Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-29
GLADSTONE WINS AGAIN
Home Rule Measure Passes Its
Second Reading.
The Premier Closes Debate...Was In Splen.
did Form and Made a Magnificent
Spsech... .Cloture chokes OH
Further Debate.

LoNnoN, April a2.--1he house OF
commons was crowded with people
anxious to witness the final contest in
the second reading of the home rule
bill. DIR. Tanner, national member for
Middle Cork, was on hand early, bear
ing with him a beautiful bouquet OF
flowers for Gladstone. sent from Ire
land and accompanied by the inscrip-
ton, "All blessings and Power to tho
Friend of Poor and Distressed Ireland;
May God Prosper You"
Sir Henry James. liberal unionist.
spoke in opposition to the bill, which
he said surpassed the ingenuity of man
In devising proposals to bring law into
contempt st is simply measure, I"
he said, Ito enable n section of Irish
agitators TO deal as they may choose
with the country.
Balfour spoke at length on the bill.
He could not believe that this childish
imitation of the United States consti-
tuition would ever commend itself to
the judgment of the British people.
He therefore put federation aside as
not immediate to the discussion. He
said the bill was decisive step toward
separation, though not final one. To
make il law would lead ultimately TO
the disintegration Of the empire. Irish
ambition would center in the new Dub
lin parliament. lrishmen would regard
the imperial parliament as a foreign
and defeated body. In closing Bal
four said:
"If you commit this great political
crime you make yourself responsible BILE
for irreparable national disaster, and
all hopes of peaceful and united Ire
land vanish foreve.."
Prolonged cheers greeted Gladstone
when he arose to address the house. He
was in splendid form, his voice clear
and full. The principle weapon of the
opposition, he said, was bold assertion,
persistent exaggeration, constant mis-
and copious, arbitrary and
financial arrangements 10
be dealt with, but among the Difficult.
ties nothing existed which ought TO
abash or terrify men desirous To ac-
complish a great object The oppose
ton evaded steadfastly the real ques-
ton of the second reading-how must
Ireland be governed il this bill is re-
jected? When the boon of self gov
ernment was given TO the British colo
MES was Ireland alone to be excepted
from its blessings? To deny Ireland
home rule was TO say she lacked the or
dinary faculties of humanity. In clos
ing, Gladstone said:
You cannot be surprised that we
have undertaken the solution of the
great question, and as on one hand it
is not the least of the arduous efforts OF
the liberal party: SO, on the other
hand, it will have its place in history
aye, and not remote, but early history
as not the least durable. fruitful and
blessed among its accomplished acts"
Before the cheering had ceased,
George BARLEY, conservative for North
lslington, rose to continue the debate.
Morley, chief secretary for Ireland,
moved the cloture, and ii was adopted
and vote taken. The announcement
that the bill had passed the second
ceading by vote of 347 10 30i was the
signal for more cheers and hat waving.
There was another demonstration when
Gladstone left the house