New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-14

r,urp RECEIVED WITH TCMULTCOCS
,,urs1AsM WHICH WAIVED TO THE END
or,rorIc>L POWERS NOTICEADLY
,vpNCEp-NE\GEE IMPOSITION
rP VITAL POINTs-AN AN
ALYs1s OF THE COM.
pLEX MEASURE
rsy CABLE TO 1HE rRlrrNE.l
<spyr,e,t 1898. By me Tr'tv"e As'oe'otion.
,..dn, Fob i3-It was quarter to / when
Gladstone rose 10 introduce his second and
~. Home Rule bill At 8 o'clock he had
.had He spoke 10 q sympathetic House and
r..urirr world I!c had with him the eXrecta-
-. of "a Great English party and the eager hopes
". majority of the Irish people. He had, when
.r,ar,d the House. the reception Of king
-, rasoundins cheers cf his supporters sWelled
.,.o,yh ,he chamber As never heard them before.
TLu,. rose again ir the same chorus OF comln-
.I;nmrb Is he began his speech When he cndcd
~ ver, cheers: but what a contrast to thoS"
.h;ob greeted him first There was still tho note
=, n.rsonal loyalty 10 a great chef. hut the en-
.tnsiosm and confidence were audible no more.
nTo uouse had given him throughout its best
-, on both sidc. 1t was at first on his
.rn side. joyful and more than hopeful; IT D.
-. as he went on. strained and ANXIOUS; II
S..,.nel into perpc>ity; and ended, not certainly
:, Sesnair. Nut in a visible dscouragemcnt' Ills
eo,hvers were disappointed in the speech as an
-. Of ora1orv and even as an effort OF oA-
,os;,;op They were puzzled by his account OF
-. hill conious on many minor points, strangely
uoorre on those which are vital 10 the measure,
=, who're they were labored, rs on the retention
:, N. Irish members at Westminster strangely
lacking in clearness
Ve spoke from more volumlnous notes thah l
ovsr saw bin use and his reference 10 them was
.ons.snt: vet, even with this help, lie seemed
overtaxed He was very far from being the ""i
s,one of other days: be was not even the "lau-
stone of the earlier days of this very session
The ever-youthful buoyancy had vanished, the
noble head was bowed. the figure never quite
e,ec, the face ashen white The voice came faint
ard far Often and often IT was impossible TO cater
what he said
The surprise was the greater because az 'ne
h.r;nn;nr the tones had been full ami strong,
and the music of them was as varied ana match
Ioss % over the cadences rising and falling with
all their old beauty. Before the exordium, Just
bar an hour long was over the voice mad begun
70 fail and from that time on il grew thln' sIhk-
;rr some,nes 70 A whisper which hardly reached
.oross tho table. The force and splcndor of the
r,ea, orators speech were gone. Its pathos re-
mained. He summoned his strength together at
tho end for his pcroration, which still had little
os his old yiecr. but all of his old grace.
When he sank into his seat. not few OF TINS
great audience felt that such speech could only
he the prelude 70 disaster The bill is one which
a statesman in the prime Of great powers would
need all his powers to carry. and 1t Is only 'oo
rlain that Mr.. Gladstone's energy Is no longer
spoutsneous and irrepIe essble as of old
4 complete estimate of so complex measure OH
single hearing, and that difficult TO follow, Is
of course impossible but there are features oi IL
which came out clearly, and some of them are thoS'
which are commonly reckoned the Vita features oil
any measure for setting up statutory parliament
in Dublin IN all there are seven points which
NAV be called cardinal: and three, if not four, OF
them are Of the essence of Home Rule. Conslaere'
from the English point o! view, the seven ar"
Imperial supremacy. the imperial veto. safeguard
for Ulster and the Protestant minority the re-
tention of the Irish members at Westminster
and their legislative powers when there th'
judges and corstabulary, the land question, an'
finance England lays almost equal stress OF
each Of the first three
II may be .aid that any Home Rule bill mus
stand or fall according as it succeeds or fails II
How, then. does Mr. Gladstone deal with them
lie reeeates Imperial supremacy TO Tn" prtanoi
of the bill, and confles the authority of the I'm
perial Parliament to parenthesls Nithou
mpsirlng or restricting the supreme authority o
the Imperial Parliament" If he has provided
any machinery for asserting it dir city, he omite
TO say what, or perhaps his account of it was in
audible. The veto may be one means, the appc1
10 the Privy Council another
The veto question turns on the other question
by whose advice the Crown is 10 exercise H. !
by advice Of the Imperial Ministry, it may he ct
fective: if by advice of the Irish Ministry II i
iusorv M Gladstone has found Il cOmprom sc
The Viceroy is 70 apply his veto with the sane
ton of an executive committee, formed, If | hear
Alright, from the Irish Privy Council. HAT seem
TO create difficulty, rather than TO meet 1t
There is, in addition 70 the veto, a provision by
which acts OF the Dublin Parliament may hc sub
mtted TO the Judicial Committee Of the Englisl
Privy Council, on the initiative of the Niceroy o
Of the English Home Secretary.
There was a provision of similar import in th
bill of 1856, bat the machinery providol w1' o
the toughest sort, and unworkabl". We sial
know what sort Of machinery i now pfoVhc
when the hill has been printed. IL Is, In an
case, process requiring time. ihc value oi III
veto, which would be summary If a scnuln
veto, must depend wholly on :h" composuo
Of the executive committee on whose adNlce I'll
Viceroy is or is not TO exercise IT,
Then CONES Ulster. lister and tho iIo'cS'ah
minority are simply left to shii; Tor thcihScNc
There are no safeguards there Is no attempt
protection. Mr. Gladstone content, hnDSpli VIII
belief that the Irish Catholics VIII he iliI, II
lies on historical rcm!risccnce Of dou''iul 20
nj hone
eaange her mind, accept the Government she Ia
Vowel TO resist, and on hands with the Ho'i"
Catholics as according to Mr. Gladstone rea'
Ing Of history, She did hundred years ago. III"
Is the satisfaction he offers 70 the conscience d
Protestant England that is thc promise he hoi
out 10 Protestant Ireland. lie plainly thiAfS i
Owls Tho Enni1sh Nnnnnnfnrmisf con ns.lcLcn, an