The Portland daily press., 1893-09-09

Cheers and Laughter Greeted the Result
Inside-Outside, the Police Kept the
Great Throngs Moving for Fear of an
Outbreak-The Debate Was DuIl-The
Vote Resulted 419 Against the Measure
to41 for 1t.
London, September SIN the House
of Lords tonight, Baron Halsbury, Baron
Herschell, Baron Monkwell and the
Bishop of Ripon spoke on the home rule
bill to half empty benches. After 9
things livened as members and visitors
began coming and the galleries showed
few vacant seats. All the notable church
dignitaries were present and members
of the House of Commons crowded the
standing room around the throne. The
lobbies were crowded. Outside of the
Parliament Houses, bands of conserva-s
tive workingmen gathered to incite
jubilant demonstration On the expected
rejection. An Irish home rule bill de-
tachment from the Radical working
mems clubs and Irish societies also ap-
peared on the scene. AS brawl was
feared, the police broke up the different
groups and kept them moving.
The debate in the House reached the
acme of dullness in the Earl of Morley's
maunderings against the bill. Lord Sal
isbury rose to speak at 1890 amid raptu-
rous cheers. He said that throughout
the debate the question constantly pres
ent in his mind was, why had the gov
ernment introduced such bill? On this
point the House had received no suffi-
cient enlightenment. In dealing with
the retention of Irish members at West
minister, which was an outrage on Eng
land so enormous and SO grotesque that
it was a surprise that it had ever found
place in proposal emanating from
responsible government, the Lord Chan
cellor, Lord Herschell, had declared he
was not inclined to associate himself
with so desperate a clause, but would
prefer some other arrangement. The
secretary of foreign affairs lord Rose
berry,, in his speech, also had avoided
the burning subjects underlying the gov
ernment's policy. Much had been said
of the benefits of autonomous govern
ment, but had there been for century
statesman bold enough to propose that an
autonomous colony should send eighty
members to the imperial parliament
representing no interest in England and
bound by no responsibility with respect
to the possible application of laws that
parliament passed. The absurdity of
such proposition was enough to send
| II man to Bedlam How could they get
rid of the Irish question in the presence
of eighty members seeking to make
themselves marketable wares in negotia-
tions with the ministers? Would these
men, sent by Archbishop Walsh, be quiet
on questions of religion and education?
What appeared to shine visibly... through
all the arguments was that home rule
was policy of despair. What moral or
political rights had any government to
embark on such an experimental policy
in Ireland divided to her base by party
conflicts which during seven centuries ef
English rule had rather increased than
diminished? Representative government
never f1ourished on a soil where homo
geneity was wanting
Lord Kimberly briefly replied to Lord
Salisbury, and the Lord Chancellor
then put the motion for the second
reading of the home rule bill. The House
divided at midnight and the result was
the rejection of the motion by d vote of
419 to Al. All the bishops went with the
majority. The announcement of the
result was received by laughter and
cheering The House then adjourned.
At midnight a Zionist demonstration
was held outside the building.