St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-28
The HOUSE IN A FUROR
Most Disgraceful Scene Ever
Witnessed in the
ENGLISH HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Chamberlain Attacks Glad
stone--O'Connor Replies
BY DER0UNCIRG HIM As JUDAS.
Curses, Yells and Gross In
suits Heard Everywhere.
BY DER0UNCIRG HIM As JUDAS.
MEMBERS HURLED OVER BENCHES

LONDON, July 27.-On the govern
ment programme 10 O'Clock this even
ing was the hour set tor the closure of
debate in committee OH the home rule
bill. The parts of the bill left over for
the discussions of last week and for the
divisions this evening were the new
financial clauses, the schedules
and the preamble. The galleries of the
house were filled with per-
sons eXpectant of an exciting
scene at the close Of the
committees laborS. Few members
were absent from the benches on the
floor of the house. The proceedings
early in the evening were tame enough.
John Clancy, Parnellite, for North
Dublin county, moved an amendment
to the effect that the imperial gov
ernment should guarantee to Ireland
$500, 600 annually during the provision
al period of six years.
Mr.. Gladstone declined to accept the
amendment. The financial scheme un-
der discussion, he said, provided fully
for the equitable. even liberal, treat
ment of the new Irish government. If
the estimates, which had been made
with the greatest care, were realized,
Ireland would have G5I2,000 annually
assured her. Mr. Goschen, chancellor
OF the eXchequer in the last Salisbury
cabinet, also spoke against Mr.. CIancy'5
motion. Obscure members continued
the debate until 9:45, or just fifteen
minutes before the closure was to be
applied. Then Joseph Chamberlain
rose TO deliver the final OrOadside of the
opposition. He was still smarting
Under the Lash
which Mr.. Gladstone swung on Tues
day evening, and spoke with correspond
ing bitterness. After a few scornfuI
words as to conduct of the ministers, he
began giving his opinion of the closure,
as applied by the government. The
members, he said. were about to wit
ness the last scene in a discreditable
farce. The debate on the financial
clauses had been a mere sham. The
IdQ SbOOU ONGI lElSllu
and foe alike, ready to let fall the
g i.lOt ne, without regard for JUS
tice or constitutional rights. The
irish members, as well as the UniOnists,
were anxious to discuss at length the
important financial questions presented
by the new clauses, but such discussion
was to be cut short. The bill had been
changed in its most vital features; still
no debate was regarded as necessary,
since whatever was altered the bill was
always found perfect by the adherents
of the prime minister. Jeers from the
Irish, cheers from the Unionists,
and counter cheers from the Lib
erals interrupted Mr.. Chamberlain at
Is point. He waited two or three
minutes before the confusion abated
sufficiently for him to speak without
effort. He then proceeded thus: 1.-The
prime minister calls black and his
adherents say it is good. The prime
minister calls white and they say 1t is
better. [Unionist laughter 1t is al
ways the voice of God. Never since the
time of Herod has there been such -"
Mr.. Chamberlain got no further. In
medIately after resuming his speech, he
had been warned by mutterings from
the Irish bench that
Storm Was Gathering.
He-could hardly have expected the
suddenness with which it broke, for
with his half-fnished reference to
Herod, there came from the Nationaiists
such a roar of Indignation as has not
been heard in the house since the DAYS
of ParneIl. Mr.. Chamberlain plainly
was startled, but he tried to talk on.
His voice was inaudible to the members
OH the next bench He turned towards
the Nationalists, and shrill yells of exc
Grafton sounded above the uproar j..
T. P. O'Connor sprang to his
feet, and leaning towards Mr.
Chamberlain, shouted Judas so
loudly that the epithet could be heard
throughout the house. The rest of. the
Irishmen took up the cry and for half a
minute shouted Judas in chorus.
Meantime the clock struck 10. The
chairman tried to put the closure, but
his voice could not be heard amid the
shouts of the Irish and the UnionisIs.
Then came scene unprecedented in
parliamentary history. Mr.. Mellor gave
in a weak voice the customary drec-
tiuns. The Conservatives, however,
fatty refused to quit the house. Weary
Gibbs, Gibson Bowles and w. Hanbury
shouted to the chairman that he must
first call Mr. O'COnnOr to order for hav-
ing called Mr.. Chamberlain names. Mr..
MellOr protested that he had not heard
the epithets in question. Nobody told
him what Mr.. O'COnnor had said, so he
sat helpless and unenIightened before
the house, while the members crowded
forward in excited groups, shaking their
fists and shouting their demands. Gibbs,
BOwIes and Hanbury got together, aud
to make themselves heard. shouted in
chorus at Mr.. MellOr: "Will you direct
that those words be taken DOWN."
Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Ed.
ward Clarke got hold of Mr.. Gibbs and
started him for
The Front Bench
that he might elucidate tine cause of the
row to Mr.. Mell0r. who was making
strenuous but vain efforts to learn what
the grievance of the Tory tribe was.
MIR. Gibbs tried TO go forward. but il
the general jostling and shouting he
was so pushed about and confused thai
he gave up his purpose, and Mr.. Mellol
remained uniformed. Meantime hall
Of the Unionists climbed TO the benches