St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-01
TORY TACTICS.
They Will Offer Amendments to
the Home Rule Bill.

LONDON, April 30. - The Unionist
leaders plainly were intent upon game
of bluff when they held their first con-
ference at Devonshire house this week.
Neither their resolution at this meeting
nor the similar decision of the Irish
lOyaliStS to abstain from proposals 10
amend the home rule bill III committee
will be followed by the opposition. The
mock herOicS spoken by the English
UnioniStS, and repeated more dramat-
ically by Col. SaunderSOn and his fire
eaters, concerning the utter unamend-
able badness of Mr.. GladStOne'S meas
ure, were intended for the provinces
and the Orangemen, but lacked the in
dOrsement of the men who fathered
them. The llumbug was apparent at
once to Liberals, Radicals and National
lists, and evoked abundant ridcule from
the press of the three allied parties.
Even the more earnest members OF
the parliamentary opposition depre-
Gated the folly implied by the declara-
tons, and began Immediately to call
for plan of action more cOnSOnant
with the gravity OF the issue. Their
protests against covering the attacks OF
the Unionists under a palDable mask
were so earnest that at the second OPP
position conference the decision of the
first conference, for whose action the
Balfour contingent bore the response
bility, was virtually, although not form
ally, reversed. Lord Randolph Church
ILL.,, maintains his position still III the
shadow of the leadership, had felt
meantime the party pulse and
was ready with q vast number
of presidents, 10 justify the persist
,f Of
most important instance which
parliamentary history afforded him
for his purpose was the struggle in the
house of commons against the first re-
form bill, which Lord Randolph de-
scribed as a much more abhOrrent meas
ure than even the home rule bill. In
that struggle the Tory leaders fought
for seventy days, proposing amendment
after amendment, and eXhausting the
arguments and elOquenCe of every
speaker in the party. As soon as it was
decided to let Lord RandOlph's cOunsels
prevail, Mr. Balfour, Mr.. Chamberlain
and Sir henry James set abOnt prepar-
ing the motions which will be produced
in committee as the amendments in
dOrsed by the Unionlsts.
The bill will enter the committee
stage next Thursday. How long it will
remain there few dare venture to pre-
dict Already the number of amend
ments drafted is almost 1000, although
the UniOnists are far from eXhauSting
their list. The Parnellites and Liberal
ties and Radicals will propose hundreds
of alterations III the bill. Only the anti
Parnellites have abstained from preDar
ing motions. They have held their
peace. while the Parnellites and a few
Libarels have prepared the work for
them. The ministry calculate that the
enormous and daily increasing number
of amendments will keep the bill in
committee for three months, and cOnSe
quently talk of a winter session has be-
gun already. 1t will be impossible that
the home rule bill reaches the house OF
lords before August; some say it will
not leave the commons earlier than Oc-
tOber.
A large number of residents of Ulster
belonging to the Presbyterian and Uni
tartan denominations repudiate the res
olution in opposition to Irish home rule,
which was sent to Lord Salisbury i'll the
name of and as representing the opln-
ions of ProtestantS of Ulster These
home rule Professionals have therefore
caused a communication to be sent to
Prime Minister Gladstone expressing
confidence in Mr.. Gladstone and his
policy in regard to Ireland.