Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-28
In A RIOT
Outbreak of Wrath Over the
Home Rule Bill.
sCRIMMAGEs ALL OVER THE FLOOR,

Saunderson Gets a Black Eve and Two or
Three Irish Leaders Show Mementoes Of
the Diversion Committee Chairman
Mellor Has to Call on Speaker Peel to
Calm the Belligerents-Unprece
and Disgraoeful Doings
LONDON, July 28.-On the government
programme 10 o'clock last evening was
the hour set for the closure of the debate
In committee on the home rule bill. The
parts of the bill left over for the discus
sions of the last week were the new finan-
clal clauses. the schedules and the pre-
amble. The galleries of the house were
filled with persons expectant of an exciting
scene at the close of the committees la
bors. Few members were absent from
the benches on the floor of the house
The proceedings early in the evening were
tame enough John Clancy, Parnellite.
moved an amendment to the effect that
the imperial government shoul guarantee
to Ireland e50O,OO0 annually during the
provisional period of six years. but Glad
stone opposed it and debate ensued lating
until fifteen minutes before closure was
to be applied.
Chamberlain Fires a Closing Broadside.
Then Joseph chamberlain rose to deliver
the final broadside of the opposition Aft
er few scornful and biting words as to
the conduct of the members, he began
giving his opinion of the closure as applied
by the government. The members, ne
said, were about TO witness the last scene
in a dis rreditable farce. The debate on the
financial clauses had been a mere sham.
The government had stood over friend and
foe alike ready to let fall the guillotine
without regard for justice Of constitution
al rights. The Irish members, as well as
the Unionists, were anxious to discuss at
length the important financial questions
presented by the new clauses, but such
discussion was to be cut short. The bill
had been changed in its most vital feat
ure still, no debate was regarded as
necessary, since whatever was altered the
bill was always found pc feet by the adher-
ents of the prime minister.
Anoiher Kind of Gag Law.
Jeers from the Irish, cheers from the
Cnionists, and counter cheers from the
Liberals interrupted Chamberlain at this
point He waited two or three minutes
before the confusion abated sufficiently for
him to speak. He then proceeded thus:
"The prime minister calls black, and his
adherents say it is good. The prime min
lister calls white and they say it is better.
[Unionist laughter. 1t is always the voice
of God. Never, since the time of Herod,
has there been such"
Chamberlain got no further Immedi-
ately after resuming his speech he had
been warned by mutterings from the Irish
benches that a storm was gathering. He
could hardly have expected the suddenness
with which it broke, Tor with his half-fn.
ished reference 70 Herod there came from
the Nationalists loud roar.
Much More Effective Than Closure.
Chamberlain tried TO talk on. His voice
was inRudiible to the members on the
next bench. He turned toward the Ma.
tionalists, and shrill yells of execration
sounded above the uproar. I. p. O'Con-
nor sprang to his feet and leaning toward
Chamberlain shouted Judas" so loudly
that the epithet could be heard through
OUT the house. The rest of the Irishmen
took up the cry and for half minute
shouted Judas" in chorus. Meantime
the clock struck 10. Chairman Mellor
tried to put the closure, but his voice
could not be heard amid the shouts of the
Irish and the Unionists. Then came a
scene unprecedented in parliamentary his
tory. Mellor gave the customary d'rec-
tions to clear the house for division As
the disorder subsidized preparations were
made to execute these directions
Tories Refuse to Quit the House.
The Conservatives, however, fatty re-
fused to quit the house. Weary Gibbs,
Gibson Bowles and William Hamburg
shouted to the chairman that he must
first call O'Connor to order for having
called Chamberlain names Mellor pro-
tected that he had not heard the epithet
in question. Nobody told him what
O'Connor had said, so he sat helpless and
unenlightened before the house, while the
members crowded forward in excited
groups, shaking their fists and shouting
their demands. Gibbs, Bowles and Han
bury got together and to make themselves
heard shouted in chorus at Mellor: "Will
you direct that those words be taken
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