Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-18
FOR ARBITRATION.
Ysnszuslan Boundary Dispute the Sub
Jet Of Debate In Parliament.
DILLON AND SIR WIN. HARcouRT'
They Hold That the British People
Are Overwhelmingly In Favor Of
Peaceful settlement of the DIM
Guilty.

LONDON. February T.-In the House
CT Commons to-day Mr.. James Francis
Hogan, member for Middle Tipperary.
asked the government when the COM
mission to consider the matter OF lay
ing a Pacific marine cable would as
semble.
Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secre-
tary OF State for the Colonies. said
that the time OF the meeting OF tpe
commission would not be decided until
the names OF the members Of that body
had been received by the government.
Mr.. George N. Curzon stated that
the government had no knowledge that
Russia had been invited to occupy
and police the Turkish territory or
Asa Minor. Such an act on the part
of Russia, he said. would be a viola
ton Of existing treaties.
The House took up the debate on
the amendment to the address In reply
to the queens speech. moved on FRI
day by Mr.. Timothy Harrington, Par
nellite member for the Harbor Division
Of Dublin. favoring release Of the
Irish prisoners.
Mr.. John Redmond Parnellite) made
an impassioned speech, in which he
said that the feeling throughout Ire
land was In favor OF amnesty for the
Irish political prisoners. The use OF
dynamite. he said. had originated with
Irish-Americans. who were regarded by
Irishmen generally as being mad and
reckless. All Irishmen, he declared.
now concurred In the belief that the
had arrived fho Of
clemency toward the Irish political
prisoners. The Irish, Mr.. Redmond
said, were blamed for their lack of
sympathy with England in her foreign
complications They would be hypocrites
If they were to pretend that they were
in sympathy with England. Were these
hatreds, he asked. to exist forever?
He hoped rather to see the day when
England and Ireland would face the
world hand-in-hand He appealed to
the government to hasten the day of
the release Of an old and dead moment
Of passion and madness. Qrish cheers.)
Mr.. Balfour said that the govern
ment must follow the regular practice.
The quinquennial revision of sentences
would occur In year or two, when the
revision would be applied to the Irish
prisons with absolute impartiality.
Professor Lecky, the historian, was
loudly cheered as he rose to make his
first speech In the House, urging clemen-
cy for the Irish prisoners.
Mr.. Balfour moved closure, which was
carried by vote of go to 107, and Mr..
Harrington's amendment was rejected.
VENEZUELA.
Mr.. Atherly Jones, a Radical member
for Northwest Durham. moved an amend
ment to the address In reply to the
Queens speech. deploring the absence
from the speech from the Throne OF
an assurance that the whole boundary
dispute with Venezuela would be dealt
with In accordance with the suggestion
OF the United States.
Mr.. Atherly Jones declared that Great
Britain had changed the boundary, and
asked how II could be claimed that the
territory in dispute could be outside the
pale OF arbitration.
He reviewed the question in all its
aspects. ..
Before the motion could be seconded,
the Right Hon. A. ]. Balfour. First Lord
OF the Treasury, and government leader
In the House. interposed. and appealed
to the House, on his responsibility as a
Minister OF the Crown. not to continue
the debate. He declared that he was of
opinion that a continuance OF the Discus
sion would not serve the purpose Mr..
Atherly-Jones had In view. He, therefore.
hoped that the House, realizing the
gravity Of the issues that were at stake,
would not further discuss on this occa-
sion the policy that had been pursued or
that would be pursued.
Mr.. William Allan advanced Radical,
member for GalesheaO then seconded the
amendment. The whole matter he de-
clared, was a tempest in a tea-cup. Gold,
as usual, was at the bottomsof the trou-
BILE. The whole country in dispute was a
nest of yellow-feyer, and was not worth
fighting for.
Mr.. Henry Labouchere. the Radical
leader, said that after the statement
made by Mr.. Balfour. it was impossible
to continue the debate. (Cries of Hear"
Hearty He hoped that the dispute
would soon be settled to the satisfaction
Of both countries
AMERICA MOST PATIENT.
Hon. John Dillon followed Mr.. La
bouchere He said the action OF the
American Government had been most
patient, and 1t ought to be made known
to the Americans that Lord Salisbury's
address to Secretary Oiney did not ex-
press the feeling Of the people of this
country He was glad to note the Inn
proved tone Of the House. Then Lord
Salisbury had turned his attention to
insulting a somewhat smaller nation than
the United States.
The view of nine tenths Of the people
of Ireland was that the question ought
to be submitted to unlimited arbitration.
II the Ministry tried to plunge the coun-
try into war for an unjust cause, by re-
f,ising to grant arbitration. he had the
right to claim that there would arise
80 nd Trfs
men a voice Of the strongest possible con-
demnation. (Cries of Hear" Hearty
HARcoURT SETS EN- RIGHT.
Sir William Harcourt. the Liberal
leader In the House. said he was glad
that an amendment had been moved
In the interest Of arbitration. but he
did not think that he could insist that
the resolution was the best way to at
tain the end in view. OF course, such an
amendment could not be accepted by the
government. and must. II pressed to a
division. be lost by a large majority.
II that happened II would 90 forth to
America that the House had pronounced
against arbitration, although he was con-
WINGED that that was the end that all
wished to be attained. Cries Of "Hearr'
"Heary)
What the House had to do was to
show that there was a difference of
opinion. He was perfectly certain that
among British people. inside and outside
OF the House, the consensus OF opinion
was in favor Of arbitration. The main
subject was to express such opinion. II
could not be done by joining issue on the
amendment.
He took the opportunity to deprecate
the language sometimes used that Presi-
dent Cleveland had acted from election
motives. There seemed to be q tendency
In certain quarters to think that the