The morning call., 1892-08-10
Fhe Policy Of the Liberal Leaders
Outlined.
CONE RULE TO Be CONSIDERED FIRST.
Eeisrm Measures to Be IntrOduted-BalfOur Re
plies for The C0n@rTatiTeS-R Redmond
Speaks for the Irish Members.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

LONDON, Aug. e-1n the House OF COM
mons to-day the first matter taken up was
The case of Egan. the Invincible, sentenced
to Imprisonment under the crimes act.
The Home Secretary said he could not
hold out hopes for Egan's release soon.
Lowther, the Parliamentary Secretary OF
the Foreign Office announced that the
British East Africa Company had in
siructed its officers to leave Uganda by
August 81.
Gladstone then began his speech against
the Government He said: THE Govern
ment have departed from all precedents In
not resignIng when the verdict Of the couu-
try was against them. The House has now
met. But what for2 The Queens speech
tells Us nothing. Is the House of Commons
to fight tie battles of the last six years over
sgaln? Never has a great issue submitted
TO the country been so fully discussed as the
Issue decided at the last general election" I"
Continuing, Gladstone said Goschen's re-
mark that home rule must be carried ont
by the Irish majority if carried out at all.
was not pertinent. as the majority In the
house was no more Irish than Scotch or
Nelsh. Such an argument struck at the
FOOT OF the constitution of the United King
dom. The Conservatives said that in the
speeches OF the Liberals home rule was not
always prominent The verdict of the
people had shown that the country meant
II 10 De prominent and therefore put an
end 10 the present Government. He said
the coercion bill ought not to be retained On
the statute-b book longer than required By
parliamentary usage.
The Conservatives Scored.
Gladstone credited the present Govern
nlent win aversion 10 the national debt,
but complained that they had Inflicted on
lrnT and crras
tended reparstion by local government
bill too limited 10 satisfy Irish wants or
oneT any solution OF the Irish trouble He
acknowledged that the House must have
some light upon the future, but it was not
possible for the Liberal Government TO saw
what measures they would submit TO Par
hament SIX months hence. In regard to the
suggested holding of the session In Novem-
Der. be said any Government taking that
course would show an inadequate sense of
the magnitude OF Its duty and of the va
Flety of subjects that it had to deal with"
Ireland tor years had been in the fore
front OF the battle and still held that posi-
ton. The principles of his home rule bill
were pretty well known. By its provisions
there would be full and effectual main-
tensnce Of imperial supremacy, while Ire
land would be given the conduct of her own
affairs. Irish representation in the Com
mons was also contemplated under certain
conditions.
aho nome Rule pleasures.
As to the form In which the principles
would be EN- bodied, It was the duty of the
Liberals to select the best, but not until they
had been placed in power For seven years
this bill had received his first and absorb
Ing attention, and would so continue till the
end. The House would pass the bill giving
Ireland self-g0Vernment and il would then
go TO the Lords. Ha would not argue upon
the probability Of the Lords rejecting
the bill The obligations of the Libe-
raj Government would utterly forbid
its aequiescence in the rejection Of the obli-
gatiOus 10 promote settlement of the great
subject.
He said the various measures of reform
which the Liberals had endeayored 10 pass
while In the opposition represented the
essential character of the Liberal policy.
In regard 10 the evicted tenants Gladstone
expressed the hope that in the autumn
voluntary arrangement bet tSSn landlord
and tenant would Obyiate the necessity for
such legislation as would become inevitable
IL no arrangements were made.
In concluding MS spef ch Gladstone re-
CURED to the Conservative argument that
the Irish majority were trying to coerce
England. He held that such was the
strength OF England In relation to other
kingdoms that she could never be eoerced
By them.
BsIfour's InterrogatOriss.
Balfour followed Gladstone. He MAIN
tanned that the Commons had 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 Gov
eminent might be in the minority. Butwhat
was the majority? Had that motleygroup the
confidence of the House? Before the Gov
eTDment resigned they had a right to ask
what were the conditions under which the
alliance between the Liberals and the Irish
would be maintained; what conditions
there were between Nationalist who had
been squared and those who had not been
squared and. what demands had been made
upon the Liberals when they came into
power. If disturbances arose in Ireland
was disorder to have free handP Was it
part of the new compact that Daily and the
other convicted dynamIters should be let
loose upon the world?"
LIeutenant-C0lonel Edward James San
deTson Conservative made a bantering
speech, In which he charged that Rome
would govern Irish affairs, saying that the
chief member of Gladstone's Cabinet would
Ia reality be Archbishop Walsh.
Redmond Speaks for Ireland.
Redmond predicted that the Irish Parlia-
ment would be as free from interference on
the part of Rome as from interference on
the part OF the British Parliament.
Interest in to-nighrs debate was height
eped by curiosity as to how Gladstone
would respond to the demands formulated
by Mccarthy and Redmond for assurance
on the subject of the early suspension of
the coercion act, the relief of evicted ten
ants in Ireland and the release Of the i'm
prisoned Irish dynamiteEs.
The talk in the lobby charged Mccarthy
with an attempt TO embarrass Gladstone,
but as Gladstone proceeded with his speech
1t became evident that Mccarthy had
arranged with the Liberal leader TO pro-
pound series Of demands sounding rather
portenious but requiring no unusual dex-
terity on the part of the grea test Parliament
tary tactician living TO dispose Of