The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-07
A FIGHT FOR HOME RULE
GLADSTONE SPEAKS ON SECOND
READING OF Tua BILL.
Tho Government Determined Not to

The Government Determined Not to
Amend the Eill in Any Important
Regpsc.-The history Of thu Home
Rule Movement Reviewed ~ sir
Hicks Beach Moves Rejection of the
Bill.
House of Commons were full, but the house
itself was not crowded when MIR. Gladstone
arose this afternoon at 4 40 O'Clock to move
the second reading OF the bill t. establish
home rule in Ireland Mr.. Gladstone said
that the government had no intontion Of
amending the bill as presented except in
some minor particulars. He earnestly de-
sired to bring home to the mind of tho
housa the question whom this great contro-
versy was to end. [Cheers. He did not ad
dress the question to the opposition
in spirit of assumed supe-
riority, but he would rather
press it earnestly upon their hearts ana un-
derstandIng as a matter ia which both sides
we're equally Interested. For many years
the question of Irish homo rule had blocked
the way Of legislation. the liberal party
had offered n solution, hut when they asaed
opponents where all this was to end, thoy
rarely obtaiued an answer. Certainly the
opposition hal not yet venUured to point
out process whereby the greatest Of irish
questions should be decided, apart from the
way in which the home rule bill proposed
to decide IL. [Cheers Mr.. Gladstone pro
ceeded with the historic development Of the
rise and the Causes of the demand for Irish
home rule.
SPECIAL LEGISLATION INEVITABLE.
Mr.. Gladstone aaid that tho progros3 Of
events in the past century had proved the
fallacy OF the argument offered by ihe up-
ponent3 Of home rule that time ana patience
would soc Ireland paciiied without special
legislation. Never was there time when
the Irish people were 80 near to acceptance
of the union as during the grst twenty-nine
years after the act Of the union had been
passed, ana the reason VAS not because they
loved it, but because they
were troddon under soot they wished for
peace and they had no gem
uine representatives. in the i'm
peral parliament. AS soon as the voice
OF Ireland was heard IN parliament the con-
stitutlonal movement for self-government
commenced, and 1t had never ceased, ana
would continue until olf-gOyernment
should be granted. 70 all unions but one
principle can be applied and that Is whether
they require permanent maintenance by
force. If when the force disappears, har~
mony remAius, the union is good Ii the
maintenance OF the union by force, actual
or in reserve, i8 necessary, the value Of the
union is Questionable.
Mr. Gladstone referred to the retention Of
the Irish members in the imperial phrlia-
ment. During the last sixty years, he said,
twelve instances had occurred in the record
of cabinets being displaced by IA vote Of
censure. Among these instances there was
not case where tho question at issue was
purely British eight having been imperial
and four IRISH questions. Therefore, he
thought less inconvenience ought to be ex-
pected from the Irish members voting on
the Irish questions than had been antici-
pated.
THE QUESTION OF FINANCE.
Regarding the question of finance, Mr..
Gladstone admitted that it was no easy
matter to disentauglo the finances of coun-
tries associated for the last ninety years.
1t could not be done In any wGy free from
Inconvenience, but the trouble was mere
dust in the balance compared with the vital
Importance OF the great purpose Of aIming
at the real union Of the two countries and
the consolidation OF the empire The bill
carefully guarded the possibility # in
crenslHg the Imperial expenditure, whereof
Ireland ought to pay her share, in the event
Of war and other causes. If the house was
not satisfied with the sscurisy offered un-
der tho existing fuance clauses of the bill
tion and reca5t the clause objected TO.
Until recent period the question be-
tween Great Britain and ireland had been
one between class and nation. Now it was
between nation and nation. There was NJ
more melancholy spectacle on earth than
the spectacle Of a wrong inflicted by one na-
tlon on another. On the other hand there
was nothing nobler than to see a nsti5n
deliberately set upon theremoval of injustice
and deliberately determined to break with
whatever remained.
HICKS-BEACH MOVES REJECTION.
The rejection of the home rule bin was
moved by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, presi-
dent OF the board Of trade in the last Sails
bury cabinet He taunted Mr.. Gladstone
with having made long excursions into Irish
history when he was expected TO answer the
multidudinous criticisms OF the bill. Since
the character Of the measure bad become
known the most intense autagoni5m bad de-
veloped against it. In large part of Ire
land tho people we're irrecOncilably opposed
TO oil the details as we'll as to the principle
Of the bill The north of Ireland rang with
protests against the prime minister's agite-
tion. aud he would not even pause in his
RETROSPECT to answer the arguments OF the
men behind It, The prime minister had
said that the homo rule bill bod been
before the country seven years. This was
not true Before the bill vas Introduced
last February only the veguest statements
as TO its proposals had been made The as
sertion was made frequently that Ireland
demanded ho Q rule, that her electors had
accepted home rule. This whs only partly
true The majority Of the Irish electors had
demanded and accepted 1t, but a large and
determined minority had decided TO have
none OF If. Vertheless, admitting uuaai-
nous sentiment in Ireland for home rule,
the proposal for the dissolution of the union
was rejected by the other party to the bar
gain. majority Of the electors az Great
Britain we're convinced that parliament
once persuaded to tek5 the fateful step now
proposed could never retrnce it without
plungiug the country into the horrors Of a
civil war. [Cheers.l
In p5achunent Advised,
AugTIy, TEX, April 6.-This evening