The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
CLADSTONE'S BESETMENTS.
And Yet As Marvellous Ills UnrufiIed
Serenity.

Harder to Manage-Impatienc of
the Scotch and Welsh Contingents.
Labouchere For Postponemnt of the
Home Rule Bill TIL 1894 Chamber
lain For Delay, Looking to Dissolu-
tion-Conviot Gallagher Stimulating
Insanity Hot Weather.
London, Aug. 19-Few English prime
ministers have encountered such Difficult
ties among their political friends as Glad
| stone has encountered and overcome since
| the home rule bill went into the commit
tee stage. Almost every paragraph has
been made the subject of domestic quar-
rels by the government majority. In the
committee stage Gladstone was worried
| day and night by the requests, demands
and threats of the divided nation
alists. With the passage of the financial
clauses, the paragraphs concerning
| Irish representation at Westminster,
and similar thorny parts of the bill in
committee, the great liberal public sup
posed that the old mans life of toll was
over, and that the bill would be carried
through the dnal reading without further
strain upon his overtaxed energies. The
great liberal public, however, was com
paratively unacquainted with the de-
plorable faetiousness which has grown
steadily with the progress of the bill
through the House of Commons
SAVED BY GLADSTONE FROM GOING TO
PIECES.
Recently the situation of the govern
ment has been critical, and only by Glad
stones Incompatible tactical skill, and
by his dauntless persistence in pressing
forward toward the home rule goal, has
| it been saved from going to pieces.
| Unionist obstruction has been a far less
threatening difficulty than the innumera-
BILE jealousies and heartburnings in the lib
eral ranks Each Gladstonian group, whose
support of the home rule bill was secured
through promises of special legislation,
opened out on the prime minister
as soon as 1t felt that the
bill was virtually through the House, and
therefore that their part Of the bargain
had been fulfilled Demands that the
governments pledges and assurance be
realized without delay multiplied on every
side. The Welsh members went so far as
to send Gladstone a sort of ultimatum TO
the effect that, unless Welsh disestablish-
ment should be the next measure proposed
by the government, they would slip from
under at the last moment and leave home
rule and ministry in the lurch. The
Scotch liberal members, after a party
conference, made known their demands
to the premier in q similar, although
somewhat less menacing manner The
Fnylish radicals, who, under the leader
ship of the incalculable Labouchere, have
been regarded with growing apprehen-
sion ever since the beginning of the home
rule fight insist that the parish councils
bill must be passed at the autumn session
ernment business go to the wall.
VALUE OF THE WELSH VOTE
Of all the malcontents, the Welsh
threaten most vigorously and are most
keenly feared, as the withdrawal of their
thirty votes would leave Gladstone with
a majority of hardly ten and would render
impossible the continued existence Of the
government. Their open revolt has been
deferred for the time being by diss ensio7s
among themselves as well as by the APP
pealing remonstrances of the liberal
whips. The Scotchmen have been pla-
Gated by letter from Gladstone to the
effect that their demands shall be duly
considered when the time for determining
the course of government business shall
come Gladstone has also promised pri-
vately that he will have appointed a Sc
lect parliamentary committee to consider
| the financial relations of Scotland to-
wards the rest of the United Kingdom.
This promise was a trump card as the
ScOtchmen complain almost unceaSingly
that they pay too much and get too little
in national economy. To the protesting
radicals Mr.. Gladstone has said merely
Wait. ;" This advice rs not CRATE
ful to Labouchere, and, before
starting for Marienbad to enjoy a
vacation and take the waters,
ne expressed his displeasure in a manifes-
to to his constituents In this manifesto
he condemns the legislative plan of apply
ing the closure relentlessly In the final
stages of the home rule bill and the esti-
mates, and advocates the dropping of the
home rule bill until 1894, in order that the
autumn session may be devoted to the
New Castle programme.
THE PREMIER's EQUANrMIrY.
Despite the yelling of this quarrelsome
pack at his heels, Gladstone apparently
serenely holds to his course straight
ahead, and keeps to himself whatever
veXation and misgivings his diversified
following causes him. He says now that
the final vote on the whole bill shall be
taken on August 81.
Joseph Chamberlain leader of the lib
eral unionists, declares contidentially that
the House will be kept sitting until No
vember, when the government will be
forced to propagation, or, more probably,
dissolution. Chamberlain has abandoned
MS proposed "Trip Wlbn MIS-. Cnan nDerldln
to America in September in order that
he may be here to fight in the last ditch.
He intends to move, some time during the
fall vote of censure, and to challenge
the government to dissolve parliament.
GALLAGHER's MENTAL CONDITION.
report that DR.. Thos. Gallagher, the Irish
American agitator, had been released
from Portland prison in consequence of
mental arrangement, has caused the pub
licatiOn OF considerable medical literature
concerning his condition and conduct
since conviction. He has been examined
repeatedly by experts since 1888, with a
view to testing his sanity. DR. Bland
ford Sir j. r. Bennett and DR.. Tuke, after
making careful examination, argued that
Gallagher was merely stimulating mental
and physical illness. The prisoners knowl-
| edge Of medicine, they said, enables him TO
do so with exceptional cleyerness. Jas.
Benefits private report. made in 1889,
stated that he found Gallagher dining off
chicken and potatoes, for he feigned
stomach trouble so well that the prison
| officials had concluded he was unable TO
digest the ordinary prison fare. The
| latest report made by DR.. luke says that
| at last Gallagher was induced to give up
his stimulation of insanity and go to work
with the other prisoners. He is now,
says DR.. Tuke, healthy and industrious.