Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16

figure which enriched and ennobled, not
merely the treasury bench, but the
house ITSELF"
Stand Where They Did.
Continuing, Lord Roseberry said:
cit was thought that in the high Of
flee to which I have been called, there
should be a declaration Of policy. That
is not necessary, as we stand where we
did. [Cheers. There will be no change
of measures, and although there has
been a disastrous change Of men, they
are all pledged to the same policy.
[Cheers.
..The same measures remain as they
are, the programme of the Liberal
party, and it is not intended to recede
from any one of them.
1.-THE honor of England and the peace
of Europe are safe in the hands of the
present government.
cite Welsh church question will be
pressed to a definite and successful con-
clusion. [Cheers.]
The Irish Question.
I'm regard to the Irish question, we
are bound to it by ties Of honor and
affection. My speech in the house of
lords in 1898 seems to have raised some
doubt as to my own position in regard
to home rule. Those who have these
doubts can only have read the speech in
q cursory manner. The policy of home
rule will not be less definitely pursued.
If there is any doubt on the subject, one
n1o6oo ubioh Tho GOVERN oor% hoe p;x,or
in this connection is the continuance in
his present Office of the Ri. Hon. John
Morley, chief secretary for Ireland.
[Cheers. Mr.. Morley has been offered
q higher Office, but he thought it his
duty not to sever his career from the
cause of Ireland. [Cheers.]
The House of Lords.
sour illustrious leader, in his last
speech delivered in the house of COM
mons, made declaration with which
the present government have entirely
identified themselves. [Cheers. The
conclusion has long been forcing itself
upon me, that with the Democratic
suffrage which we now enjoy, a second
chamber, constituted like the house of
lords, is an anomaly. The conviction
has been strengthened by the unhappy
chapter of accidents which has turned
the house of lords from a body Of
hereditary law givers, more or less
equally divided, into n great Tory or
ga%nization entirely at the beck and call
Of a single party leader. [Cheers.
When the Tories were in office, the
Iof veto W. o1%t 1-o~,s,ol Is l,..L
when the Liberals are in power, the veto
is exercised at the dictates of the Tory
leader. That is q danger to the con-
stitution to which the Liberal govern
ment is not blind, and they will not lose
sight of any measure which is constitu-
tionally presented to the country to
abolish this great anomaly. [Cheers.
II will not go so far as some Of my
friends. I do not think that the peers
should be treated as pariahs. I do not
think that the fact that a man was
born ina particular position
should debar him from the higher
opportunities Of serving the state, and
do not sympathize with the views Of a
certain deputation which recently Wis
itedSthe Rt. Hon. Edward Majoribanks
Baron Twoedmouth) though I agree
that there is great inconvenience when
the premier is not in the house of CON-
mons.
''I am not one Of those who think that
the peerage should be considered a
stigma and a bar. But, while I remain
premier, you may be assured that no
Liberal in the ranks will endeavor more
steadfastly to do his duty to the party
Loud cheers.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, chan
cellor of the exchequer. followed. He
said that the Tories t1attered themselves
that the Liberal party was going to drop
home rule. But the language of the
premier and the presence of the Rt.
Hon. John Morley as chief secretary for
Ireland was the best answer they could
give to this supposition.
Continuing, Sir William remarked
that Mr.. Gladstone's last speech in re-
gard to the house of lords was an in.
heritance for the party, and asserted
that this question would prove to be the
great subject of the future.