Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-28
GLADSTONE SUSTAINED
Balfour's Attempt to Secure q
 Vote of Censure Defeated.
THE DEBATE IN THE COMMONS.

rhe Grand Old Man and Secretary Morley
 Defend Their Irish POlIcy-The Liberal
 Leaders Discuss Their PositIOn-HO
 Rule Bill to Have a Second Reading
 on April 6,
 LONDON, March 2S.-Mr. Balfour, leader of the Unionists spoke at length on his mo- tiou. of which he gave notice last Thursday that the Irish executive be censured for condoning serious offences and thus bring ing the law into general contempt He made his attack upon the government with exceptional vigor and evoked repeatedly loud cheers from the opposition benches
 The present deplorable state of affairs in Ireland Mr. Baltour said, was largely the consequence of a compact between the gov ernment and the forces of disorder. The ministry had made with the Irish party an agreement by which the administration of the law was being defeated. The govern ment had fomented outrages by suspendinR the Crimes Act, and had instigated crimes by the release of the dynamiters, The gov ernment had not hesitated to take steps which were in direct antaGonism to the de cisions of the courts.
 He stated that the practice of boycotting naNl DeCn FSNlNSu HI bIl Us pristine u8u- ness and vigor and that the government had taken no steps to protect the victims. These outrages could not be expected to cease before the Chief Secretary for Ire land should rally his courage, frec him self from tine trammels of his previous policy and use in the defense of the law the powers which parliament had entrusted to him.
 In answering MT. Balfour, Mir. Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, di rected atten- ton to the fact that the leading charge against the government, by Mir. Balfour was that they had concordat with the Irish party. He would not deny that the present administration tried to: govern Ireland in sympathy with the Irish peo- pie, If that was tho heinous conc ordat he would plead guilty to being party to it. As to the specific charge that he had re fused police protection to those who en- forced the law, he would say that he had declined to protect night seizures and he felt justified in this action. The law on the subject was far from clear and the highest authorities differed in their inter ruption of it.
 Mir. Merely proved that under the pres ent executive agrarian crime had decreased II per cent.
 After a few uncomplmentary remarks by Y. w. Russell, of Ulster and Smith Barry, of South Huntingdon, Mir. Glad stone reproached the opposition with re sorting to u license of language which they could not possibly justify with facts. He stated that he had as great desire as any of his predecessors to preserve law and order in Ireland, and that the government had submitted mildness and clemency for coercion. and that the result had proved thus far successful.
 Lord Randolph Churchill, after alluding to Mir. Gladstone's "fascinating eloQuence,' pronounced the proposed vote of censure to be more than justified by Mir. Morley endeavor to hush up and conceal Irish crime from the knowledge of Parliament. He severely arraigned the Liberal party after which division on Mir. Balfour's mo ton followed, which resulted in majority of 4i for the government, the vote standing 3l to 2H2