The Irish standard., 1893-07-08

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il last got down to business and ia
Sc the persistent opposition Of the Tories
and Liberal Unionists he will apply the |.
gag law so that the bill will pass the
committee stage on July 81. The gov
eminent majority is still large enough TO
carry the bill in the faoe OF all obstruc-I
ton. Since the passage OF the resolu- |
ton to curb the Tories BY applying the
closure, the two Irish sections have dis
continued their chickering's and will vote
solldly with the ministry. John Red
mond and his little party of eight will
not dare to carry their threat into exc
cution when the financial clanses are
reached, and even if they withdraw from
Gladstone and vote with the opposition
their votes will only reduce the majority
by which the bill will be carried. The
Gladstonians having majority OF q to
IS can afford to smile at the posturing OF
the member for Waterford and his fol-
lowers.
After the bill passes the committee
stage on the day appointed by Mr.. Glad
stone, which is July 81, it will have to 60
through the ordeal Of the report stage
and the third reading, and that will oc-.
cupy up to Aug. - when it finally
passes the House of Commons and is
sent up to the House Of Lords. 1t is ex-
pected that the hereditary legislators in
the upper chamber will reject the bill
with disdain, despite the fact that the
elected representatives in the lower
house have spent three months in per-
fecting the measure by adopting Tory
amendments. The bill will be sent back
again to the Lords after q second read
ing in the Commons, and again it will be
rejected CONTEMPORARY by that aristo-
cratic body. What the Gladstone min
istry will do then is to wind up the ses-
sion as speedily as possible and call an
extra session for October when new
registration bill and other popular meas
ures will be introduced and passed. The
Home Rule bill will doubtless be intro
duced again next February or March
and will pass the house for the third
time. Again, it will be sent up to
the Lords who will either reject
lit as before or render it worth
less by pernicious amendments. Then
will follow an appeal to the country,
and the present party, will be reelected
by larger majority than before, from
the fact that the registration laws
passed in October will extend the fran
ohiee and greater vote will be polled in
consequence. The recent elections indi-
cate that the feeling in England is in
creasing in favor of Home Rule for
Ireland. When the bill is again trium-
phantly passed and sent up to the Lords,
they will not dare to reject it. The
Duke of Devonshire, formerly Lord
Harrington, said in a recent speech:
''All that the House Of Lords claims or
will claim to do is to enable the people
of this country to express themselves in
final Judgment upon this bill when it
has assumed complete shape, and not
the vague and indefinite form in which
this policy has hitherto been yelled.
And to the judgment of the people,
which will then be an instructed judg-
ment, as it cannot be now, an informed
Judgment, as it cannot be now, we in the
House OF Lords shall leave the result
with perfect confidence"
Such language as this from one of the
bitterest opponents OF the measure is q
sure sign that the Lords will weaken, as
they did on former occasions, and re-
luctantly pass the bill. Everything at
present writing looks hopeful for the
Irish cause, and if the program. outlined
by Gladstone Is carried out successfully,
the promise made by John Morley that
the Irish Parliamentwil open about the
end Of 1894 will be fulfilled.
The late Admiral Tryon, who went
down with the Victoria, was direct de-
scendant OF Gov. Tryon. the Colonial