The record-union., 1893-04-11
IRISH HOME RULE.
GladstOne's Measure Attacked by
Joseph Chamberlain.
THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND DE-
FENDS THE BILL
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Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
LONDON, April 10.-There was but a
thin attendance in the House of Com
mons to-day, when the discussion was
resumed on the motion for second read
ing of the Irish home rule bill. 1t was not
until Joseph Chamberlain arose that the
House assumed an aspect of interest and
| attention. Chamberlain said the bill pro-
posed to establish brand-new Constitu-
ton for Ireland. 1.-The Prime Minister
asked Them" continued Chamberlain,
when the controversy would be settled,
II the measure should be rejected. The
whole question really was, Would the
bill settle the controversy? Was not
Gladstone in too great hurry, and was
he not too impatient to deal with the
Irish difficulty? A new era had opened
for ireland with the. disestablishment of
the Irish church. Then the agrarian
! question had been partly settled. Time
ought to be given to allow for the bene-
| fetal operation of these other measures,
but the Prime Minister said Ireland is
still discontinued, that no progress toward
| Cancellation had been made. If such was
Minister regarding the measures he had
already promoted for Ireland had proved
fallacious and threw discredit on similar
predictions in regard to the present meas
ure giving Ireland separate Legislature.
Probably" added Chamberlain, ''the
people of England would accept the bill
if they believed it would enable them to
get rid of the Irish question. Hear,
hear.l But he feared it would do nothing
of the kind. Gladstone had disregarded
the rights Of the minority, and treated the
most influential and prosperous section of
the Irish people with contempt"
| Chamberlain said that not Ireland
alone, but England equally, had reason
to dread the results of the measure. The
whole of the property classes, whatever
their religion, were opposed to the bill.
Had Gladstone said he had ever known
any State to succeed when the Govern
ment was opposed by majority of the
property-owning class? Even the
Nationalist, in accepting the measure, did
not admit that it was a finality. Did any
body consider the so-called Safeguards
in the bill worth anything if the Irish
majority was determined to disregard
them? True, the British Parliament
could enforce them by civil war, but not j
otherwise. Conservative cheers If the
Government had the courage of their con-
vlctlons they ought to sweep away the So
called safeguards in the bill. But prob
ably Gladstone still suspected the good
intentions of the men TO whom he was
maneuvering to give the Government of
oh
he formerly said they preached the Cos
pei OF plumber and were marching
through rapine to the dismemberment of
the empire.
Chamberlain quoted various utterances
| in the past of the present Chancellor of
the E1chequer, the Chancellor of Duchy
of Lancaster and Secretary of Scotland of
an unklnd nature concerning some of
the Irish leaders, and added that these
were the utterances of four ministers who
now lead the way in proposing to estab-
lish such Parliament. He would not
say that Ireland, if England should be
engaged in war, would take side against
her, but it was possible the sympathy of
the Irish might be with England's OPP
ponents, thereby exposing England to
the risk of a simultaneous civil and
foreign war. The danger was too great
and the possible gain too small.
Justin Mccarthy, leader of the Anti
Parnellites, ridiculed Chamberlain,s
prophesies of disaster. The Irish peo-
pie, he said, hailed the bill as pledge
that their aspirations would be satisfied.
| They would accept it as message of
lasting peace. He could not saw the
Irish party was quite satisfied with the
financial clauses ofhome rule, nevertheless
! they accepted the bill generally as an hon
est settlement of the question. [Cheers.
As far as the Irish party could foresee. it
might prove final settlement. If the
bill was carried the Prime Minister would
win the undying gratitude of millions of
men. PROLONGED cheers.
William Redmond, leader of the Par
nellites, ridiculed the idea that Ulster had
anything to fear from Catholic Ireland.
Ii disturb Dances follow the passage of the
bill, they would be due to the conduct of
the Opposition leaders, who had not hest
tated to excite the worst passions of both
Catholics and Protestants.
Sir George Trevelyan, Secretary for
Scotland, who. followed Redmond, made
an elaborate defense of tho bill. The
leading Conservative statesmen, he said,
were INDUCING in a prospective justifica-
| ton of civil war in Ireland. The mon
who were talking so loudly about fight
| ing were not of the fighting kind. Such
incorporate speeches as were made daily
with the approval of the Opposition lead
ers could not fail, however, to produce
violent displays of fanaticism.
After Ashmead Bartlett CONSERVATIVE
had spoken against the bill, the House
adjourned.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.