Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-11
DISCUSSING HOME RULE
Mr. Chamberlain Makes a Strong
Speech in Opposition.
ENGLAND WOULD ACCEPT A BILL
Granting Ireland Home Rule If 1t
Would Forever Settle the Mat
ter - Sir George Trevelyan
Taunts Mr.. Chamberlain and
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach With
inconsistency.

LONDON, April 10.-There was but .
thin attendance in the House OF Com
mons to-day, when discussion was re-
sumed on the motion for the second
reading Of the Irish home rule bill. 10
was not until Jos. Chamberlain arose
that the House assumed an aspect OK
interest and attention.
Mr.. Chamberlain said that the bilf
proposed TO establish brand new cons
stitution for ireland. The Prime Min
lister asked them when the controversy
would be settled II the measure should
be rejected.
The whole question was really, would
the bill settle the chntroversy-Sasn mob
Mr. Gladstone In too great hurry and
was he not too impatient TO deal with
the Irish difficulty? A new era bad
opened for Ireland with the disestab-
lishment OF the Irish church.
Then the agrarian question had been
partly settled. Time ought to be given
TO allow for the beneficial operation OF
those measures. But the Prime Minis
ter said that Ireland was still discon-
tented and no progress toward reconcil-
iation had been made.
III such was the case then the predic-
tions of the Prime Minister regarding
the measures he had already promoted
for Ireland had proved fsllacious aud
threw discredit on similar predictions
In regard to the present measure giving
Ireland a legislature.
Probably the people OF England
would accept the bill II they believed
the bill would enable them TO get rid OF
the Irish question. (llear, hear.) But
he feared IL would do nothing OF the
kind. Mr.. Gladstone had disregarded
the rights Of the minority and treated
the most influential and prosperous or
the Irish people with contempt.
lie proposed to subject that section
OF the Irish people TO such legislative
conditions as would wreck their Indus
tries and expose the whole country 10
financial ruin. Not Ireland alone, but
England equally had reason to dread
the results OF the measure.
The whole OF the property classes.
whatever their religion, were opposed
to the bill. The present chancellor o.
the Duchy OF Lancaster had said III
the police should be placed Ia tho hanus'
OF an elective body, the land
lords might whistle for their rents
and be glad II they escaped with
whole skin, and the present Secretary
for Scotland had once declared that he
would rather remain private citizen
throughout his life than consent 70
confide the lives and liberties OF law
abiding population 10 Pariiament
composed OF such men.
These were the utterances OF four
ministers who now led the way In pro-
posing to establish such n Parliament.
Conservative cheers.
He would not say that Ireland, X
England should be engaged In war,
would take sides against England, but
IL was possible that the sympathy OF
the Irish might be with EngIand's OPP
ponent, thereby exposing England to
the risk OF simultaneous civil and for
eign war.
Justin Mccarthy, leader OF the anti
Parnellites. rIdicuied Mr.. Chamberlain's
prophesies Of disaster. The Irish peo-
pie, he said. hailed the bill IS pledge
that their aspirations would be salts
fed.
They would accept II as message OF
lasting peace. Predictions that they
would misuse II 10 foment discord and
disIoyalty could be made honestly only
by those mistakiDg the present need OF
the Irish nation. ~
William Redmond, leader OF the Par
nellites, said that the bill had been dis
cussed sufficiently by the House. Moth
ing was to be gained by prolonglng the
- davfufon n0W pCadgH
to give effect 10 tho wishes expressed
by the nation at the last general elec-
| tien.
Mr.. Redmond rIdiculed the idea that
Ulster had anything TO fear from
Catholic ireland. III Disturbances In
Ireland should follow the passage OF
the bill they would be due TO the con
duct Of the opposition leader. who had
not besitated 70 excite the worst pas
dons OF both Catholics aud Protestants.
Hear, Hear)
Sir George Trevelyan, Secretary foI
| Scotland, who followed Mr.. Redmond,
made an elaborate defense OF the bill.
He commended Sir Michael Hicks-
| Beach and Mr.. Chamberlaln for theif
frankness .'in at least admitting th1
necessity Of settling the Irish questioi
by some measure Of local self-goyer1
ment."
Sir George tsunted Mr.. Cham berlsiI
with Inconsistency 10 the matter nnI
charged the Conservative party wiz
practlcing now oil the arts OF obstrutV
ton which they had found 90 obnoxiou1
when used by the NatIonslists.
After answering In detail the srRu,
ments OF the opposition against specify
provisions OF the bill, he denounce
strongly the Ulster programme. ATT
Ashmead Batlett (Conservstive) hz
spoken against tho bill, the house "a
| ionrned.