The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-11
IRISH MEMBERS QUARREllnG.
a Serious Split Against Glad.
stone Averted.
Emo Home Rule Party Were Determined
TO Stop the Ministry From Accepting
ANY More Tory Amendments when
Elm Healey and John Sexton Rako I'm
an Old Quarrel and Fall to Fighting
Over 1t.

LONDON, June TO- The elimination
OF the long pending trouble between
Tim Healey and Thomas Sexton has
been Godsend to the government
Inc exciting scenes in the conference
OF the Irish parliamentary party Friday
ana 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 Gladstone's recent
concessions to the unionists.
Had it not been for this diversion an
immediate revolt in Irish ranks against
the government would have been un.
avoidable. Justin Mccarthy, the leader
OF the anti Parnellites, stated the case
plainly in an interview with the
premier just before the conference met.
be told Gladstone that the discomfort
OF the Irish members had been reused
to point at which the leaders had bs
come powerless to preserve discipline
unless the government should give
most explicit assurance that no further
concessions to unionists would be made.
The specific cause OF the potential
revolt Is the number Of amendments to
clause OF the home rule bill, which
nave been accepted by Gladstone from
the unionist members, nine OF such
amendments to limit the powers of the
Dublin legislature have been conceded.
one OF them was carried, even against
the votes Of seventy. four Irishmen,
Most of the Irish members attribute
the repeated yielding OF the government
TO It's enemies to mere lack of back.
bone. A few, however. go so far as to
suspect treachery within the cabinet.
In an informal consultation with the
ministers In the lobbies the Irish leaders
have urged the argument that
as the home rule bill is outcome of n
definite agreement between them and
the government, no alterations ought to
be made by the ministers without their
nrst seeking the assent OF the national.
lists. This argument Mccarthy was com
missioned by his colleagues to Law be-
lore Gladstone with special emphasis
and he did So
In roply to the warning that the &C
'ceptance of further unionist amend
ments would be the signal for Irish
nost1lltles, Gladstone authorized Me-
Carthy to tell the conference that de.
clslve measures would be adopted to
close the committee stage OF the bill NV
the middle of July. How the premier
proposes to do this to the extinction of
the unionist obstruction he did not saw.
he also avoided giving any assurances
concerning the acceptance Of future
amendments from the unionists.
McCarthy's report of his conversation
with the premier was received with
some demonstrations of i'll temper by
the conference and the majority of the
mem bers expressed themselves as favor.
ing immediate measures to compel the
government to act without delay in con-
1ormity with explicit assurances. Thew
also emphasize the necessity OF Glad
stones acting, as previously, in close
concert with the Irish leaders, that ia.
OF accepting the dictation of the nation.
aiist as to the future course of the home
rule bill. Mccarthy promised to inform.
maidstone OF the sentiment Of the meet
ing, out his pledge, hardly given, WAS for
gotten as discussion turned to the Sex
ton affair, which quickly stirred all the
animosities latent along the members
ana evoked scene repeatedly on the
verge of violence. 1t was such q bitter
quarrel as disturbed the last Parnell con-
ference. Nominally the trouble con.
cerned the control Of the party newspa-
per organization. Really it was due to
funda1antal differences in the political
creeds of the leaders.
Timothy Healey represents the cleri-'
cal element on the board of the Free
mans Journal, and at all points in
general Irish politics, he is in close
touch with the priests. Sexton on the
other hand. represents the secular
faction of the na.ionalists he juined
the board OF the Freeman's Journal at
the request Of John Dillon and Justin
Mccarthy. AT the conference yester.
day, however, Mccarthy was unable to
rally majority to the support of his
protege's policy in the directorate.