St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-12
DID IT AT MIDNIGHT.
Gladstone OverthroWs the
Salisbury Government at
Midnight.
He Gets a Clean Majority Of
Forty ON the Motion Of
"No Confidence"
The Excitement in the House
Of Commons the Greatest
in Many Years.
Salisbury to Resign Today
New Ministry to Be Formed
Saturday.

0dCUfudye
LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE division in
The house of commons tonight on the
motion of Mr.. Herbert Henry Asquith
(Gladstonian). member for the East di-
vision of Fifeshire, of mo confidence"
in the government, was carried by
vote of $50 to SO. The scene in the
and decisive vote on the address has not
been equaled in interesting and
exciting features since the SIM
liar crisis of the home = rule
debate in 1889, when Mr.. Gladstone.
now victorious. was overthrown. Every
inch of available space on the floor was
occupied and some of the members had
TO find seats in the galleries and even to
speak from those elevated and distant
positions. Every English member was
present, and the total number of ab-
SenteS was only thirteen. The visitors
who crowded the outsiders galleries
were we'll repaid for their at
tendance by witnessing one of
She peaceful revolutions by which En-
gland overthrows one set of rulers and
sets UP another. Though Herbert Glad
stone declares that his father has fully
Recovered His EEealSsl,
and that the stories of his weakness are
inventions of malicious political enc
mics, and though the British Medical
journal, on the authority of Sir Andrew
Clarke, states that Mr.. Gladstone is
sound in body and mind and able to
work as any man of his age, nev-
ertheless the aged statesman today
looked pale and distressed and
sank into his seat as though exhausted
He was nervous and irritable. The
light from the opposite windows an
noyed him, his eyes being still weak
from the effects of the injury sustained
To ohe of them during the campaign in
Scotland. At signal from him the at
tendantS closed the windows and drew
the curtains. During most of the de-
bate Mr.. Gladstone listened with his
eyes closed, keeping his hand to his ear
in attention to what was being said
Mr.. Chamberlain never came so near to
losing control as in his rage at the tao
tics employed by Tim Healy to prevent
him from delivering a speech. The
Brummagem statesman's face was al
most llvid. He heaped denunciations
upon Healy's head. Healy smiled sar-
donicaily, burying most of the diatribe,
but when Chamberlain declared that
Healy was person that would insult
any man, and then, pausng, added
with Offensive Emphasis,
cor any woman" the face of the Irish
member underwent sudden change
and became llyid with suppressed rage.
The Tories yelled with delight at Chanl-
berlain's home thrust, and kept UP the
shouting until they were hoarse. After
Chamberlain's speech he and Lord
Randolph Churchill were seen chat
ting together in the lobby-the first tine
they have been known to converse
i'll years. The Tories were plainly
chagrined at their failure to eXtort
replies from the Liberals. The latter
were content to do very little talking
and to rely upon their votes. When the
speaker rose to put the question on Mr.
ASQuith'S motion he was answered with
thunderous volume of ayes and noes
from the respective sides of the house.
The strangers having withdrawn from
the precincts of the chamber. the
speaker repeated the usual formula of
putting the question, and was again
greeted with sustained ana vehement
replies. The house
Divided at Midnight.
When Mr.. Gladstone returned from
the lobby the whole liberal. party rose
and cheered him. The tellers appeared
at 1925 a. N. with the paper containing
the numbers showing the result of the
division, and handed the paper to Ar
mold Morley, the Liberal whip. This
was the signal for volley of Liberal
town." Down with BalfQurism,''
etc, and it was some time be-
fore Mr.. Morley was able to
announce the figures. The result
announced was for the motion, $50:
against the motion, 310." Then there
was fresh display OF enthusiasm. The
noise having subsided. Mr.. Balfour and
the whole body OF Conservatives rose.
and, amid prolonged acclaims. Mr.. Bal
four moved that the house adjourn
until Thursday next. The motion was
agreed to. If tonight's proceedings in
parliament had not been invested with
the historic interest attached to
the fall of the government, the house
would not have tolerated the protracted
dullness of the debate after Mr. Cham
berlain spoke. But for some minor
members Of the opposition seizing a
chance to get hearing the house would
have divided before the dinner hour.
The gravity of the occasion was seen in
the crowds waiting in the palace yard
till past midnight, the groups filling
the lobbies and
Packed in the Galleries
within the house. For the first time
since the night IN 1866, when Mr.. Glad
stone first introduced home rule. chairs
had 10 be brought in to seat the mem
bers blocked out of the galleries. For
the first time in the history of the Brit
lsh parliaments did the members muster
their full strength within thirteen.
The peers galleries were well
occupied. The diplomatic gal
lery was so full that Messrs
Lincoln, the American minister, and
Hatsfeldt, the German ambassador. who
arrived late. found seats with some diff
Guilty. AS the night wore on, members
got restless and interrupted every
speaker with cries of divide. diyide.H
They wandered YEARLY in and out of
the house and sent protests to the Whips
for a vote without delay. But the
WHIPS difficulty was that there we're
several members who wnra unahia