The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-30
TORIES DON'T LIKE THE GAG
Bitter Fight Against Gladstone's At.
tempt to Silence 0bstructionists.
Night and Until 4 O'Clock This Morning
Closure Motion Frowned Down.
ALL NIGHT SESSION.
Gladstone's Rule to Limit Debate Strongly
Opposed in the Commons.

Gladstone's Rule to Limit Debate Strongly
Opposed the Commons.
LONDON, June 29-In the House of Com
mons. to-day. Mr.. Gladstone moved the
adoption of the resolution. the terms of
which were read in the House yesterday.
providing for the quicker passage of the
Irish government act 1.-THE home-rule blll.l
In speaking TO his motion Mr.. Gladstone
said that the governments would not feel
justified in ssnctioniDg any intermissiOn
in the business of the House by
proroguing or adjournlng Parliament
until the home-rule bill was passed and
supplies voted. The resolution was abso-
lutely necessary. 1t was as considerate as
he could possibly contrive. Without re-
sorting to some method of closure 1t would
take more than twelve months TO pass the
bill in committee of the whole. The char
acter of the amendments was suoh that if
they were accepted they would destroy the
bill. The government had other important
measures which he hoped the House would
have time to deal with.
The Right Hon. A. j. Bslfour. the leader
of the opposition In the House, here asked:
How oan proposals curtalling the liberty
of discussion of the home-rule bill be Q
necessity when the Prime Minister in she
same breath states that there is plenty of
time to settle other questionsp Contin-
uing, MIR. Balfour said IL was party eXpohi-
ency and not parliamentary neces-
sity that inspired the resolution:
Nothing but the whole energies Of
Parliament during the whole session were
adequate to the home-rule bill. The gov
ernment wished to evade discussion on a
new Constitution affecting the United
Kingdom. Mr.. Balfour denied that there
was a parallel between the closure resolu-
tions of the Conservatives of 1887 and the
present resolutions. The crimes bill of 1887
not. He defended the amendments 10 the
bill. saying that though they were numer-
Gus none of them was obstructive.
L. w. Russell, champion of the men of
Ulster. moved the rejection of the resolu-
ton. Joseph Chamberlain. leader of the
Liberal Uni0nists, spoke at length against
the governments plan for curtailiDg the
debate in the committee stage. The object
OF the resolution, he said, was virtually to
gag the chief contracting party to the
union. Nothing more monstrous had ever
been proposed in the House.
Mr.. Chaplain, president of the Board of
Agriculture under the last Salisbury adj
min lstratioD, criticized the Ministers for
their refusal to debate the resolution, and
eventually moved that. as q protest against
the conduct of the Ministry. an adjourn
ment be taken. Mr.. Chaplain's notion was
defeated by vote of 30S to 279 Mr.. Rus
sells motion to amend practically so as to
reject was defeated by o vote or 500 to 279.
Several more motions TO adjourn were de-
feated. the de bate in the meantime bein g
quite spirited.
Thomas Sexton, anti. Pnrnellite. for N orth
Kerry, accused the opposition of trying to
force an all. light sitting upon the House.
and then trying to back out. At $50
O'Clock this friday morning. Cony beare
moved the closure. The Speaker refused
fatty to put the question, and the debate
on the original resolution was resumed.
After some further discussion Mr.. Balfour
agreed to conclude the offering of amend
ments at z O'Clock Friday evening. and Sir
William HarcOurt consented To adjourn
the House. The members arose few min
utee after 4 o'clock A. NJ. 1t is calculated
on the government side that the sessiop
will be adjourned the first week of Sep
tember and that the autumn session Will
be called to begin about the last of Octo-
bcr.