The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-28
A RIOT IN THE COMMONS.
Members Engage in a Free for
All Fight.
SEVERAL ROUNDS FOUGHT.
Heads Are Punched and Eyes BIackened
in Prize Ring Style.
Time Was Called by O'Connor, the Belig-
erents Entered the Ring and Genuine
Siugging Match Ensued-Cause,
the Home Rule Bill.

riot in the house of commons tonight,
the scenes enacted there being unprece-
dented in parliamentary history. Ten
O'Clock this evening was the hour set for
closure of debate in the commons on the
home rule bill. The early part of the
evening was tame enough, being occupied
by obscure members. At 9:45, Joseph
Chamberlain arose to deliver his final
broadside OF opposition. lie was still
smarting under the lash administered by
Gladstone Tuesday evening and spoke
with much bitterness, giving his opinion
of closure as appealed by the government.
He was frequently interrupted by jeers
from the Irish and cheers from his own
side. After one period of interruption he
proceeded.
1.-THE prime minister calls sblack' and
his adherents say, it lis good; he calls
white, and they say, it is better. 1t is
always the voice of God. Never since the
time OF Herod has there been such"
Chamberlain got no further, for with
his half-finished reference to Herod there
came from the Nationalist such roar of
Indignation as has not been heard in the
commons since the time of Parnell.
Chamberlain was plainly startled, but
tried to talk on, his voice being inaudi-
BILE.
7. P. O'Connor sprang to his feet, and
leaning toward Chamberlain shouted
Judas so loudly it was heard through
out the house. The rest of the Irishmen
took up the cry and for half minute
shouted Judas in chorus.
When the clock struck 10 Chairman
Mellor tried to put the closure but his
voice could not be heard. Then he gave
the customary directions but several Con-
servatives shouted that he must first call
O'Connor to order for calling Chamber
lain names. Mellor protested he had not
heard the epithets in question.
Then everybody started for the front
bench, Unionists shouting ''Gag,"
others struggled in the aisles or between
benches with their Radical, Liberal, or
Irish antagonists. John Logan, Liberal,
ran down to the first opposition bench
and began upbraid1ng Edward Carson,
Tory. Wyndham and Fisher jumped to
Carson's assistance, seized Logan by the
neck, threw him to the floor head first
and bundled him under the bench.
Somebody smashed Tim Healy's high
hat over his eyes and as soon as Tim got
it off he jumped into the aisle in a fight
ing posture just as Hanbury was trying
to get past, and Hamburg was knocked
| over the bench by the force of collision. A
free fight then broke out at the gangway,
lead by William Redmond, Parnellite,
who pushed over Colonel Sanderson,
champion of the Obstetrics. Sanderson
was rescued and headed an attack on the
Parnellites. Blows were struck right
and left and the whole space between the
front benches was filed with a struggling,
cursing mass of members striking, claw
ing and upsetting each other. The sar-
geants-a t-arms were powerless.
Finally Gladstone begged Edward Ma
joribanks, a sturdy Liberal, to help stop
the affair. Majoribanks dug his way
through the belligerents and by dint of
repeated appeals in the name of the pre-
mier succeeded in terminating the con-
f1ict. Colonel Sanderson emerged first
from crowd of fighters holding bunch
of keys to his black eye; others followed
in more or less damaged condition. Just
as peace was restored door leading to
| the lobby opened and the redoutable DIR.
Tanner, who had just heard of the fight,
came rushing in, leaping over the benches
in his eagerness to get into the melee.
He was quickly seized by a sergeant-at-
arms.
Gladstone sitting upright had surveyed
the whole scene with an infamed face
and an expression OF sorrow, Indignation
and establishment which never Will be
effaced from the minds of those who
viewed him. Chairman Melior sent for
| Speaker Peel and when that gentleman
arrived several Conservatives pointed to
Gladstone and exclaimed, "There sits
| the author of it all.
| Absolute quiet was restored as Speaker
Peel, stern and dignified, took the chair.
Gibbs made a complaint about Chamber
| laid being called Judas by O'Connor.
| The speaker asked O'Connor if he had
used the term.
| Tim Healy interposed to ask if no at
| tention was to be paid to refusal Of
members to enter the lobbies for division
Finally the speaker appealed to the party
leaders to tell him what had occurred.
! Gladstone said he regretted that neither
his eyes nor ears enabled him to give 8
very accurate account of the affair. He
then gravely described events as related
to him by his lieutenants, and expressed
the opinion that division should be
| taken before the tJudas'' incident was
considered.
Balfour told his side of the story as re-
lated to him by his men, he having been
absent when the row occurred.
| Speaker Peel decided that the express
sion alleged to have been used was the
original cause of the disorder. He felt
certain it was used in the heat and irrita-
ton of the moment, and if the gentleman
were TO say that he regretted it, it would
be his (the speakers duty to take no fur
ther notice of the affair.
| O'Connor then apologized to the speaker
Dy saying InaI ne regretted III any WORD:
lie used contributed TO bring about this
most regretabie state of affairs
The speaker said the apology was ample
and hoped the House would now proceed
to business in manner to dc honor to it:
traditions. This was received with cheers
but as soon as they subsidized, Colone
Sanderson rose and recounted excitedlJ
how Eugene Cream, anti Parnellite, hi
him in the eye.
Tim Harrington shouted that he saw
Sanderson hit several members before
Cream struck him. The uproar begar
again and another riot was threate ned
but the speaker succeeded in subduing it
Then Mellor resumed the chair.
The various remaining clauses of TIL,
home rule bill were carried, When tn,
committee arose and Chairman Mellor re-
ported to Speaker Peel the home rule bill
as amended in the committee, there was
grand outhurst of cheering and hats Wer
waved for Gladstone.
Missouri Miners Strike.
RICH HILL Mo-. July "a genera
strike of all the miners in this distric
was inaugurated today. The men wan