The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-11
A BAD SPLIT FOR ERIN.
The Sexton -HGaIy Row a GOdSend 10
Gladstone.

The Rumpus Temporarily Distraots
the Attention Of the Nationalists
From Their Kick on the Acceptance
of Amendments to the Home Rule
Bill - Gladstone Makes a Promise
and Dodges Another Question.
London, June 10-The elimination of
the long pending trouble between Timothy
Healy and Thomas Sexton has been a
Godsend to the government. The excit-
ing scenes in the conference OF the Irish
parliamentary party Friday, and Mr..
Sections subsequent retirement from his
seat for North Kerry, have so distracted
the attention of the Irish members that
they have little time to make
protests against Mr. Gladstoue's re-
cent concessions to the unionists.
Had it not been for this diversion
an immediate open revolt in the Irish
ranks against the government policy
would have been unavoidable Justin
Mccarthy, leader of the anti-Parnellites,
stated the case plainly in an interview
with the premier just before the confer
ence met. He told MIR. Gladstone that
been reused to a point at which the lead
ers had become powerless to preserve dis
cipline unless the government should give
the most explicit assurances that
no further concessions to the union
lists would be made. The spe-
citic cause Of this potential revolt
is the number of amendments to clause
of the homo rule bill which have been ac-
cepted by MIR. Gladstone from unionist
members. Nine such amendments to
limit the powers of the Dublin legislature
have been conceded. One of the nine was
carried even against the votes of "A Irish
men. Most of the Irish members attrib-
ute the repeated yielding of the govern
ment to its enemies to mere lack of back
bone. A few, however, go so far as
to suspect treachery within the cabinet.
III an informal consultation with the
ministers in the lobby the Irish leaders
have urged the argument that as the
home rule bill is the outcome of definite
agreement between them and the govern
ment no alterations ought to be made by
the ministers without their first seeking
the assent of the nationalists. This
argument Mr. Mccarthy was COM
missioned by his colleagues to lay before
MIR. Gladstone with special emphasis, and
he did so.
GLADsToNE's REPLY EvAsIvE.
In reply to the warning that the ac-
ccptance of further uniOnist amendments
would be the signal for Irish hostilities,
MIR. Gladstone authorized Mr.. Mccarthy
to tell the conference that decisive
| measures would be adopted to close the
committee stage of the bill by the middle
of July How the premier proposes to do
this to the extinction of unionist OBJ
structiOn, he did not say. He also avoided
giving any assurances concerning the ac-
ceptance of future amendments from the
unionists. Mr.. McCarthy's report of his
conversation with the premier was re-
ceiVed with some demonstrations of i'll
temper by the conference and majority of
the members expressed themselves as IA
voring immediate measures to compel the
government to act without delay and in
conformity with explicit assurances. They
also emphasized the necessity of Mr.. Glad
stone acting, as previously, in close con-
cert with the Irish leaders; that is, of
accepting the dictation Of the natioualists
as to the future course of the home rule
bill.
THE ROW AMONG THE IRISH.
Mr. Mccarthy promised to inform Mr..
Gladstone of the sentiment of the meet
ing, but his pledge, hardly given, was for
gotten, as the discussion turned to the
Sexton affair, which quickly stirred all
the animosities latent among the mem
bers and evoked scene repeat
edly on the verge of violence 1t was
such a bitter quarrel as disturbed
the last Parnell conferences. Nominally
the trouble concerned the control of the
party newspaper organ, but really it was
due to the fundamental differences in the
political creeds of the leaders. Timothy
Healy represents the clerical element on
the board of the F'reeman's Journal, and
at all points in general Irish politics he
is in close touch with the priests Mr..
Sexton, on the other hand represents the
secular faction Of the nationalists. He
Joined the board of the Freemans Jour-
nal at the request of John Dillon and
Jastin Mccarthy. At the conference
yesterday, however, Mr.. Mccarthy was
unable to rally n majority to the support
of his proteges policy in the directorate.