The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-02-18
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
Items from the Debate on the
Address.

eral cheers. At $50 pm. Lambert
UiberaD rose to move the address
in reply to the Queens speech. He
spoke to empty benches, as did
Mark Beaufoy, who seconded the
motion. The House was filed like
magic, however, when Balfour arose
and, amid storm of opposition
cheers, began i'll a sneering tone
general criticism of the Government.
AS to the Egyptian policy, Balfour
said, the Ministers could rely upon
the support of the opposition as
long as they upheld British rights.
He trusted that the Government
would, at it's earliest convenience,
let Parliament know the causes
which led to the recent trouble in
Cairo. Among the causes, undoubt-
eddy, were the rash utterances made
by the Prime Minister and the Chief
Secretary for Ireland when they
we're in the opposition.
Balfour denounced the Evicted
Tenants Commission as so unfairly
constituted that it was incapable of
presenting trustworthy report. He
demanded that the Home Secretary
should say whether or not the re-
leases of Egan and Callan, the Irish
dynamiters, was part of policy of
amnesty intended to involve the re-
lease of all the Irish dynamiters.
Gladstone was cheered loudly
when he rose to answer Balfour. He
reproached Balfour for assailing
with inflammatory criticism a bill
not yet introduced, and for doing
his utmost to prejudice the minds
of his followers against plan of
home rule of which he was still ig-
norant. Balfor had asked where
there was an empire which had
been strengthened by the adoption
of local autonomy. Gladstone re-
piled that, as Lord Salisbury had
done some years ago, he would point
to Austria-Hungary. He would also
point to the British Colonies, which
sixty years ago we're ruled from Lon
don, but which demanded separa-
ton until self-government was fin
ally granted them.
He would not reply to Balfour's
invective against Morley's admins
tration of Ireland except to say that
wise policy of clemency had been
simultaneous with great decrease
of agrarian crime. Balfour's attack
upon the Evicted Tenants Commits
sion recoiled upon himself. Glad
stone did not believe that in his long
parliamentary career he had ever
uttered words SO rash and danger
Gus as those uttered by Balfour con-
corning the difficulties in Egypt.
These words seemed to suggest that
the Government would lose no time
in getting out of Egypt.
Resuming, Gladstone said the
Government had not had time to
consider the question of occupation,
but merely the maintenance of Or
der. In conclusion Gladstone re-
peated his appeal to the House not
to be moved by premature denun-
Citations of the home-rule bill.
In the House of Lords several new
Peers, including Lord Playfair, took
the oath. The Prince of Wales and
his son, the Duke of York, had seats
on the bench. Lord Brassey moved
the adoption of an address in reply
to the Queens speech. His motion
was seconded by Lord Thring. Both
mover and seconder spoke in general
terms in support of the Government.
Lord Salisbury appeared with the
opposition. Touching upon the
question of home rule for Ireland,
he said the one object of the Gov
eminent in the past six months had
been to get the support of class of
men whom hitherto no politicians
in England had tried to conciliate.
The keynote of the Irish policy of
government was supposed to be to
get the support of the criminal
classes. All the acts of the Govern
ment caused the impression that it
was much more in sympathy with
criminals than DESTROYS of vindicat-
ing the law. Cries of Hear! Heart"
The reference in the Queens speech
to home rule was the most peculiar
sentence Salisbury had ever seen in
public document. 1t seemed to
indicate the Governments opinion
that the whole Irish question with
which Parliament had to deal was
that it was right for one portion OF
the Irish to place their heels upon
the neck of the Protestant popula-
ton of Ireland.
With regard to other measures in
dictated in the Queens speech, Lord
Salisbury declared that nobody be-
lieved they would ever be under
taken. There was simply a repeti-
ton of the program adopted by the
Liberal conference at Newcastle
Lord Salisbury alluded to the agri-
cultural depression, and said agricul,
ture suffered most from want of con,
fidence. Political partisans now
preached doctrines that were filling
the minds of the owners of capital
with apprehension. There was nc
country in the world, Salisbury
added, where property was now sc
insecure as in Great Britain, in con
sequence of erroneous Legislative
action. Cries of "Hear! hearw]
The Earl of Kimberly mildly re-
monstrated with Lord Salisbury fol
accusing the Government of having
sympathy for Irish criminals. He
promised to introduce the home rule
bill in the House of Lords as soor
as it passed the Commons. When
this promise was heard faint laughter
rippled over the benches. The de
bate then adjourned.
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