The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-09
CLOSURE DOING THE WORK.
The Home Rule Bill Rushing Toward
Final Passage.

The Four Clauses Pushed Through
Thursday Night Almost Before the
Opposition Had Time to Breathe
The Debate on Clause 8 This Week
the elimination of the Struggle.
London, July 9-The new programme
of the government works like a charm.
Thursday night clauses 5, s, and s were
pushed through the committee stage so
swiftly that the opposition hardly had
time to breathe between votes. The eX-
hibitiOn of the smooth workings of the
government machine has given
new courage and hope to
the friends of home rule. The
petty mutiny of the radicals Thursday
evening excites no apprehension; the
beuigerenco Of John Redmond and his lit
tie band Of Parnellites is ignored. Alto
gether the liberals feel more confident
than at any time since the Whitsuntider re
cess, although nobody doubts that
there still are difficulties ahead, among
which the government may go to pieces.
CULMINATIoN OF THE STRUGGLE.
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next weeks debate on clause 9, which
contaius ten sub-heads concerning Irish
representation at Westminster This
clause has been named the 'In and Out"
clause by the tories. 1t provides for the
retention of so of the 1O3 Irish members
in the house of commons, but deprives
them of the right to vote on questions cX-
clusively concerning Great Britain
Both of these provisions have been sub
jects of acres of editorials and both are re-
garded with divided opinions by the
liberals themselves.
GLADSTONE RETICENT.
So far Mr.. Gladstone has declined to
tell the house Of commons just what al
terations he proposes to make in clause
nine. Last night Mir. Balfour, the leader
of the unionists tried to draw from the
premier an uneQuivOcal declaration on
the subject. lie asked these pivotal
questions; Has the government decided
definitely that Irish members shall re
main in the house of cOmmonsl If the
Irish members remain are they
to vote on every class of
subjects or merely on a defined class of
subjectsl If the Irish still sit in the I'm
perial parliament, how many seats will be
allowed theml
The parliamentary skill for which Mr.
Gladstone has become celebrated, was
never shown to greater advantage than
when he parried these questions. He has
realized as keenlY as anybody that
clause is full Of thorns for
the government; that, in fact, the
disputes which will accompany its dis
cussion will imperil the whole bill and
the government. His tactics have been,
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nevoent neutrality and to profess appar-
emily keen desire to please everybody.
The government, he said, would
accommodate itself readily to any
arrangement convenient to the house and
would avoid anything calculated to excite
the apprehension of the members of any
party. Not word could be got out of
him. He maintained an amiable silence,
while Sir Henry James and Leonard
Courtney. liberal unionists, and Henry
Matthews, conservative, pelted him with
questions and taunts.
THE PREMIER's WISHES.
In ministerial circles it is no secret that
Mr. Gladstone wishes to adhere to the
original proposals of the bill that so irish
men be retained at Westminster He
is willing, however, to abolish the lin and
out" arrangement so as to empower
Irish members to vote on all questions,
Irish and imperial. The liberals are so
divided on every question involved in the
clause, that the government fears to as
sumo determined attitude towards any
line Of it. Many of the majority believe
that the Irish ought not to vote on any
except Imperial questions.
The Parnelites under the mutinous
Mr.. Redmond demand that as long as the
control of Irish taxation remain with the
imperial parliament, all the Irish mem
bers shall be retained to vote onaLl ques-
tions.
THE UNIONIsTs HOPEFUL.
Unionists are hopeful that the discord
in the Gladstonian ranks will afford them
an opportunity to steal a division The
best chance for this would be effected
when Atherly Jones, liberal for northwest
Durham will propose that the clause be
amended to empower the Irish
members to vote on all sub
iects A dozen liberals viii
support the amendment and thus will
probably place the seat of the government
in the balance. Should the peril become
too threatening, however, and a vote of
confidence be broached Mr.. Gladstone
would be likely to evade the crisis by
leaving the settlement of the question 10
the house as such, and not sitting in
committee.
LIBERALS OBJECT TO CLOSURE.
The debate on clause nine will last un-
til Thursday when the government will
again apply closure Not all the liberals
are pleased with the prospect of thus
cramming each successive clause down
the throats of the opposition. Several Of
them say that in the near future
the conservatives will have their
turn and make the liberals
smart under the same treatment. a ma
jority of them, backed by liberal news
papers, try to encourage these timid ones
by telling them that they are saving the
country from parliamentary impotency
and anarchy and that in a week or two the
wheels will move so smoothly in com