The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-25
GLADSTONE IN HOT WATER.
His Irish Allies Ready 10 Revolt
Against His Bill.


bers Ready to Let the Bill 20 to
Smash Unless the New Clauses are
Modified.
London, June 24.-The pro spects Of
home rule for ireland are darkening
Almost every hour since Mr. Gladstone
presented his new financial scheme has
brought disheartening news OF wavering
in the government ranks, of mutinous
threats or over defiance, or plots sfor de-
lection at decisive moments, of boastful-
ness among the foes and discouragement
among the friends of the Irish cause
The promise of the situation today is that
the home rule bill will leave the commit
tee hardly before next Christmas and that
it will come back to the house of commons
a mangled and worthless document which
neither the government or opposition
viii acknowledge as its own.
The new financial clauses of the
home rule bill which were submitted by
Mr. Gladstone to the house of commons,
Thursday, have not been accepted by any
party as either clear or adequate. The
exact object of the plan now proposed, as
a substitute for the old one, is envel-
oped in mystery, which even Mr.. Glad
stone could not enlighten. The Liberals
and Anti-Panellites, though less open in
their criticisms than the Parnellites, say
that the new clauses are far from salts
factory, although not so bad as to Justify
the wreclzing of the bill.
CONFIDENCE OF THE UNIoNIsTs.
The unionists express confidence that
the last proposals will be found to be full
ly as inexpedient as the first ones and are
preparing pages of amendments calculat-
ed to illustrate the correctness of this
opinion. Joseph Chamberlain, formerly
Mr.. Gladstone's parliamentary lieutenant,
and now, as the leader of the liberal un-
ionists, his most aggressive foe, gave in
an interview to-day his reasons for oppos-
ing all the financial plans of the govern
ment. He said: "There are now virtual
ly three distinct financial schemes before
parliament The new provision scheme,
presented Thursday; the future scheme
which must follow 1t, and the old scheme
is Incorporated in the original bills.
The scheme presented Thursday is, as
might be expected, new concession TO
Ireland. If carried into effect it will cost
Great Britian R35o,00O mote than the
original bill contemplated 1t rests or
even as rotten basis as the first plan,
which was drawn in accordance with mis-
calculations of the revenues by q treas
ury official Mr.. Gladstone first proposed
tbn Tralapd3o cor ,iI,,t3oY, 70 ~ 1,.;c1
exchequer should be 81, 100000. He now
proposes that the contribution shall be
but e1 100000, a difference which will be
even greater than the figures here given
indicate, which must come out of the
pockets of the British tax payers The
Unionists will regard it as their duty to
enlighten the English public as to the ex-
tent to which the alterations will affect
them"
DEMANDS OF THE M'CARTHYITEs.
The anti-Parnellites or McCarthyites,
held a meeting last night to express their
discomfort with Mr.. Gladstone's S proposals.
After rather heated discussion the men,
bers decided to confine their immediate
demands for an amendment to the stipu.
lation as to the length Of period for which
the provisional arrangement should ex-
tend. Mr. Gladstone proposed six years.
The McCarthyites wished the financial
arrangement to be made at the end Of the
third year
The Parnellites, headed by John and
William Redmond, said that the revised
financial clauses are utterly impossible
and must be thoroughly overhauled be-
fore they can be accepted by the Irish
members. John Redmond, the leader of
the parliamentary group, has already
given notice of six amendments, among
them one to empower the Irish parliament
TO collect the customs dues, as was pro-
posed in the home rule bill OF 1885. Mr..
Redmond says that if there must be
provisional period for the regulation Of
reland's financial relations to England, a
condition which he regards with distrust
that period ought to be utilized for ascer-
tanning and defining the exact amount
I the contribution TO be made by Ireland
the imperial exchequer.
He will move, therefore, that a royal
commission be appointed to determine the
financial relations of Ireland to the rest
of the United Kingdom,
DIsTRUsTs GLADsToNE's FIGURES.
He does not trust the estimates given in
Mr.. Gladstone's new proposals. The cor
rected balance sheets, he says, still con-
tain grave errors, so that although Mr..
Gladstone figured out a nominal surplus
of e5O0,000 for Ireland, there will be in
fact deficit in the treasury at the very
begiening Of home rule. "Ireland will not
be able to meet this debt" Mr.. Redmond
said yesterday.
"Unless the Irish government be al
lowed to deal in her own way with the inn
position and collection of Irish taxes,
shall move, therefore, when the financial
clauses come up for debate, that the i'm
periaT government guarantee for six years
of the provisional arrangement, a stated
surplus of e512, 600. shall move, also, that
the Irish contribution to the imperial ex-
chequer shall be one-fourth, instead of
one-third, Of the ascertained revenues" +"
MORLEY AGREES WITH GLADSTONE.
Mr. Morley, chief secretary, for Ire
land is known to agree with Mr. Glad
stone, that Mr.. Redmond's amendments
cannot be accepted by the government.
The McCarthyite arrangement for shorten
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