Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-15
THE NEW ADDRESS.

There Is Not a Word About Abolishine ti:t House of Lords In the Revised Reply. Harcourt Ridiculed, but His Substitute Was Adopted.
 LONDON, March l5.-'rhe government has escaped from the embarrassing position in
 which it was placed by the sudden move of the Radicals. The amendment to the
 queens address calling for the abolition
 of the house of lords has been rejected, Sir William Harc0urt announced that | the government had taken advice from all | available sources and had decided to make | the declaration that the judgment given
 in amending thr address did not show a
 mature and well considered decision of the | house of commons. This was d grave 1 question, he said, and the government | would not present the address as amended
 to the queen. Consequently the govern l mcnt proposed to bring up new address
 amounting merely to an acknowledgment | of the speech from the throne. He offered the following address: MosIas }RACIoUs SOVEREIGN We. your maj | csty'> most dutiful and loyal subjects of the | house of commons of the United Kingdom of | Great Britain and Ireland, in parliament | srmbled, humhly assure your majesty that the l mea-ur recommended for eur consideration
 
 we Leg leave [" thank your majesty for the
 most gracious speech which your majesty has
 addrcssc to both house, of parliament
 EIadc Sport of uarv"urt. Mr. labouchcre, amid cheers and laugh 1 ter, dttendei! his amendment. the success | of which was abunlantly justified. It was
 not intended to hinder the ministers in re- | gard [" these purely formal documents, | the queen speech and the address i'll rt- | ply thereto.
 | The close of tine proceedings Ill the house
 was quite farcaI. the members treating
 the matter as a huge joke. When Sir Will
 liam Ilarcourt moved the substituted ad-
 dress, Mir. Edward J. Saundcr~on, Con- | scrvatiNt member for North Armagh asked
 whether it Was not the mmemoriul prac- 1 tice cries of 'What do you know about | it" for a member moving an address to
 wear d uniform beiitting his rank. Loud | laughter and cries of "Ordcr.' Continuing, Mr. Saundersou said, II de | sire to move an adjournment of the house | for 20 minutes in order to allow Sir Will liam liarcourt to array himself in suitable
 garments" Loud laughter. Sir William Harcourt who was inter-
 ruptcd continually by ironical cheers and
 laughter said that it was not necessary to l notice NIT, SaundcrSOn'S $ remarks, adding | that he opposition evidently >lw in it ;ln | opportunity to treat the speech from the
 throne with levity. Renewed cri>'s of
 ''OrtlcG'!,' ''Go on"' etc
 l Sir William HarcOurt thcreupOn remark
 ed that he would proceed when the ''Geu- | tlemen opposite have assumed sufficient | gravity" The house then rejected the
 amended address to the queen speech and | passed the address substituted by Sir Will
 liam Vernon Ilarcourt. The house then
 adjourned.
 The Times this morning. commenting
 upon yesterdays prorerjling,S ,Sl the house | of commons, says that the ministers were | bound to destroy Mir Lanouchert x amend
 ment. They have done 50 in q way which.
 if unprecedented and somewhat grotrSQue,
 has answered the purpose
 An Irish Manifesto. The following manifesto, signed by
 Messrs. John E. Redmond, Timothy Har-
 rington and Joseph Edward Kenny, has been issued:
 | FELLOW COUNTRYMEN-The solemn words of | warning which we recently addressed to you
 have been justified moro speedily than we an- | ticipated. The premiers first official declara- | tion proves the correctness of our judgment in cautioning you to place no blind confidence iD | him or his cabinet. The position of our cause | is rendered still more perilous by the savish
 silence of the majority of the Irish representa- | tives and their action in parliament in first voting closure of our criticism of the govern
 ment policy and then giving their votes direct | ly in support of the Irish administration and | Its policy of eviction, house burning, prosecu- | tion and jury packing. No crisis grave has l arisen in the history of Ireland since the death | of our late chief. We feel it to be our first | duty to appeal to you for consultation and | guidance.
 | With this in view we shall summon a na- l tional convention to be held in Dublin on April | to organize without delay. We draw no mar | now distinction which would exclude men who | recognize the national danger and willing | to share in an endeavor to avert it.