The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-30
GLADSTONE'S FINAL FIGHT.
The Premier Pushing His Closure
Scheme Through,


That Resorted to Under the Sails
bury Regtme-Gladstone Makes the
Opening Speech of the Debate.
London, June 20.--In the house of COM
mons to-day Mr.. Gladstone moved tho
adoption Of the resolution, the terms of
which were read in the house yesterday,
providing for quicker passage Of the Irish
government act Chome rule bin. In
speaking to his motion Mr.. Gladstone
said the government would not feel justi-
fed in sanctioning any intermission in the
business of the house by proroguing or
adiourning parliament until the home
rule bill was passed and the supply
voted The resolution was absolutely
necessary. II was as considerate as
he could possibly contrive. Without
resorting to some method of closure, 1t
would take more than twelve months to
pass the bill in committee of the whole.
The character of the amendments was
such that if they were adopted they
would destroy the bill. The government
had other important measures, which he
hoped the house would have time to deal
with.
BALFoUR REPLIES.
Mr. Balfour, leader Of the opposition in
the house, here asked: "How can pro-
posals curtailing liberty of discussion of
the home rule bill be a necessity,
when the prime minister in
the same breath states that
there is plenty of time to settle other
questionsl Mr.. Balfour said il was
par4p expediency and not parliamentary
necessity that inspired the resolution.
hut "a ,f
ment during the whole session were ade-
quate to the home rule bill. The govern
ment wishes to evade discussion on a new
constitution affecting the United King
dom. Mr.. Balfour denied that there was
q parallel between the closure resolutions
of the conservatives In 1887 and the pres
ent resolution. The crimes bill of 1887
was urgent, while the home rule bill was
not. He defended the amendments to the
bill, saying that though they were numer-
Gus none of them we're obstructive. Never
had debates conducted in committee of
the whole more regard for the rules Of
the house, nor had amendments offered
more relevancy to the subject matter of
the bill they were proposed TO improve.
REJECTION MOVED.
H w. Russell, champion Of the men of
Ulster, moved rejection of the resolution.
Joseph Chamberlain, leader Of the lib
eral unionists, spoke at length against
the governments plan for curtailing the
debate in the committee stage. In 1887,
he said the liberals had resisted the gov
ernment's closure proposals as cutting the
roots of parliamentary institutions. Had
the gentlemen now leading the liberal
party forgotten the indignation and alarm
to which they then gave utterance} If
not how could they Justify
themselves in adopting much harsher
methods than those used by the govern
ment in 1887 Where could they find an
excuse for getting off debate on such a
momentous measure as the home rule bill,
which imperiled the life of the country,
which abolished the treaty of union that
had existed between great Britain and
Ireland for 80 years. The object Of the
resolution was virtually to gag the chief
contracting party to the union. Nothing
more monstrous had ever been proposed
the house.
DENOUNCED FOR SILENCE.
Sir Edward Clarke, conservative, de-
nounced the government in not noticing
the arguments of the unionists. This
silence, he said, was such a cheap piece Of
parliamentary discourtesy as has not been
before recorded.
MIR. Chaplin, president of the board of
agriculture under the Salisbury admins
tration, criticised the ministers hardly
less sharply for their refusal to debate
the resolution, and eventually moved that,
as a protest against the conduct of the
ministry, an adjournment be taken.
Sir VIM. Harcourt replied briefly to the
opposition speakers. The prime minister,
he said had fully explained the object of
the resolution and had stated the govern
ment's reasons for introducing it. The
arguments given in his speech had rem
dered superfiuous any further discussion
on the part of the government.
Mr.. Chaplin's motion to adjourn was
defeated by vote of 30S to 279.
Mr. Russell's motion to amend practic-
ally so as to reject was defeated by a
vote of 306 to 279.
MIGHT HIDE A GIGANTIC ERROR.
London, June 30, o. MN contln-
uing the debate on the origi-
inal resolution, Jesse Ceilings, liberal
unionist, declared that in sitting
the amendments the government
might hide another gigantic error like
the one that rendered necessary revision
of the financial clauses of the home
rule bill. He accused the government of
intending to evade altogether discussion
of the land question.
Ferdinand De Rothschild, liberal un-
ionist, moved that the house adjourn.
Everybody was anxious, he said, to fol-
low the prime minister's example and go
to bed These words were greeted with
cries of ''shame" from the liberals, aud
he speaker reproved Mr. De Rothschild.
Sir William Harcourt reminded the
house that every hour wasted in such
futile discussion shortened the time in
which the bill must be got through the
committee stage.
In urging the government to assent TO
an adjournment, Joseph Chamberlain
made a cutting remark concerning MIR.
Gladstone Twenty liberal and irish
members cried SHAME" and somebody
shouted "Judas" The speaker inter
rupted the discussion to rebuke the un-
identified shouter
Mr. Balfour made a final appeal to the
government toaccept Mr.. De Rothschild's
motion to adjourn.
REFUSAL TO ADJOURN.
The house then divided on the motion,
which was defeated by a vote Of 253 TO
257.
Viscount Cranbourne, conservative,
moved to adjourn for the reason that the
ministers were not inclined to allow at
that late hour dispassionate considera-
ton of the amendment proposed.
Messrs. HarcOurt, Balfour and others
spoke on the motion.
Thomas Sexton, anti-Parnellite, accused
the opposition of trying TO force an all
night sitting upon the house and then
trying to back ouJ.
On the division MIR Cranbourne's mo-
tion was lost by vote Of 270 to 242.
At $3.50 o'clock Charles COnybeare. rad
ical, moved closure.
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