St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-01
MR.DILL0N'S DISCOURSE
ELOQUENT SPEECH ON HOME RUEf,
F0R IRELAND.
Present Home Rule Bill Declared
to Be Great Charter of Liber-
tieslfor the Irish PeopIe-Dem-
ocracy of England and Ire
land Will March Shoulder to
Shoulder.

LONDON. Aug. 31-Numerous GEES
tons were put to the government dur
ing today's session of the house of COM
mons in regard to Siam, and all of them
gave evidence of the dissatisfaction
which exists in England at the govern
ment's hardness in effecting an under
standing with France in regard to Siam.
Among the members who Intercepted
the government on the subject were Sir
Charles Dixie, Sir Richard Temple and
Viscount George Richard CurZon.
Sir Edward Grey, parliamentary sec
rotary to the foreign Office, in reply,
said that Lord Dufferin, British am
bassador to France, would return to
Paris next week and then the negotia-
tions with France would be resumed.
So far. explained Sir Edward, the gov
eminent had relied upon the assurances
of the, French government that the IN
dependence of Siam would not be in
terfered with.
MI Gladstone announced that the
government had determined, at the
close Of the debate on supply. to adj
journ parliament until November for
the purpose of proceeding with bust
ness. This announcement was greeted
with loud cheers from the ministerial
benches.
The debate OH the third reading Of
the home rule bill was then resumed.
+ Sir Charles Russell. the attorney gen.
eral, made long speech in
Defense of the Bill.
Right Hon. David Robert Plankett,
for TlubIin TJniuarr;t,, ,,;oa,
Ously attacked the bill, saying that the
government had been beaten in its ar
gument ana had now fallen back on the
closure gag and guillotine.
The feature of the evenings sitting
was speech by John Dillon. Mr.
Dillon was loudly cheered when he
rose to speak. In the course of an elo-
quent speech Mr.. Dillon made an an
nouncement which will offset John
Redmond's criticism that the home rule
bill could not be regarded as final set
tiement of the Irish question, and which
the Liberals showed their appreciation
OF by heartily cheering.
Mr.. Dillon denied the assertion of Mr..
Redmond that the bill would settle
nothing. On the contrary, ne held, and
was not afraid to maintain on any pub
lie platform, not only in Ireland, but in
the United States. Canada and Aus
tralia, that the bill. so far as settling
nothing was concerned, was a great
charter of liberties for the Irish people
He accepted it in that sense. When he
heard men talk OF finality he wanted to
know what was meant. Upon certain
details of tue measure the
Irish Party
differed from the government, but they
took the bill as whole, and if by
finality it was meant that the people of
Ireland, viewing the measure as
whole, would accept the bill in good
faith. he believed it would be so accept
ed. The distrust which now existed be-
tween the peoples of Ireland and Eng
land would soon be succeeded by trust
and confidence. Whatever the house of
lords might do with the bill, its passage
through the house of commons would
mark an epoch in history which would
never be undone. The democracy of
two countries would i'll the future ad-
vance with confidence in each other for
the first time. The millions of ireland
would march shoulder to shoulder with
the millions of England whatever the
house of lords did. Such combination
would be irresistible. The bill was
bound to become law in time.
MIR. Gladstone's announcement in re-
HoIu W Sutuulu oCoSlOu was
discussed in the Hobbies after the adj
jOurnment. The general belief was
that the government had decided to
move closure on supply il order TO in
sure an early adjournment.
The meeting of the cabinet today was
entirely devoted to the discussion of the
programme for the remainder of the
present session and for the autumn
session.
The Associated Press correspondent
learns that majority of the cabinet
are adverse to the application of closure
except in case of extreme necessity.
1t is also learned that the resolution
which will be presented by the govern
ment in the house of commons tomor-
row will not fix limit of time within
which the votes on supply must be dis
posed of.
The Conservatives are sparing 10
effort to make capital out of John Red
mond's speech, in which he said that
the Irish regarded the home rule bill as
only temporary and provisional and by
no means final settlement of the
question involved.