The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-14

this nation to say how soon shall it be
awarded her. If this is to be, and the
matter l think dispassionate men would
say the sooner it is ended the better, the
sooner we stamp the seal which Will eiface
all former animositie5 and open an era OF
peace and good will, the sooner done the
better. But these are matters which hu-
man vision l. hardly equal to penetrate.
cit would be misery TO me If had
foregone or omitted in the closing years
OF nay life, any measures possible Tor me
to take toward unfolding and promoting
the cause which believe to be the cause
not of one party or one natlon-Dut all
parties and all nations. To these nations
with the past opportunities underlying a
union for power and happiness, to these
nations say, let me entreat you-n it be
my last BREATH would so entreat you,
let the dead bury the dead, and cast be-
hind you former recollections OF bygone
evils, cherish, love and sustain one anoth-
er through all the vieissitudes of human
Affairs in times that are to come" PRO
Ionged Liberal cheers).
When the cheering had died out, Sir
Edward Clark. attorney general IN the
Salisbury administration, congratulated
Gladstone on the magnificent physical eff
fort which he had Just made, and then
proceeded to enlarge on the proposals OF
the bill. He dwelt with particular sever
ity upon the absence of any provisions
which would remove the objection of the
people of Ulster to home rule, and then
went on to declare that the bill as out
lined would not satisfy even Nationalist.
Thomas Sexton, anti Parnelllte, de-
clared that the provisions In the bill on
whole were better than those IN the bill
of 1856.
Gladstone, in answer to Sir Edward
Clark, said the land question was re-
served to the imperial parliament for
three years.
The members then trooped out into the
Hobbies, where the speeches were in
formally discussed with great animation.
Gladstonian Liberals are disposed to re-
gard it as conciliatory, we'll balanced
and peacemaking measure, and seemed
to be hopeful as to q second reading.
AntiParnellite members, while guarded
in their utteranees, favored the bill as a
whole, and especially were they we'll
pleased with the financial arrangements
concerning which there had been appre-
tensions. All that the Tories would say for
the new bill was that it was more saga
cious and better drawn than that of 1886.
Liberal Unionists will not make even this
favorable admission, and declare every
where that it would never reach the COM
mittee stage in the house OF commons.
Meantime in the House Colonel Saun-
derson was speaking vehemently against
any and every plan or nome rule. WIFI
out uttering a distinct threat he would
say merely that unless the whole country
were blind it could not ignore the demon
stration of Ulster Union1sts last summer.
On motion OF Saunderson the debate then
adjourned. Among the distinguished
audience in the house were the Prince of
Wales, Duke OF York and Duke of Teck.
On the table lay the permier's familiar
lozenge pot an item in all his long
speeches. The presence of lamp to aid
his failing sight added pathos to the
scene Gladstone started off IN slow and
measu red voice, but his voice though fine
at the start weakened manifestly, he re-
covered during portions of his speech,
which were remarkably fine and impress
sive.
At his conclusion Gladstone was over
whelmed with congratulations. Through
out the time Mr.. Gladstone was speaking
Balfour, Goschen, Chaplin, Bartlett and
other prominent members of the opposi-
ton intently listened and took copious
notes. Lord Churchill sat in front of the
opposition bench stroking his beard in
cessantly.
Justice Harlan of the United States su-
preme court, in conversation with Glad
stones secretary, declared the speech
matchless and the peroration the most
beautiful in pathos he ever heard.
It was O'Clock when Gladstone con-
cluded his speech, having spoken over two
hours.