The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-01
The HOME RULE BILL.
II Will Be introduced Monday by
Mr.. Gladstone.
THE GRAND OLD MAN SPEAKS.
ne Replies TO an Attack by Mr.. Balfour.
Doesn't Want Parliament To be Moved
nv Premature Denunciations of the
Home Rule Bill.

LONDON req. l.-Iue early part OF las
evening was passed in the House of Com
mons in giving notices OF motions. No
tice that Mr.. Gladstone would introduce
his Home Rule bill on next Monday ellie
tied prolonged Liberal cheers. Col.
Nolan, Parnellite, tried to raise a discus
sion OF priestly intimidation in Ireland,
by moving a suspension OF the issue o.
the writ for South Meath, where Patric&
Fullam, anti-Parnellite, was unseated
recently. Upon Mr.. Gladstone's sugge,
ton that he desired to e~Xpediate the bus
mess of the House, Col. Nolan agreed &c
postpone the motion.
AT $50 O'Clock George Lambert, Liberal,
rose to move the address. He spoke 10
empty benches, as did also Mark Beaufoy,
Liberal, who seconded the motion.
Tn House filled like magic, however,
when Arthur j. Balfour, first lord OF tn"
treasury in the last Sails bury cabinet and
now leader of the Unionist opposition.
arose and, amid a storm of opposition
cheers, began in a sneering tone a general
criticism of the government. He con
graduated the cabinet upon the abandon
ment Of the policy TO abandon Uganda -
the policy which had been so ferventlv
recommended by the chancellor OF the
exchequer (Sir William Harcourt) before
~ w AAH AhFAAAN INV
In their Egyptian policy, Mr.. Balfour
said, the ministers could rely upon the
support of the opposition IA long as
They Upheld British Rights.
He trusted the government would, at
their earliest convenience, let Parliament
know the causes which led to the recent
troubles in Cairo. Among the causes, un-
doubtedly, were the rash utterances made
by the prime minister and the chief secre-
tary for Ireland when they were in the
opposition. Both were to blame for rails
ing hopes which would certainly be pro-
ductive of future difficulties.
Mr.. Balfour then denounced the evicted
tenants commission as unfcirly constitu-
ted, that they were incapable OF present
ing a trustworthy report. As Mr.. Bal
four proceeded with a prolix statement
of his object to the governments policy,
the interest Of the House waned percepti-
bly,. Toward the close of his speech he
warmed again to his subject. He demand
ed that the home secretary should say
whether or not the release of Egan and
Callan, the Irish dynamiters, was part OF
a policy of amnesty intended to involve
the release of all the Irish dynamiters and
he charged Mr.. Morley, Irish secretary,
with having used the crown p%rerogative
for political purposes.
WI oidhSlOilt WIS tutcEtu lOuulN NDtll
he rose to answer Mr.. Balfour. He had
noticed, he said, that, with the continued
growth of legislative arrears, the eager
ness of the country for vigorous legisla-
tion increased. He had
Decided to Lose No Time,
therefore, in satisfying this eagerness.
He would secure the appointment of a
royal commission to look into the Welsh
land question. The suspensory bills would
quicken, he believed, the activity OF the
churches of Wales and Scotland.
He reproached Mr.. Balfour for assailing
with infiammatory criticism a bill not
yet introduced and for doing his utmos.
TO prejudice the minds Of his followers
against a plan OF home rule OF which he
was still ignorant.
Mr.. Balfour had asked where there was
an empire which had been strengthened
by the adoption OF local autonomy. Mr..
Gladstone replied that, as Lord Salisbury
had done some years ago, he would point
TO Austria Hungary as an illustration APP
plicable to the case of Great Britain and
Ireland. He would also point to the Brit
ish colonies which sixty years ago wera
ruled from London, but demanded sepa-
ration until self-government finally was
granted.
He would not reply to Mr.. Balfour's in.
against Mr.. Morley's sdministra-
ton of Ireland, except TO say that the
wise policy OF clemency had been stimuli
taneous with a great decrease OF agrarian
crime. Mr.. Balfour's attack upon the
tenants commission recoiled up-
on himself. Why did he not wait until
the commission's proposals came before
the House, when he could urge his object
ions
With Greater Force?
The mission to Uganda was necessary in
order that al impartial and thorough in
quiry be made into affairs there. The re-
suit OF this inquiry would enable the gov
eminent to arrive at a rational decision.
Those who wished to wash their hands of
forget the charters and other
which they would thereby in
volve. He did not believe that in his long
career he had ever uttered
words so rash and dangerous as were
those uttered by Mr.. Balfour concerning
The difficulties in Egypt. These words |
bad seemed to suggest that the govern
ment would lose no time in getting out OF
Mr.. Balfour rose and repudiated the
charge that he had suggested the proba-
bility of a hasty evacuation.
Upon resuming, Mr.. Gladstone said that !
the government had not TO consider the |
OF occupation, but merely the
OF order. The relations of
the two governments had now been
placed on a satisfactory footing and fur
ther trouble was not apprehended.
Mr.. Gladstone repeated his appeal TO
The House not TO be moved by premature
denunciations of the Home Rule bill. He
could understand the impotence OF the
members II they discovered any disposi-
ton TO delay the bill, but such did not
II surely would be better for all TO
walt and give the provisions OF the bill
their full, careful, deliberate, perhaps
impartial, even benevolent iudg-
After Mr.. Gladstone's speech the House
adjourned.