The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-01
IRISH QUESTION UP.
Salisbury and Balfour Declare
the Tory Position.
A spEECH az GLADSTONE.
The Home Kuls Bill to Be IntF Cd need
Nondsy-Freueh Deputies 0us.
tain the GoverumenG

/ LoyDos. Jan. 3i.-Parliamen. feassern-
| bed today. The queens speech contained
/ no points Of special interest beyond those
| outlined 10 the dispatches yesterday. A..
! the close Of the reading Of the queens
I speech parliament adjourned till after
noon. On Resembling Gladstone took
+ the oath ss prime minister and was fol-
I loved by his colleagues. In the house OF
I lords several new peers, including Lord
( Pisyfsir. took the oath. The Prince OF
/ Wales and his son. the Duke Of York, bad
seats on the cross bench.
Lord Bras.ey moved adoption Of the ad-
dress IN reply 10 the queens speech. His
motion was seconded by Lord ThriDg.
Both mover and seconder spoke in general
terms IN suppor, ofthe government
Lord Sails my, who today appeared in
opposition. passed q compliment on Lord
/ Thring. Touching upon the question Of
home rule for ireland, Lord Salisbury
said one object of the government in the
past six months had been TO ge. the sup
port Of class Of men whom hitherto no
politician in England had tried to concili-
ATE. The keynote of the Irish policy Of
the government was 20 get the support Of
the criminal classes. The preroga.ive of
the crown had been used to shield muir
derers and released dyn aniters. All the
act. Of the government had caused the i'm
preston that they were much more in
sympathy with criminals than DESTROYS Of
vindicating the Law. rCries Of Hear.
hear" The reference in the queens speech
TO home rule was the most peculiar
sentence he had ever seen in a public docu-
nent. 1t seemed 10 indicate the govern.
ment's opinion that the whole Irish ques-
ton with which parliament had 70 deaf
vas that 10 was right for one portion Of the
Irish 10 place their heels upon the neck Of
the Protestant population Of Ireland.
: With regard 10 the other measures indi-
Gated in the queens speech. Lord Sails
bury declared that nobody believed they
would ever be undertaken. They were
simply a repetition Of the programme
adopted by the L berai conference at
Newcastle. Lord Salisbury alluded 70 the
agricultural depression and said agriculture
had suffered most from want Of confidence.
Political partisans now preached doctrines
that were filling the minds of owners of
capital with apprehension. There was no
country in the world. Lord Salisbury
added, where property was now SO insecure
as in Great Britain, in consequence of erro-
neous legislative action. [Crles of "Hear,
hearr'l
The Earl Of Kimberly mildly remon-
stra,ed with Lord Salisbury for accusing
the government Of having sympathy for
Irish criminals. He promised to intro
duce the home rule bill as soon as it had
passed the commons. When the promise
was heard faint laughter rippled over the
benches The debate then adjourned.
In the commons this evening notice that
Gladstone would introduce the Irish home
rule bill on Monday ELECTED prolonged
Liberal cheering. At $50 Lambert, Lib
eral, rose to move the address. He spoke
to empty benches, az did Mark Beafers,
who seconded the motion. The house
filled like magic, however, when Balfour
arose and. amid storm Of opposition
cheers. began in a sneering tone general
criticism of the governments Egyptian
policy. Balfour said the ministers could
rely upon the support Of the opposition so
long as they upheld British rights. He
trusted that the government at its earliest
convenience would let parliament know the
causes which led to the recent troubles at
Cairo. Among the causes undoubtedly were
rash utterances made by the prime min
lister and chief secretary for Ireland when
they were in opposition. Baifour an
nounced the evicted tenants commission
as SO unfairly constitute as to be incapa-
bic Of presenting trustworthy report. He
demanded that the home secretary should
say whether the release of Egan and CAL
Ian, the Irish dynamiters. was part of
policy Of amnesty intended 10 Involve the
release of all Irish dynamiters.
Gladstone was cheered loudly when he
rose to answer Balfour. He reproached
Bafour for assailing with intiammatory
criticism bill not yet introduced and for
doing his utmost TO prejudice the minds
Of his followers against plan
of home rule of which he was
still ignorant. Baliour had asked where
there was an empire which had been
strengthened by the adoption of local
autonomy. Gladstone replied as Lord
Salisbury had done some years ago. He
would point to Austria-Hungary. He would
also point to the British colonies
which sixty years ago were ruled from
London, but whose demand for self-gov-
ernment was finally granted He would
no; reply TO Baliour's invective aeaips,
Morley's administration Of Ireland excent
TO say that the wise policy of ciemency
had been simultaneous with the decrease
y
upon the eyicted tenants commission re-
cooled upon him. Gladstone did not
believe that IN his long parliamentary
career he ever uttered words - rash and
| dangerous rs were those uttered nv Bal
four concerning the d tfculties in Egvpt.
These words seemed to sugces. that the
government would lose no time in getting
out Of Egypt.
Ba!iour rose and repudiated the charge
that ne had suggested the probability of
hastv evacuation.
Resuming. q adstone said the govern
ment had not time TO consider the CUES
ton of occupation, but merely the main
tenance of order. In conclusion. Glad
stone repeated his appeal TO the house not
10 be moved by premature denunciation
0: the home rule bill.
THE PANAMA SCANDAL.
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