Connecticut western news., 1893-09-14
EJECT HOME RULE.
HOUSE OF LORDS OVERWHELMINGLY
 DEFEAT THE BILL.
The Great Irish Measure Which Gladstone Pushed Through the House of Commons Killed by 8 Vote of 419 to 41-salisbury's Brilliant Speech.

LONDON, Sept. 9.-Promptly and with much vigor the house of lords rejected the home rule bill The parting kick was as energetic as it was in Lord Salisbury's power to give The vote was 419 to fl against. Although it was generally under stood that the house of lords would reject the home rule bill, the house did not fill up until after the dinner hour, popular inter- est centering in the speech of the Marquis of Salisbury, who was not expected to rise until toward midnight. In the meantime Baron Halsbury, Baron Herschsll, Baron Monkswell and the Bishop of Ripon had spoken to half empty benches.
 After o'clock the scene outside and in- side the house livened up as members and visitors began streaming in.
 The peeresses', strangers and diplomatic galleries showed few vacant seats. Con- spicuously occupying portion of the area of the house were % bishops attired in their capacious robes, with lawn sleeves. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford and every notable church dignitary were present. Members of the house of commons crowded the accesses and standing room around the throne. The Hobbies held so many people that they were impossible until the police received orders to clear them.
 The debate in the house reached the acme of dullness in the Earl of Morley's maun- derings against the bill. A number of oth- CT peers were on the roll to speak, but a sense of weariness affected them as well as the house generally. So Lord Salisbury, seizing a chance during a momentary pause, rose amid rapturous cheers and be- gan his speech.
 Lord Salisbury said he felt that there ofa1 l. Al- sition he occupied-that of the last person to speak against home rule in the course of the present session.
 Salisbury's Attack.
 Much had been said of the benefits of au- tonomous government, but had there been for century 8 statesman bold enough to propose that an autonomous colony should send 80 members to the imperial parlia- ment representing no interest in England and bound by no responsibility with respect to the possible application of laws that par lament passedS The absurdity of such a position was enough to send man to bed lam. How could they get rid of Irish ques- tions in the presence of 80 members seeking to make themselves marketable wares in negotiations with the ministersS
 Would these men sent by Archbishop Walsh be quiet on questions of religion and educationp ..s
 Representative government never four ished on a soil where homogeneity was wanting. This policy would be madness in dealing with ordinary men, and more than madness in dealing with a race that for centuries had hated England
 If England had told their lordships that she wanted this horror, the case might have been different, but he believed that to be impossible. As long as England was true to herself she would never allow this atro- cious, this mean, this treacherous revolu- tion. Their lordships would be untrue to the duty devolved upon them from splen, did ancestry and untrue to their highest traditions if they failed to reject the bill. Loud cheers
 An Overwhelming Vote.
 Lord Salisbury spoke for an hour and a quarter. His conclusion was marked by quiet eloquence. Some signs of waning vigor were noticed in him, but these are, in part at least, attributed to the oppressive heat in the chamber. The Earl of Kim berly, lord president of the council and sec retary of state for India, briefly replied to Lord Salisbury.
 The lord chancellor then put the motion for the second reading of the bill He caused some merriment by crying, 1T think the contents have it." Very loud and determined was the rival cry, '"The noncontents have it."
 The house divided at midnight, and the result was the rejection of the motion by vote of 419 to 41.