The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-04-11

LONDON, April 10,-There was but q
thin attendance in the house OF COM
mons to-day when tho discussion was re.
sumed on the motion for the second
reading OF the Irish homo rule bill, It
was not until Mr.. Chamberlain arose
that the house assumed an aspect OF in-
tersst and attention. Mr.. Chamberlain
said that the bill proposed to establish
brand new constitution for Ireland.
Tho prime minister asked them, con-
tinuod Mr.. Chamberlain, when the con-
troversy would be- settled ii the meas
ure should be rejected. The whole
question really was, would the bell set
tie the controversy? Was not Mr..
Gladstone in too great q
hurry, and was he not too
impatient to deal with the Irish
difficulty? A new era has opened for
Ireland with the dlsestablishment OF
the Irish church. Then tho agrarlan
question had been fairly settled. Time
ought to be given to allow for the bene-
fetal operation OF those measures, But
the prime minister said that Ireland
was still discontented, and no progress
toward conciliation had been made. If
such was the case then the productions
OF the prime minister regarding tho
measures he had already promoted for
Ireland had proved fallacious and threw
discredit on similar predictions in re-
gard to the present measure giving Ire
land legislature.
Probably, added Mr.. Chamberlain.
the people Of England would accept the
bill if they believed the bill would on.
able them to got rid OF the Irish ques-
tion. ["Hear. Hear But he feared
it would do nothing OF the kind. Mr..
Gladstone had disregarded the rights OF
the minority and treated the most infu-
ential and prosperous OF the Irish peo-
pie with contempt
He proposed to subject that section
OF the Irish people 10 such legislative
conditions as would wreck their indus
tries aud expose the whole country to
financial ruin. Not Ireland alone, but
England equally, had reason to dread
the results Of the measure.
The whole OF the property classes,
continued Mr.. Chamberlain, whatever
their religion, were opposed to the bill.
The present chancellor of the duchy of
Lancaster had said that ii the police
should be placed in the hands OF an
elective body, the landlords might
whistle for their rents and be glad it
they escaped with whole skin; and
the present secretary for Scotland had
once declared that he would rather re-
main private citizen throughout his
life than consent to confide the lives
and liberties OF law abiding popula-
ton to parliament composed OF such
men. These were the utterances OF four
ministers who now led the way, in pro-
posing to establish such parliament.
conservative cheers,
Ho would not say that Ireland, II
England should be engaged in war,
would take sides against England, butit
was possible that the sympathy OF the
Irish might be with Engand's oppo-
nent, thereby exposing England to the
risk Of q simultaneous civil and foreign
war.
Justin Mccarthy, leader OF the anti
Parnellites, ridiculed MIR. Chamber
lain'a prophesios Of disaster. The
Irish people, he said, hailed
the bill as n pledge that their
aspirations would be satisfied. They
would accept it as message Of lasting
peace. Predictions that they would
misuse 1t to foment discord and dis
loyalty could be made honestly only by
those installing the present mood OF
tho Irish nntion