Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-22
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
home RULE BILL PASSED.
It Went Through the Sec
ond Reading.
they were FORCED TO THE WALL.
Receivers Appointed for Two
Large Steel Companies.
ALL OF THE EVIDENCE NOW GIVEN.
Experts Called in Rebuttal
in the Buchanan Case
THE HOME RULE BILL.

THE HOME RULE BILL.
1t Passed the Second Reading by
| Majority of Forty-Three Vote
| After Debates by Balfour an,
Gladstone-The Announcement o
tho Vote Was Received witt
Cheers-Gladstone Warmly Cheere,
prince OF Wales Was In tn
house During the Debate.
LONDON, April 21.-The home rule bill
passed the second reading tonight by g
vote Of 347 to 304 after debates by severa
members, of whom Mr.. Gladstone ant
Mr.. Balfour were the principals. Early
in the evening the debate was monopolizet
by minor members. Their speeches wer,
featureless and by 9 O'Clock the benches
were more than half empty. At 10 o'clool
Mr.. Gladstone entered hurriedly and
amidst cheers took his seat on the treasury
bench. Members began to return rapidly
At 1890 Mr.. Balfour was received with
cheerf. ALI the members had meantime
taken their places and the house waited
for the great guns of the final debate.
Mr.. Balfour rose shortly before II
O'Clock. A longer period had never been
occupied with the second reading of q
bill, he said, than had been allowed for
the present debate. The subject was of
such trsnecendant importance, however,
that nobody could say that the
discussion had been much prolonged.
The home rule bill had been brought for
ward to meet the liberal party's necessi-
ties, which were connected with Irish agi-
tation and Irish crime. [Hear, hear Never
had such an important constitutional
change been proposed with such fimsy
reasons Substantial arguments for the
necessity of the measure could be enumer-
ated on the fingers of one hand. Two of
these arguments were that the union had
failed and that coercion had failed.
that coercion in Ireland had been produc-
tive of benefcent results and that under
the last Salisbury cabinet the island was
becoming tranquil. Agrarian crime in
Ireland, he said, was a national disease of
ancient growth. He was not q product of
the union. Agrarian crime began before
the union, and after the union it had to be
treated with the methods long used against
it. Under the union agrarian crime had
decreased.
Mr.. Balfour commended that Ireland as
nation had never had parliament. Those
classes who had had a parliament in Ire
land did not now desire a parliament.
Everybody knew that the so-called suprem-
acy of the British parliament would be only
q paper supremacy.
MI. Balfour described the bill as deois-
i've step towards separation. To make 1t
law, he said, would lead ultimately to the
disintegration of the empire. He next
discussed the financial aspect of the bill.
Prolonged cheers, and counter cheers fol-
lowed.
During the demonstration several con-
servatives left for luncheon, and their
places were filled almost instantly by wait
ing nationalists. Prince Christian Joined
the Prince of Wales in the peers gallery.
AS Mr.. Gladstone rose to address the
house the cheering was renewed. Like
Mr.. Balfour he was in splendid form. The
principal weapons of the opposition, he
said, we're bold assertions, persistent ex-
aggerstion, constant demonstration and
copious, arbitrary and bsseless prophecies.
True, there were conflicting financial ar
rangements to be dealt with, but among
the difficulties nothing existed which
ought to abash or terrify men DESTROYS to
accomplish great object
For the first time in ninety years the
bill would secure the supremacy of parlia-
uASub dS 1OuAuco upOh Xlkut, % VIGIL do
backed by power. The Irish leaders had
accepted the bill in good faith. The oppo-
sition had evaded steadfastly the real ques-
ton of the second regard-how must Ire
land be govsrneda Lord Salisbury had
asked for twenty years of coercion,
but, as the policy of converting Ireland to
Professionalism. insugurated under Queen
Elijah 9Th, had failed down to the present
time, what ground was there for hope that
in but twenty years more it would sue
ceeda The late government had started
with a majority of 100. Neither the chill
dren nor the grandchildren OF this genera
ton would see such a majority again: Yet
the whole fabric of their policy had failed,
and what guarantee was there that 1t
would not faili
The present bill sought to close q con-
troversy that had lasted for centuries.
Everything hitherto demanded by Ireland
had been refused because she was viewed
with distrust and disbelief. Her loyal &C.
ceptance of the present bill should cause
distrust and disbelief to vanish. There
had been no disaffection of the Irish mind
since the door of hope had been opened.
The persistent distrust of the people, de-
spite all they could do, came to this-that
they were to be pressed below the lsvel of
civilized mankind. When the book of self
government was given to the British colo
nies was Ireland alone to be excepted from
| its blsssingsa To deny Ireland home rule
| was to say she lacked the ordinary faoul-
| ties of humanity.
Mr.. Gladstone's olosirg words were:
"You cannot be surprised that we have
| undertaken the solution of this question
and as on the one hand 1t is not the least
arduous of the efforts of the liberals, 80
on the other hand it will have its place in
history-aye, and not remote, but early
| history-as not the least durable, fruitf al
| and blessed among Its accomplished acts. u
| Before the cheering ceased George Bart
| ley, conservative for North Ellington, rose
| to continue the debate. Mr.. Morley, chief
secretary for Ireland, however, moved the
closure, and it was adopted without di
vision.
William Saunders, radical, who had
threatened to bolt to the opposition, chang
cd his mind at the last moment and
went into the lobby with the ministerial
lists. As Mr.. Gladstone returned from tn.
lobby liberals and nationalists rose
cheered, and waved their hats. John Red
mond shouted: ssThree cheers for Parnell,
but the only response was laughter. Tn,
| announcement that the bill had passed tn,
second reading by q vote of BAT to 304 wa
the signal for more cheers and hat-waving
There was another demonstration whe1
Mr.. Gladstone left the house. Crowds hat
gathered outside the building and as tn,
prime minister rode away he was FOLLOWED
by their cheers.
The division was taken on strict part,
lines. Every nationalist member vote
with the majority. The dissident liberals
to . man, went with the opposition.