New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-12
THE NEW COERCION.
A., cIADSTONE,S EAGERNESS TO URGE THE
NOME RULE BILL THROUGH THE HOUSE.
..rruxG ELSE ALLOWED TO STAND IN THE
WAY THE GUARDIANSHIP OF COM
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oonvrioht: 1888: BY The Tribune Association.
London. March 1.-THE temperature is rising
,,st and il looks as if before many days weeks
80. over the state of political and social feeling
=; Jondon may become not less strained than it
COOS in 1886 The House Of Commons is barom-
o,.r or perhaps rather coast-guard station,
where storm signals are already hoistcd. MIR.
Gladstone becomes daily more inpatient ind
more imperious Mr.. Balfour whose command
over his own temper is more complete than over
.ome of his followers, is not tie man to submit
"a oppression, even if the oppressor be the Prime
Minister There was something like a scene be-
tween. them CT Thursday in the course of a
,ather prcklv conversation the order of bust
n.ss Mr. Gladstone has found himself compelled
N postpone his motion for the second reading Of
,be Home Rule bill from rcXt Monday to the
allowing Thursday. Monday is 10 he devoted to
.dscusson on the report of that Evicted Tenants
Commission over which Sir James Mathew pre-
dded with such singular impartiaity. On and
after Thursday, Home Rule is to hold the field.
Does the Prime Minister mean asked Mr..
Balfour, that all other public business is to be
ret aside whatever its condition and however,
necessary it may be to keep the law by getting
on with Supply
This question angercd Mr.. GLADSTONE. and he
answered in that manner of disdain which he can
assume when he likes:
with respect to Supply am not able TO
make any calculations which would lead to the
anticipations of the right honorable gentleman
Mr.. Balfour, angry in his turn, retorted sharply !:
IL want no calculations from the Prime Min
lister.
This occurred at the very time when Mr. Bal
four was doing his best to keep his own party In
hand. and when Mr.. James Lowther. who has re-
sumed his old role a guerilla leader. was head
ing small mutiny Mr.. Lowther insisted on a
division on Mr.. GlaGstone's motion for suspcnding
the midnight rule. Mr.. Balfour and most of his
colleagues on the front bench, including Lord
Randolph Churchill, walked out OF the House
without voting.
The reason why Mr.. Balfour's question SO
aung the Prime Minister is plain. The Prime
Minister is bent on rushing his Home Rue bill.
He is determined to bring the House to vote
ON the second reading before the Easter vacation.
To that end he is employing all the known means
of parliamentary coercion. He has taken the
whole time of the House for Ministerial business
He has abolished the rights OF private members
for which, when in opposition, he showed the
most tender solicitudc. lie resorts Oh the one
hand to morning sittines, and on the other sus-
ponds the rule which brings contentious business
10 close at midnight He has set up SATURDAY
sit,ings lie thrusts aside all other public ousi-
ness except, first, such financial business as Is
absolutely necessary to keep the Government
going: second. such business as the Irish insist
on third. such proposals as the various sections
of his supporters compel him TO accept as the
price of their loyalty
There is nothing in the normal condition oil
business TO justify these arbitrary and veXatiouF
dealings with the House. The sole preteAt for
tbo,n is the Home Rule bill, and the sole cause
for them is 20 be found in the wilfulncss OF
it's author No doubt he feels that his time
10 limited I do not like 10 suggest that age
ia the handspring of his impatience. lie IS ior'
over referring often with dignity and pathos
10 his are: but he cannot endure the silghtes'
.yus;on 10 il by anybody else. Lord Randolph
Churchill seeking to explain the pfeciptarcS
of Mr.. Gladstone's Home Rule proposals in 1880
described him rather roughly as an old man III
a hurry To-day he is older by seven years aho
in greater hurry than ever. lie knows Una
il is his last chance. If he fails now, he iai''
forever lie knows that his bill, supposih9 Una
he gets il through the House oil Commons IL
some shape must be thrown ont by 'he ,'ou'
~ Lords lie looks forward as ! have explaire'
before, TO WINTER OF
Pule and AGAINST the House Of Lords. He mas
anen;.o forecast of events. lie intends 20 do fa
more than force Home Rule through the House o
Commons At the earliest possible moment IL
intends 70 send ND 10 the House Of Lords other com
plc.ed measures all radical in their purpose eac'
a concession TO some separate interest or cdp'i''
each capable of being represented 10 the COUNT
as conceived in the interest OF the peoP''' w.
hearing in its bosom some boon lor ''i' ma
Each Of them will be hateful 10 'hc "o"
Lords since each will be frrsh i''no' "'''
upon settled principles. or iresh a''''" ''
property or upon vested interests lao. :,
Tho lords will nevertheless. find thciisci rs -
dilemma. cunnngly constructed iof '"en' ~ -
oldest and craftirst Of old Parliamentary "'
II they pass these measures they s'r'hs'"'"
cncIny and they do violence 10 'h'' Wv" ~
yictions II they reject them, they zen" d" y,
force TO the agitation against their own N","', ~,
and against their existence as legislative oo's
Yen will hear the Prime Ministers vo'oe '' 81
;ra throughout the land The Lords are III
;,,r,aoahlc foes not only of Home Rule. but o
every Liberal measure ana OF every ''i'
which the people would benefit A.
Uore therefore is the fun explanation OF MI
Clods,one's present hurry. and Of the trelnch'o"
nressuro which he ia putting upon the IouS'
commons He resorts TO this pressure in order ,
have chance of carrying Home Kule-no. u.
year: nobody supposes that it can be carrieu III
year-but next To carry it alone would propap'
he, in his own judgment, beyond his power i"s
land either hates Home Rule or cares niue ANU
il. But there are measures f" which snc uo'
care. and Mr. Gladstoncs tactics consist IN oihoih
them and Home Rule together. lie is gong
reverse Brghts smie. He believes 1t easier a
it probably will be, to drive six OMNIBUS
abreast through Temple Bar than TO drive one
There is another reason for hurry Inc "'
this bill is understood, the more likely
be read a second time. Give the country 'n'