The Irish standard., 1892-08-13
OLD MAN.
Gladstone Replies to the Queens
Speech and Outlines His
Home Rule Bill.
AN IMPORTANT UTTERANCE,
Ireland Will Have Full and Effective
Control in the Management OF
Her Own Affairs.

LONDON. Aug. 8.-The formalities OF
organizing the House of Commons were
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 fifth Imperial
Parliament of Queen Victoria was read.
The speech informed her majesty's
Lords and gentlemen that by command
of her majesty the present Parliament
has been assembled in obedience to the
terms of her Majesty's proclamation OF
June %, by which the late Parliament
was dissolved.
NOTHING FOR PARLIAMENT TO DO.
Previous to that dissolution, the speech
added, the business of the session was
completed; therefore it is not necessary
| for Parliament now to continue its ses-
sion at an unusual period of the year for
the transaction of financial or legislative
business.
Her Majesty expressed the hope that
when Parliament meets again at the GUS
tomary season it will again direct atten-
ton to measures of social and domestic
Improvement and that it will continue to
advance in the path of useful and bene-
fcent legislation which has been so judic-
iously followed at previous sessions.
! The Commissioners bearing the
Queens speech entered the House OF
Lords at o'clock and took their seats.
The usual notice to the House of Com
mons was given, and soon the Speaker,
attended by handful of members of
the Lower House, was ushered into the
chamber of the peers to listen to the
reading Of the speech.
After the speech was read both houses
took recess until o'clock. At o'clock
the House OF Commons reassembled.
Nearly all the members were present and
the galleries were crowded with visitors.
The Queens speech was again read to the
members. When the last portion of the
speech was read it was greeted with
groans by the Liberals.
Mr.. Dunbar Plnnket Barton (Coneer-
vative), member for Mid-Armagh, moved
the address IN reply to the Queens
speech.
Before the opening of the debate on
the address in reply to the speech from
the throne Mr.. Gladstone entered the
House and took the usual oath admins
tered to members. He was the recipient
of hearty cheers from his supporters.
The Rt. Hon. George J. Goschen,
Chancellor of the Exhequer, said he hop
ed the House would at least hear some
thing definite about home rule. Mr.. Glad
stone, 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 responding to
them.
LONDON Aug. 9.-The House of Com
mons was crowded to it's full capacity be-
fore the business of the day was COM
menced, as it was expected that Mr..
Gladstone would resume the debate on
the address in reply to the Queens bench.
His appearance in the house was the sig
nal for ringing cheers from his adherents
on the floor and his admirers in the gall
cries. When Mr.. Gladstone arose he was
greeted with loud and prolonged cheer
ing by the members of the opposition.
Mr.. Gladstone opened his speech by re-
ferring to the procedure of the govern
ment in departing from presidents in
not resigning when the verdict of the
country was against them. The House
had met, Mr.. Gladstone said, but they
did not know for what. The Queens
speech was read. Was it fact, he said,
that the judgment of the nation was
without appeal? Was the House of
Commons to fight the battles of the last
six years over again? Never had there
been great issue submitted to the coun-
try, that had been so fully discussed, as
the issue decided at the last general cleo
ton. The government was perfectly
aware of that. They knew we'll that a
majority of the House had come prepared
to give the effect to the verdict of their
constituents. They could not do other
wise. Turning to the matter of home
rule he said Mr.. Goschen had said that
home rule must be carried by an Irish
majority if it were carried at all. In
point of fact the majority in the House
was no more Irish than Scotch or Welsh.
Nobody had any right to distinguish
votes for the purpose of invalidating the
decision of the House or country. Such
an argument struck at the root of the
United Kingdom. There certainly was
sense in which Parliament was justified
in examining votes. That was when
scheme was proposed that affected fun
damentally any part of the country; for
example, it was customary to give effect