The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-21
TORIES TO BIZ THWARTED.
Gladstone viii Meet FiIibuSteTin6
With Closure.

Home Rules Defeat Certain Wore the
Liberals 60 Fail TO Resort to Heroic
Measures 10 O'clock Rule to
Be Suspended After the Whitsuntide
Recess Complicated Financial
Questions to Be Bridged Over by a
Provisional Agreement.
London, May 2O.-The questioA stin
confronting the government is: "How
can the persistent obstruction of Messrs.
Balfour, Chamberlain and Churchill be
reduced to a minimum2" Another week
has been passed in factious, fruitless,
platitudinous discussion, and the home
rule bill has been moved hardly a hairs
breadth nearer the liberal goal Neither
unstinted application of closure or the
self-euforced reticence of the Irish and
liberal members has suficed to expedite
the work in the committee to even the
partial satisfaction of Mr.. Gladstone. The
ministers have been forced to their wits
ends to devise some heroic measures to
stop the flow of talk, in which the opposi-
tion are trying to drown the purposes of
the government, Their plan now is to accel-
crate the committees progress from clause
to clause by suspending the o'clock rule
Immediately after the Whitsuntide recess.
The home rule bill would then be debated
day after day and night after night, to
the exclusion of everything else Mr.
Gladstone is understood to approve of this
plan. The old man, having been driven 10
corner by his antagonists, has developed
a 80
days and has now rallied himself to find
his way out. The obstruction has not dis
couraged him as it has some of his fol-
lowers, but has served merely to
strengthen his energy and determination
10 force victory quickly from thsminority.
de has made it known privately in the
ministerial circle that the bill must be
brought through the House of Commons
by the middle of July.
THE NEW PLAN.
Without fixing the exact date for re-
porting the bill he has formed a plan for
the purpose of determining approximately
the final day of the committee stage At
the beginning of every week he will ar
range with the cabinet for the amount of
work tn be done in the succeeding days
and Will specify the clauses which must
be passed before the next weeks work
shall be begun. No protest or plea for
fair play from the obstruCtionists viii be
permitted TO thwart the programme thus
laid out. Ii necessary for the fulhllment
OF his plan some clauses will be
forced to a vote without any prelimi-
mary debate whatever. The work Of the
committee will be further accelerated by
the s1mplihcation of the complicated
financial questions on which the opposi-
tion have built their hopes OF obstructing
to the point of sheer exhaustion of Mr.
Gladstone and his lieutenants. The gov
ernment's purpose is to substitute for the
involved proposals of the bill o clause
providing for a two years provisional
arrangement between the Irish and i'm
perial exchequers. This change is as
agreeable to the liberals as to the Irish
members. Both think that the POSTPONE
ment of final action on the financial de-
tails will not affect even remotely the
main principles of the bill, while likely
to avert two or three weeks Of futile dis
cussion. Reports concerning these items
of the ministerial programme have al
ready brought on signs Of tOryism which
will swell to a hurricane of wrath when
the unionists see their whole fabric Of OBJ
struction collapse under the masterful
hand of the premier.
COERCION JUSTIFIED.
The liberals and radicals agree that the
government is justified in adopting the
proposed extraordinary plan Of parlia-
mentary coercion, although u week ago
many favored less extreme measures. The
uniOnists alone are responsible for the
bonds which will bind them, as they have
rcioiced openly in their determination to
kill or MAIN the bill by means Of exhaust
ing delays in the committee stage. Al
ready the house in committee has divided
twenty-four times on two clauses, to say
nothing of divisions on motions for
closure With four pages of amendments
behind them the members still see fifty
pages awaiting debate and division.
Nine pages of amendments have
been added since the committee be-
gan sitting, nor is this all.
IN the last week alone several hundred
amendments which were not printed have
been noticed in committee. No govern
ment making the least pretensions TO
regulating and facilitating public business
could long tolerate such outrageous fill
clustering without lOsiDgall prestige. The
opposition are chuckling over the fact
that they have compelled the committee
to sit thirteen times to pass the first seven
lines Of the bill which covers twenty
pages. Their record is, in fact, beyond
all precedent in the parliamentary history