New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-04
THE NEWS OF EUROPE.
MR. GLADSTONE'S MANDATE FOR HOME
RULE. AND IT'S SOURCE.



IN uGANDA-ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN
CHINA-BEHEING sEA-BILLIARDs.
tBr CABLE TO TRIBUNE,
Copyyjoht; 1893; BY The Tribune Associotfon
London, June 3.-The favorite Gadstonian doe
trine of Home Rule mandate from the people
has been again dealt with this week nv Lord
Salisbury and others, and the fiction exploded
for the hundredth time. Neither during the six
years which intervencG between Mr. Gladstone's
surrender TO Mr.. Parncll and the general cleo
ton. nor during the general election did Mr.
Gladstone ever explain announce his Home
Rule policy. Entrcaties and taunts were thrown
away on him. lie maintained a stubborn silence
You have only to recall the intense curiosity with
which the bill awaited at the opening of
this session. No man outside the Cabinet, and
outside the Irish group, knew what the bill
would contain. what Home Rule now
to mean. Mr.. Gladstone's own majority in the
House did not know. Still less did the electors
who composed his majority in the country. How
could they give him mardate to carry out
o policy of which they were ignorant? Mandate
there was none. What the electorate did was
70 give him. not mandate but blank check.
and not for Home .Rdle only or mainly.
The election notoriously and confcssedly turred
on other issues. The Newcastle programme had
more to do with such Gladstonan successes rs
won in England than Home Rule had. I'll"
asked for a majority, saving in effect, that IL
he got it he would do with it what N" liked
The electorate gave il to him on those terms
To that depth Of political degradation had the
democracy sunk for tho first time In history IL
gave the Empire into tho hands of man VINO
contemptuously refused to say what he was going
70 do with il, or by what means and 10 what
extent he proposed 10 dissolve the UNION "e'"0""
Great Britain and Ireland.
Great Britain, it cannot ne too often SAID. re-
yused 10 be a party to this surrender England
pent a majority of seventy-one TO tn" Hous" oil
Commons 70 oppose him. The legislative contract
between Great Britain and Ireland is TO oe oroKeh'
IL broken at all, against the VIII OF urea.
Britain Home Rule is I, be carried, IL carried
AZ all hr that very Irish majority of which Mr..
t;,adstone in 1855 warned the country not to
fntrust the decision of this momcntous issue
II there is any mandate it is an Irish mandate
That is the real situation. 1t Is precisely "s il
the question whether, in ls6o ana lo"i' u"
South should he allowed TO destroy tn" mon
had been left TO the South TO determine we
valued our Union We can hardly blame the Eng
fish if they value theirs.
The weeks PROCEEDINGS in Committee on iion'c
Rule have been full of interest and slsnhcahce
AT least three amendments OF cNtrctne nhpor'ai''
have been moved and debated, ana certain c'"-
cessions of importance hav" been cNtof'eu ''o'"
Mr. Gladstone always after resistance Away
with obvious doubt whether the Irish would hot
mutiny against them and him, and never ''ii
after much time had been consumed Iile nie"
for three DAYS sat scowling and ANXIOUS WIN
tlcse parleyings went between the frihe MIL
s. ana tho Irniorists The Ministerial ma
iorties. which last week exceeded their Norman
figure, have this week IalIeh s'ca"i'' ~
bne case 10 twenty-five.
This last was on Lord WOlmer's amendment ior-
bidding the Irish Legislature to pass resolutions
bn subjects on which they are forbidden 10 pass
bills Dublin, he pointed OUT might seriously
cubarass the Imperial Government by resolutions
on foreign policy. II there was quaTrel WIN
France, the Irish might, and probably wouid' siue
spitb France and against England, and the reso-
tuition OF Legislature would be lar more
serious matter than sputterings OF treasoia"ie
dsloyalty in Irish papers, or Irish speeches Irue'
answers Mr. Gladstone. but you cannot prevent
tbe Irish Legislature from expressing its opinion
on any subject it pleases. There is no remedy
but force even if you put a prohibition into the
act creating tnat Legislature. Profoundly trn"'
replied Mr.. chamberlain, and others, and equally
true of every other, or nearly other. prohi-
titon in the bill The paper safeguards are all
hut worthless The machinery for enforcing them
will be unworkablc, and all will turn at last
on the question of force MIR. Gladst"hes
admission has done his cause world OF
stones admission has done his cause world OF
har;i. 1t has opened eyes that were closed, and
reduced his majority at once one-half.
The proposal to forbid Dublin TO grant votes
In supply, except proposal ny the Crown'
kgniGed hy Minister in the Imperial fariia-
ment, was negatived. but it will come up again
on a suggestion by Mr. Gladstone that II deserves
consideration. The police question provoked u
lively debate The I'nionsts would restrict thc
Irish Legislature to creating local police. Inc
Irish want A central and movable force TO be
sent, as Mr. Coschen said. 10 put down Belfast.
Mr. Gladstone again gave way in part. There
is to oe no new force analogous 10 the present
Royal Irish C0nstabulary. Finally, last nigh',
came the question of carrying and using arms ana
whether Dublin may forbid drilling and arnea as
sociations. Then, at last the orpanized silence
of the Irish was broken. FRS; Captain Nolan, ana
then Mr.. Sexton, protested. Mr.. Sexton s'erhN
rebuked Mr.. Gladstone for accepting amendments
without having obtained the permission OF the
Irish. lie complained 10 the chairman that he.
Mr. Sexton. had risen twice yesterday. and had
not been called upon Mr.. Mellor humbly apol-
ogized. Mr. Gladstone apooeized and assured Mr.
Sexton that he anxious TO know Irish
opinion. lie nevertheless admitted that there
mus; be restriction Irish legislative power
over this arms question. and this matter. Like
ethers Is TO come up again
There il growing alarm and growing anger
on the Gladstonian side. and especially among
the Irish. at the course of events in Commit
tee, and the slow progress of the bill. Clause
third is still under discussion. and ninety amend
ments are still to be proposed to this single clause
Yet the critical part OF the bill will not b.
reached till clause nine is reached and from that
on to clause twenty
Already you hear predictions from experts in
parliamentary procedure that the Home Rule bill
will never come out of Committee alive. 1t has
been still further delayed by a long discussion
on Irish crime especially in Glare, and especially
with reference to four attempts to murder an Irish
landlord, guilty OF refusing to harbor moon
lighter. This debate was heated, Irish men,