IL
Layor party with theirs, and the tw
Irish sections with theirs and NJ
Gladstone yielding to the weight {
eighty-three years, what sort of
Government is possible? Would
be rash enough to insure its life ov,
1893? The rumor is that Harcou
does not want to take Office at a
Under the present circumstanc
Morley must be still less incline
Gladstone alone smiles when IL
figures are read out which proclai
him the successor of Lord Salisbur
A more funereal party returned fro
what is called victory | never can
across.
Why in the world Balfour shoul
at the last hour, put up our horse
friend Chaplin to speak no memb
can guess. The House was tired
debate and winding-up speech W
not required Poor Chaplin we
foundering into bog of o
speeches, extracts from blue book
and rakings and scrapings of Il
political dust heap. New membe
who had never seen him before pu
sued him with jeers, jibes and moe
ing laughter. His portly fgln