The Opelousas courier., 1893-09-09
War in Parlinlent.

The bright and witty N O. States
gives the following amusing account Of
the recent "rumpns in the British
Parliament
A speech from Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain made in the House of Commons
yesterday precipitatcd row between
the advocates and opponents of Irisl
home rule which assumed the proper
tiOns of a riot before The members could
be Quilted in their seats. Mr.. O'COnnol
an Irish member, denounced Mr.. Cham
berlain as ''Judas," and the mex, mo-
ment there was an uprOar and free
fight and every bead that cropped up
above the benches became target for
clinched fist. Tho elegant new silk
tile of Mr.. Tim Healey was smashed SO
we'll down over his eyes and rendered
so absolutely fat that the wrinkles be-
tween the brim and the crown were as
numerous as those of the bellows of an
accordeOn.
No sooner was the hat of Tim Healey
smashed than the nose of Mr.. Hambuy
shared the same cruel fate, and while
the battle was raging the tiercest, Mr.
Redmond charged upon Col. Sander I
son the member from Ulster and turned
that gentleman upside down, but the
latter's friends rescued him after he
had received a t!lump on the left eye,
which shut out the bright light of day
from that particular optic, and then
tuning on Mr.. Redmond slugged and
uppercut the stately front of that gen
man in q manner which must have been
painful to witness.
While this was going on and the air
was full of profanity and slashing arms,
Mr.. John Logan, another Irish member,
who had been waiting for an opening
dashed in upon Mr.. Carson, Tory
member and the nose of the latter was
in imminent da pger of being flattened
out like that of Dahomeyan when two
OF his friends seized Mr.. Logan by the
scruff of the neck and threw him head
long to the floor, then bundled him up
in really rudI manner, and without
any regard whatever for his feelings
stuffed nim under u bench as the bait ie-
Rue roared and surged aroGnd them.
Nothing more was heard from MIR.
Logan. At least, !. careful persual of
GiO dNSUAuO OE tbE OOCS BDt IltH-
ton the fact that Logan responded TO
the slogan Of bis faction, and the sup
position is that like the scientific mem
ber of the Society of the Stanislaus,
whose abdomen had been assai!ed with
a piece of red sandstone, the treatment
which Mr.. Logan received took all the
vim and spirit out OF him and "the sub
sequent proceedings interested him 10
more"
Other members of the Honse were
also roughly handled nnd fired back
wards and forwards over benches and
chairs, in way suggestive of high per
fection in acrobatics. The fracas was
so full Of snap and push and ginger
that it recalled the informal aDd spirit
ed interninglings which used to be SO
frequent at Donnybrook Fair.
Of course Mr.. Gladstone was shocked,
even more than the men who had been
tumbled over the floor and Jared by
blows, and it is stated that he gazed
upon the row with flushed face and
with an expression of sorrow, indigna-
zion and astonishment, because it was
perhaps the most disgraceful scene that
ever occurred in Parliament. Finally,
however, he succeeded in restoring
order and the house proceeded with its
business, while Col. Sauuderson held
a bunch of keys to his purpling eye,
Mr.. Redmond rubbed his bruised head,
Mr.. Healey gazed sadly at the ruins of
his silk hat, and Mr.. Logan presumably
under the bencb.-N. o.
States, July %, 1893.