St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-11
AVERIEU A REvULl,
Sections Resignation From
Parliament a Godsend to
Premier Gladstone. rt-4
Irish Members Distracted by
the Rupture in the
Party.
Ministers Are Charged With
Treaehery by Irish Repre-
sentatives. Is
Unionists Delighted With the
Trouble Among the Ma
tionaliSts.
LoNDox. June 1o.-The c

Tim Healy and Thomas Sexton has
been gOdsend to the government.
The exciting scenes in the conference
of the Irish parliamentary party Friday
and Mr.. SeXton's subsequent retirement
from his seat for North Kerry have so
distracted the attention OF the lrlSn
members that they have little time 10
make protests against Mr.. Gladstone
recent concessions to the UnlonlStS.
Had it not been for this diversion an
immediate open revolt in the lrIsn
ranks against the government policy
would have been unavoidable. justin
Mccarthy. leader of the anti-Parnellites,
stated the case plainly in an interview
with the premier Just before the confer
ence met. He told Mr.. Gladstone that
the discomfort of the Irish members had
been reused to the point at which the
leaders had become pnwerless to pre-
serve discipline unless the government
should give the utmost explicit assur-
ances that no further concessions to the
Unionists would be made.
The specific cause of this potential
revolt is the number of amendments to
clause of the home rule bill, which
have been accepted by Mr.. Gladstone
from UnioniSt members. Nine such
amendments to limit the powers of
The Dublin Legislature
nave been conceded. One of the nine
was carried even against the votes of
seventy-f0ur IriShmen. Most of the
Irish members attribute the repeated
yielding OF the government to lis enc
mics TO mere lack of backbone. A few.
however. go SO far as TO suspect treacil-
cry within the cabinet. In informal
consultation with ministers in the lobby
the Irish leaders have advanced the
argument that. as the home rule bill Is
the outcome OF a definite agreement
between them aud the government,
no alterations ought TO be made
by the ministers without their first
seeking the assent of the Nation
alistS. This argument Mr. Mccarthy
was commissioned by his colleagues TO
lay before Mr. Gladstone with special
emphasis. and he did SO.-In reply 20 the
warning that the acceptance OF further
UniOniSt amendments would be the Sig
nal for Irish hOstIlities. Mr.. Gladstone
authorized Mr.. Mccarthy to tell the
conference that decisive measures
WGuld be adopted to close the committee
stage of the bill by the middle OF July.
How the premier proposes TO do this ID
the extinction of UniOnist ObstructiOH.5
he did not say HealsO avoided giving
anV assurances concerning the accept
ance OF future amendments from tie
UniOnistS.
Mr. McCaIthv'S report of his cOnyer-
satIOn with the premier was received
with some demonstrations OF IlI-temper
by the conference. and majority or the
members expressed themselves as favor
ing immediate measures
To Compel the Government
to act without delay and in committee
with explicit assurances. Erhey also
emphasize the action or Gladstone. in
close concert with the Irish leaders.
that IS.In accepting the dictatiOn OF the
NatIOnaliStS as to the future course Of
the home rule bill. Mr.. Mccarthy prom
lsed to inform Mr.. Gladstone OF the
sentiment of the meeting. but his
pledge, hardly given. was forgotten as
the discussion turned TO the Sexton af-
fair, which quickly stirred all the ami
mosItIes latent among the members, and
evoked q scene repeatedly on the verge
OF violence. 1t was such quarrel as
disturbed the last Parnell conferences.
NOminaliy the trouble concerned the
control or the party newspaper organs.
Timothy Healy represents the clerical
element on the board of the Freeman's
Journal, and at all points in Irish pol
ieies he is in close touch with the priests.
Thomas Sexton. on the other hand. rep
resents the secular faction OF: the ma
tiOnalists. He joined the board of the
Freeman'S journal at the reQueSI of
John Dillon and Justin Mccarthy. At
the conference yesterday. however. Mr..
Mccarthy was una bly, 10 rally major
ity to tine support OF his prOtege's pol
icy in the directorate. Mr.. Sexton had
told his friends repeatedly that he
would retire from parliament in case a
majority should not support him in his
final contest with the Healy faction.
The threat was
Regarded as a Bluff.
Now that his retire ment is an accom-
plIShed fact. the majority OF the DarIId-
mentary party regret that he was driven
TO the wall. Only the immediate friends
of Tim Healy rejoice in Mr.. Sexton's
retirement. for they think that in the
future they will hold absolute sway in
the councils of the party. The ability
of the HealyiteS TO rule the parliament
airy party viii be finally proved or dis
proved at the conference of Irish MEN,
berS next week Should the clerical
faction again demonstrate that ii Is in
control. other members of the party are
likely to follow Mr.. Sexton into private
life. HealY already demands that John
Dillon resign from the directorate OF
the FreemanfS Journal. More trouble
Is brewing also among other minor
groups OF the party. which, therefore,
will be kept too busy maintaining its
own integrity to devote much attention
to the governments action towards the
ObstruetiOnistS- So
The UniOnists are delighted with
the rupture in the Nationalist party at
the moment when s0lidity OF the party
was regarded as al-limportant- They
say that the temporary relief of the
government amounts to little in COM
paris0n with the trouble which the
party says will cause the mystery III
the near future. A change in leader
ship, if accOmplis he'd, will, in fact. en-
barrdSs MT. Gladstone, as he has been
accustomed to consulting with Sexton
and Dillon frequently while ignoring
Healy. whom he heartily diSlikes.
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