Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
HER MAJESTY SPEAKS.
Great Britain's Imperial Parliament
Formally Opened.
LIBERALS HASTEN TO DECLARE
That They Have No Confidence in the
Present Government.
GLADSTONE URGED TO DEFINE HIS BILL


completed last week, and this morning,
when the House met, the members were
summoned to the House of Lords, where
the speech from the throne, opening the
session of the Twenty-ffth Imperial Par
lament of Queen Victoria, was read. The
speech informed Her Majesty's Lords and
Gentlemen that by command of Her Ma
jesty the present Parliament has been as
sembled in obedience to the terms of Her
Majesty's proclamation of June %. by
which the late Parliament was dissolved.
Previous to that dissolution, the speech
added, the business Of the session was com,
pleted; therefore it is not necessary for
Parliament now to continue its session at
an unusual period of the year for the trans
action of financial or legislative business.
Her Majesty expressed the hope that when
Parliament meets again at the customary
season it will again direct attention to
measures of social and domestic improve
ment, and that it will continue to advance
in the path Of useful and bene6cent legisla-
tion, which has been so judiciously followed
in previous sessions
G adstone Takes the Oath.
Before the opening of the debate on the
address in reply to the speech from the
throne, MI. Gladstone entered the House
and took the usual oath administered to
members He was the recipient of hearty
cheers from his supporters.
Neither the speeches of Mr.. Barton in
moving the address, nor that of Mr.. Cross,
who seconded the address, attracted any
attention. The House was listless until Mr..
Herbert Henry Asquith. Gladstonian men,
Der for the East division of Fifeshire, rose
| to move the amendment declaring that the
House had no confidence in the Govern
ment. He was greeted with loud and pro-
longed cheering by the Liberals. E.
had met for the obsequies of dead major
ity The House ought not to daily over
practical question, but should as speedily
| as possible place in power Government
representing the decision of the country as
expressed at the polls.
Mr. Thomas Burt (Gladstonian), member
for Morpeth, Secretary of the Northumber-
land Miners Mutual Association seconded
the no confidence amendment. He con-
tended that the question of home rule for
ireland must dominate all other Questions
to which the Liberal party was pledged.
Some Defined Policy Wanted.
The Rt Hon. George j. Goschen, Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, said he hoped
the House would at least hear something
| definite about home rule.
Mr. Gladstone, he declared, could no
| longer shirk explaining his home-rule
scheme, nor could Sir William Vernon
| Harcourt evade unpleasant questions by
| going out of the House instead of respond
| ing to them
Mr. Justin Mccarthy said that the Irish
party expected that coercion would cease
when the Liberals came into power. If the
| Liberal Government home rule bill did not
satisfy the people of ireland there would
| be an end of it. conservative cheers. ]
| He believed In the sincerity of the Liberal
assurance that the home rule bill would be
kept in the front of their legislation. The
| Irish party also wanted an early measure
| for the relief of evicted tenants and an in
quiry into the cases of Irish prisoners
wrongfully convicted of offenses against the
| crown. They further desired that the term
| of imprisonment of other Irish prisoners be
| shortened
Mr.. John Redmond said be would sup
| port Mr.. AsQuith because he considered it
the duty of every Irish member to assist in
oustIng the present Government regardless
| Of the question whether they were likely to
| fare better at the hands of its successor.
| He could not assent in any wav 10 Mr..
Labouchere's suggestion to give the New
| castle programme precedence over the home
rule question. It might be possible to deal
out certain English reforms concurrently
| with home rule, but he would not consent
to any policy placing home rule in the
| stone responsible for the suggested delay of
the home rule question, but he desired to
remind the Liberals that nothing had been
heard of this delay during the six years the
Irish had co-operated with the Liberals and
assisted them to win in ''bye" elections
Redmond Wanted No Delay.
He could not support any measure look
ing to redistribution of political power
impairing in the slightest degree the in
fuence of Ireland. He hoped they would
not have to wait until February for the pro-
visions OF Mr.. Gladstone's bill It was use
less for the Liberal party to live In FOOLS
paradise. They were going to be placed in
power by irish votes and they must fulfill
their pledges. In conclusion he suggested
that the autumn session of Parliament
should deal with the evicted tenants and
the Irish political prisoners measures The
speech ELECTED much laughter and cheering
from the Conservatives
Mr.. Goschen, in continuing his speech,
denied that home rule was the paramount
question which had been submitted to the
country In the recent campaign, and de-
clared that it had occupied in large num-
Der of electoral addresses q very subordin-
nate place. [Cries of "Hear, hear."l The
Irish members seemed to think that they
had nothing to do but evict the present
Ministers in .order to get home rule.
[Cheers from the Irish members Did the
mover of the amendment to the address in
reply to the speech from the throne know
the policy OF his party regarding home
rule? Beyond the leader of the opposition
and some few of his followers nobody knew
the exact nature of the measure.
The country had not given the members
mandate on that question, as it had not
been before the country. The country was
against the principle of home rule. The
majority of Great Britain stood against the
Irish majority in demanding the repeal of
the Union. fCrles of "No.9'l, So, If home
rule was passed 1t would Be by the Irish
minority coereing the British majority.
[Cheers1.
If the Unionists were defeated by the
Irish vote, it would not be the final trial
Defeat would not mean the dispersion of
the Unionist forces The Unionists would
still remain rampant, against which the
forces of rapine and disorder would throw
themselves in vain. [Cheers1.
No Policy Found in the Spec oh.
In the House of Lords the Earl of Dem
bigh moved and the Earl of Powis seconded
the address in reply to the speech from the
throne. The Earl of Kimberley complained
that this was the first occasion that no
policy had been showed in the speech from
the throne There was nothing in the
speech, he declared, that could be criticised.
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