New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-11
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London. June 10.-lhe week ends it began,
with clause three of the Home Rule bill still under
discussion in Committee of the House of Commons.
The closure has been freely applied, and debate
kept within narrow limits, important as are some
of the proposals discussed Criminal conspiracy,
sedtion, shipping, customs duties, alienage.
Whether these anG other matters not less serious
shall be within the legislative jurisdiction of the
Irish Parliament. surely fair questions TO raise
and to debate The Irish and Radicals would cut
them all of by the closure, it theS could. The
Ministerial majority has varied. sometimes ap-
preaching fifty. sometimes approaching thirty, but
the average has been below forty.
The sittings, though important, have been dull,
except on Monday. when Mr. Chamberlain raised
the question of privilege fabricated and
purely fictitious report in The Daily News, of
proceedings in the House last week Thursday.
That veracious organ described al imaginary scene
in which Mr.. Gladstone was continually insult, d,
and hy Mr.. Chamberlain most grossly of all.
Mr. Gladstone, in Il speech of admirable dignity,
told the House that nothing of the kind had nc-
Cured, and the question of privilege was dropped,
Mr.. Balfour expressing for his party his high
sense of Mr.. GladstOnes services. Excuses were
offered for the organ, and repeated by the organ
next morning. The report was parody, 1t
appears Let us assume il intended TO be,
though very bitter one l;ut there was nothing
TO indicate this TO the ingenious reader.
If it has been a dull week in committee, not so
in tic iobbies ana caucusos nor in the private
coIincils of Mni;ters and their supporters Two
Gla0stonians have abandoned their party. Mr.
Bolton and Mir. Saunders: d third Sir Edward
Reed, has lcvolted against Irish dictation, which
is pretty mu:h fhe same thing as withdrawing
himself from the jurisdiction Of the GlaGstonlan
whips; and fourth whose name need not be
mentioned just yet, Is under grave suspicion of
disloyaty. Mr. Bolton is voting against his
party. Mr. Saunders contents himself with not
voting for tlem. lie is absentee. Sir Ed
ward Reed holds himself free to do either saying
II will do what 10 that Home Rule
does not, under Irish dictation, injure interests
which far exceed in Importance any Irish ones. ;"
He will do his best also to prevent its already
surprisingly large provisions from heine further
enlarged in Committee.
The crack of the Irish whip is louder than
The Irish Nationasts have looked angrily
while Mr.. Gladstone was making, as they thought.
concession after concession 10 their enemies Ii
supposed he had learned his lesson Inst week,
when Mr.. Sexton rebuked him and he apologzed
and promised to behave better in future and accept
amendment without the permission of his
Irish friends But discipline" had to bo applied
again early this week. Again the warning voice
Of MIR. Sexton was heard, and since it not
needed the whole anti-Parnellite party suddenly
broke loose and voted against the Government
sixty English, Scotch and Welsh Radicals fol low
ing. them into the lobby. The particular question
at issue was of no great consequence. II was the
moral effect which they aimed at Ministers werc
indebted TO their opponents for majority II
the Unionists had chosen TO vote against them
they would have been left in a minority Of 100
Meantime. between Mr.. Gladstone and some of
his other supporters there Is no slight degree Of
friction. The Radicals, who care comparatively
little about the Home Rule bill. which is Mr.
Gladstone's all in all, keen to press it in
order TO make room for measures which do interest
them. They have put every kind of available
pressure on their rcvcrcd leader 10 coercc him int
coercing the Committee At present be reests
knowing better than these mpulsve gentlemen
what can be done and what cannot be done in the
House of Commons Their mpaticnc. takes
shape in public suggestions in the press that they
understand leading the House Of Commons better
than Mr.. Gladstone does. "The Daily News re-
buked him for talking too much, and not him
only but some of his colleagues They held Mr..
John Morley up 70 rdcule garrulou-. They
applauded Sir William Harcourts conduct Of bus-
ness and gave it to be inferred that if only Sir
William We're in command, Home Rule and every
thing else would 80 swimmingy The Radicals
got together to talk things over, and il was an
nounced that Radical and anti -Parneitr Cab-
nets" were being held Mr.. Labouchcre held one
Of his own in Northampton, and echoed the com
plant of the organ he has sold out of "Mr.
Gladstone talks too much,' cried the eminent
guerilla. for whom the takative MIR. Gladstone
could find no place in his Government. Mr.. Lucy,
whose Judgment is cooler and less biased says
tho thing more eaboratcly in print The
redoubtable Mr.. T. p OConnor says it. also
claborately and also in print
The still more redoubtable Mr.. Sexton has rc-
signed his seat in the House Of Commons or of red
to resign II. This act is not directly due, 1t appears,
TO despair, hut arises out Of the old Freeman 5
Journal quarrel, which the Irish party differs
from Mr. Sexton, and said so yesterday. But Mr..
Sexton, though tedious, is their best Parliamentary
hand. His retirement would leave the patriots
with Mr.. Healy for leader. and Nr IIcay is odious
70 the House. lie cannot or will not, observe the
ordinary decencies Of speech and of Parliamentary
hfe II he could, his abilities and knowledge Of
the forms and rules Of the House would make
him far more formidable than he is to his oppo-
nehts, and far more useful to his party Each
Of these perplexitcs might. if il were only
one. be passed over, but their very number makes
them both significant and dangerous
Worst Of all, perhaps. from the point of view of
the American idolater, Mr. Gladstone's strongest
and most radical supporters are publicly admitting
the impossibility Of passing the Home Rule bill
this year. Even the belief that the Home Rule
bill will never get through Committee is spread
ing il is the all but unanimous opinion. hear,
Of the press gallery, where sit some OF tho best
Judges. 1t has been avowcd by "Thc Daily
Chronicle" the abcst Gadstonian journal in Lon
don, and as certainly devoted partisan of Home
Rule. There is growing concurrence of opinion
that there must be an appeal to the country be-
fore any Home Rule bil, whatever can become law
II is perhaps well, though not to the Glad
stonian taste, that in these circumstances oppor-
tunities Of sampling the opinion Of the country
should occur. There have been no bye-clcctions