Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-14
HOME RULE DEFEATED.

Come ut Pre1ent-Lor0 S1Sispury -.
gument.
LONDON, Sept. 9.-Although it was
geneally understood that the house OF
lords would reject the home-rule bill
last night, the house did not all up un-
Til after the dinner hour, popular In
terest centering in the speech OF the
marquis of Salisbury, who was not ex-
pected to rise until towards midnight
Lord Salisbury said he felt that there
was no satisfaction in occupying the
position he occupied-that of the last
person to speak against home rule in
the course of the present session. But
although it was position of much dis
fiction, it had many inconvenience.
In particular the ground of debate had
already been SO fully occupied that
there was little now left for him to
say. Throughout the debate one ques-
ton was constantly present.in,his mind
was: Why had the governmet intro
duced such bill? On tlifs point
the house had received no sufficient
enlightenment. The peers who had
defended the bill had made able
speeches without much reference to
the real nature of the bill. The lord
chancellor, Lord Herschell, had virtu-
ally told them that he did not quite be-
lieve with the government on one sub
ject- In dealing with the retention OF
Irish members at Westm inster-which
was ~ outrage on England SO enor-
nous and SO grotesque that it was
surprise that it had ever found . place
in proposal emanating from respon-
sible government-the~ lord chancellor
had declared that he was not in
clined to associate himself with SO
desperate clause, but would
prefer some other arrangement. Then
in dealing with the abandonment OF
landlords, the lord chancellor had adj
mitted that their fate would be terri
BILE. but said they had brought it on
themselves. Finally, the lord cham
cellor had finished his account of his
own intellectual position by protest.
ing with vigor thoroughly severe
against any body desiring to know the
real opinion of any cabinet member
upon cabinet bill
The secretary of foreign affairs
lord Roseberry) also had avoided the
burning subjects underlying the gov
ernment's policy. The problem which
the foreign secretary seemed to have
set himself to solve was how in an
hours speech to avoid giving pledges
that might be inconvenient in future,
and he had solved the problem with
absolute success. Laughter.
Much had been said of the benefits
of autonomous government, but had
fhoro hoon for a Statesmen
bold enough to propose that an auton-
omous colony should send eighty MEM
bers to the imperial parliament repre-
bound by no responsibility with re-
spect to the possible application of
laws that parliament passed? The alb
surdity of such q position was enough
to send man to Bedlam. How could
they get rid of the Irish questions in
the presence of eighty members seek
ing to make themselves market
able wares in negotiations with
the ministers? Would these men. sent
by Archbishop Walsh, be quiet on ques-
lions of religion and education? What
appeared to shine visibly through all
Arguments was that home rule was q
policy of despair. The liberals had
said: "You have failed; we do not
know how tc succeed; but we will try
something that nobody has tried be-
fore.
What moral or political right had
any government to embark on such an
experimental policy in Ireland, divided
to her base by party conflicts, which,
during seven centuries English rule
had rather increased than diminished.
Representative government never -four
ished on a soil where homeogenity
was wanting. This policy would be
necessary in dealing with ordinary
men, and more than made necessary
in dealing with a race that for cerk
lures had hated England.
Lord Salisbury reminded the house
of the opinion the country held before
this terrible change occurred, when
the liberal party was healthy in the
hands of the liberal politicians and not
in the hands of deserters. Then, he
said, however much they might hare
disagreed on local and international
questions, he felt sure that on all inn
perial questions their hearts had
beaten true to the empire as had the
hearts OF conservatives. Macaulley.
when he sat with the liberals, and
Gladstone when he sat with the
conservatives [laughter], had said that
they would regard the repeal of the
union as fatal to the empire, and would
never consent to it. If England had
told their lordships that she wanted
this horror the case might have been
different; but he bcliefed that to be
impossible. AS long as England was
true to herself, she would never allow
this atrocious, this mean, this treach- |
erous revolution.
Their lordships would be untrue to |
the duty devolved upon them from q
splendid ancestry and untrue to their |
highest traditions if they failed tore
ject the bill. loud cheers.
The lord chancellor then put the mo-
ton for the second reading Of the bill.
He caused some merriment by saying: I
81 think the contents. have it. !" Very |
loud and determined was the rival cry: |
1.-THE noncontents have it.
The house divided at midnight, and
the result was the rejection of the mo-
ton by vote of 40 to Al.
Important Nominations.
WASHINGTON. Sept. G.-The president
sent to the senate the following NOM
nations:
Albert S. Willis. of Kentucky. to be
to Hawaii.
Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey,
ambassador extraordinary and minis
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