The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-17
WELL RECEIVED.
The Irish Party Endorses Glad
stones Home Rule Bill.
The Premier on Entering the House
Was Treated as q King.
Dillon. pavttt and o'Rrien Transmit TO the
Irish iiherty supporters la America an
Acceptance oi tho >chene ~ Is
nclleSed the Measure WIN rs.ss.

LoNpON, Feb. l5.-The following
statement of the contents OF the home
rule bill has been officially handed 10 a
correspondents
The bill offers Ireland a legislature,
a free deal in all Irish affairs and On
executive government responsible to
that Legislature. In all the main prin-
ciples. and in the political machinery
II is provided much better than the
bill of 1856. The Irish parliamentary
party at meeting specially summoned
after the delivery of Mr. Gladstone's
great speech. cordially accepted the new
home rule bill as satisfactory scheme
of Irish national sclf-government, sub
iect to endeavors in committee TO have
modified the proposed financial arrange
ments and to have the time shortened
wherein the land question is to be with
held from the purview Of the Irish ma
tional legislature. We are authorized
by the party to transmit this resolution
to the friends and supporters Of Irish
liberty in the United States and Cana
da. JoHN DILLON,
"MIcHAEL DAvIrr."
New York, Feb. Is. The Times cable
says the success achieved 10y Mr.. Glad
stone was the most complete and I'M
questioned of all his many successes,
How fully this is deserved the corre-
spondent says, may be gathered from
the fact that every unit of the diversi-
fed groups talks as IL there never was
doubt of the home rule bin passing.
The Tribune London cable says of
Mr. Gladstone that when he entered he
received the reception of king. The
resounding cheers swelled through the
chamber and rose again in the same
chorus as he began his speech. When
he ended there was cheers. but what n
contrast to thosewhich greeted him first!
There was still the note of personal 10y
atty to great chief but the wild en-
thusiasm was audible no more The
attention given him at first deepened
into perplexity and ended in a visible
encouragement His followers were
disappointed in the speech as an effort
of oratory, and puzzled by his account
of the bill, strangely meager on those
points vital to the measure, and lacking
in clcarness. He was far from being
the Gladstone of other days, and was
not even the Gladstone of the earlier
days of the session. His figure was
never quite erect, and often il was inn
possible to catch what he said.
LoNnoN, Feb 15.~-Wm. O'I3rien, NJ.
p. for Cork, says Of the home rule meas
ure: THE main lines of the bin are a
noble and sufficient settlement OF the
national claims. We are able to heartily
recommend Irish acceptance of the meas
ure ltgives substantial control over our
domestic affairs. The second cham Der
will probably be considerable of drag
and the franchise of goo will probaly
I insure n ma ority of the members of
the council for the tory landlords, who
are certain TO combine against any ex-
travagant proposals on the part Of She
popular chamber. This will not be u
stumbling block, however, as the ma
tionalists do not contemplate a revolu-
tionary programme
Mr. John Burns, the labor member
for Battersea, said that he was greatly
pleased with the bill, although from a
democratic point of view IL was not an
ideal measure. lie objected TO the veto
power reserved to the crown, to the
second chamber and especially to the
election of that chamber by limited
franchise. Mr.. Burns added that, not
withstanding these objections, nc would
certainly support the rieasnre. Mr.
Gladstone spent an excellent night ard
arose at his usual hour in hearty con-
dition, afterward proceeding 10 the
house of commons to listen to his lead
! ing conservative antagonist, Right Hon.
A. j. Balfour.