New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-22
EXPEDITING THE HOME RULE BILL.

FyPEDITING THE HOME RULE BILL
THE HOUSE AGREES TO CLOSURE THE REPORT
STAGE ON FRIDAY-sIR WILLIAM HARCoCRT
REPLIES TO MR.. CHAMBERLAIN.
Iondon Aug 21-Mr. Gladstone in the House
~ Commons to-day moved the adoption of the reso-
,r,,on notice of which was given last Friday, to
ann,v the closure to the report stage Of the Home
Rrle bill on Friday of this week The resolution
was adopted without division. Before that action
was taken. however. Joseph Chamberlain 'he
Unionist leader. submitted his amendment deciar-
ing that the Governments proposal was calculated
to degrade the House into voting machne' oe-
rriv;ne the British majority of its constitutional
Fights and that It ought therefore 10 be with
drawn
In speaking to his amendment Mr.. Chamberlain
said he could recognize the necessity OF passing
the Home Rule bill session. The real neces-
s.ty for rushing the bill through was that the
Government did not dare to stand on one measure
the only chance Of the adoption of which. II any
such chance had existed. had been destroyed
by the Governments alteration of the ninth clause
of the financial arrangements. If the Government
went TO the country tomorrow, Mr.. Chamberlain
added 1t would meet with crushing defeat. Know
ing this from its agents, it wanted the bill
hustled out of the way In order to enable it to
patch up It's reputation with other measures.
Sir William Harcourt. Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer replied to Mr. Chamberlain for the Gov
ernment. In 1887. he said, the Conservatives had
thought the closure proposal a good one and the
Liberals had thought ii bad one. The Liberals
thought the present proposal a good one and the
Opposition thought just the opposite 1t was plain
then to everybody who would that the real
question at whether or not a reasonable
time had been allowed for the discussion OF the
present bill The country must form their own
opinions this point The Government had al
lowed eighty days for the discussion OF the Home
Rule b-twce the time before given up by
Parliament to any one measure. In conclusion, Sir
William illustrated Mr.. Chamberlains Inconsistency
by quoting from an article written by ~ Mr ,rca Cham
plan of placing time limit on Parliamentary OBJ
struction ,,. a., ,..,.ua.. .o,. ,oroad
he said to remind Sir William that in America the
provisions % against sweeping & aelatons Oh 'e '1 tb
Home Rule bill from being made law by ma
3ority OF only per cent or the peoples representa-
The House then divided on Mr.. Chamberlan's
TO Is2.
THINKS THE PEARY PARTY AT BOWDOIN
Boston, Aug. q (SpeciaD.-W f. Mechan, a mem
Der Of the Peary relief party OF last year, Is con-
WINGED that the stories purporting to come from
Newfoundland, describing the Peary Arctic expedi-
ton as likely to be abandoned, unfounded. Mr..
Mechan is on the editorial staff of The Phila-
dephia Ledger" He says. in part. in letter to
'"The Journal II think that you need have no
whatever
The greater part If not all, Of the dispatches pub
ushed in the various papers concerning their trou
bles are in all likelihood the inventions of some
person desrous Of causing cruel sensa tion. Know
ing as well do that IL is almost impossible to re-
ceye any authentic news of the Falcon or its party
at present i look with suspicion on any dispatches
which are published concerning them: Granting,
however that the gis of these statements were cor
them We nee were told there were dogs to be OBJ
taned in Labrador nat Is no disaster, ior r ,here
i.a had
Mr. Mechan believes that the Falcon arrived in
Bowdoin Bay last week. and that her parry are
now unloading supplies ana buiioihs 'he" Hou'e'
FOR BUILDING NEW GERMAN WARSHIPS.
Berlin. Aug. N-Vice-Admra Holman Secre-
tary Of State Naval Affairs is said to have ob
tanned the approval of DR.. MIGUEL and several other
Ministers for his plan of spending foV"'VV iharhs
on new warshps in order that Germany may not
fall too far behind France and Russia In naval
armament.
KING. or SLAMS FRIENDSHIP FOR FRANCE.
Bangkok Aug 21-The King of Siam yesterday
xaye AN audience to NJ lie Myre de Viera, the
special envoy of France who is charged with the
arrangement of the details OF the settlement oe
tween Siam and France. The King renewed his
assurances of friendship for France and expressed
the hope that the present amicable relations De-
tween the two countries would continue
THE 5000 WELSH STRIKERS DID NOT MARCH
London, Aug H.-The threatened invasion OF
Ebbw Vale. Wales, by army OF 10000 striking
coal miners from the Rhondda Valley. whose IN
tentton Il was to force the non-union miners TO
quit work, has not yet occurred. though the orig
(nai Asa was to begin the march yesterday The
weather was threatening during the day. and
taward evening II began to rain in torrents. This
AaA deterrent effect upon the strikers. but 1t Is
more than likely that the measures taken by the
pelice and military to protect the mines and the
twerking miners had to do with the post
Dsnsment, II not the actual abandonment, Of the
Dgogramne than had the weather. Many nom
)gp1ou men were working In the Ebbw Vale dis
lo4ct To-day They were under police and military
Df1tae6oQ, which will not be withdrawn until the
Qe3 Il ateAok past