Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-09-14

LoNuON Sept. Sin the House of Lords
10 night Barons Halsbury, Baron Herschell,
Baron Monkewell and the bishop of Rlpon
spoke on the home rule bill to half empty
benches After . o'clock the scene lvened
ny as members and visitors began stream
Ing in. The galleries showed few vacant
| leats All tho notable church dgnitares
were present.
Members of the House of Commons
crowded the sccesses and standing room
around the throne The lobbies were
! crowded. Outside of the Parliament houses
bands of conservative workingmen gathered
! to incite a jubient demonstration on the
expected rejection OF the home rule bill.
Detachments from radical workingmen's
rubs and Irish societies also appeared on
the scene. As brawl was feared the
police broke up the different groups and
kept them moving.
The debate in the House reached the acme
vt dulluess in the Earl OF Morley s mauu-
behring's against the bill.
Lord Salisbury rose to speak at 1881
o'clock amid loud cheers. he said that
throughout the debate question CON
stantly present in his mind was Why had
the government introduced such a bill On
this point the House had received no sutli
sent enlightenment.
In dealing with the retention of Irish
mem bers at estminster-which was an
Outrage on England 10 enormous and 30
grotesque that it was surprise that 1t had
ever found place in proposal emanating
from responsible government--the lord
rhan cellor, Lord Herschel had declared
that he was not inclined to associate him
telf with so desperate clause, but would
prefer acme other arrangement
The secretary of foreign affairs Qord
Roseberry) in his speech also has avoided
the burning subjects underlying the govern
nents policy. Much had been snid Of the
benefits Of autonomous government, but had
there been for q century statesman bold
enough to propose that an autonomous col
ony should send so members to the Imper-
ial Parliament representing no interest in
England and bound by no responsibility
with respect to the possible application of
laws that Parliament passed.
The absurdity of such a position was
enough TO send man to bedam. How
could they get rid of Irish questions In the
presence of SO members seeking to make
themselves marketable wares in negotia-
tons with the ministers Would these
men, sent by rchbishop Walsh, be quiet
ON questions of religion and education {?
What appeared to shine visbly through all
arguments was that home rule was policy
of despair.
What moral or political right had any
government to embark on such an expert
montal policy in Ireland, divided to her
base by conflicts, which during centuries of
English rule had rather increased than di-
diminished ? Representative government
never hourished on soil where homogenity
was wanting. This policy would be more
.han madness In dealing with a race that
FOR centuries had hated England.
Mac Auley when be sat with the liberals.
and Gladstone when he sat with the CON
derivatives [lGughter had said that they
would regard the repeol of the Union as
fatal to the empire, and would never con
sent to 1t. If England held her
ordships that she wanted this horror, the
|rase might have been different; but as long
|ns England wat true to herself, she would
never allow this atrocious, this mean, this
treacherous evolution. Their lordships
would be untrue to the duty devolved upon
them from a splendid ancestry, and untrue
o their highest traditions, if they sailed to
reject tho bill, Loud cheers
Lord Salisbury spoke Tor hour and
quarter. His conclusion was marked by
quiet eloquence.
The Earl of Kimberley, lord president of
the council and secretary of state for India
briefly replied to Lord Salisbury.
The lord chancellor then put the motion
Tor the second reading of the homo rule
(5ll, The House divided at midnight and
he result was the rejection OF the motion
by a vote of 4l9 to Al.
All the Bahops went with the m jority
The announcement of the result was re.
neived with laughter and some cheering
The House then adjourned
At midnight Unonist demonstration
Tns held outside the building.