The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-16
Irish Land Bill AbSOrbS
Public Attention.
Procedure POitnS Withdrawn.
Press Criticisms.
British Parliament Wrestling With
A Vexed Question at Present


commons yesterday, Gerald Balfour.
chief secretary for Ireland. announced
that the government withdrew those
sections OF the Irish land bill relating TO
procedure before land courts and de-
fining improvements upon landed prop
erty, whether made by landlord or ten
ant
Mr. Labouchere and Mr.. Morley asked
what were the intentions of the govern
ment In case the bill should not be passed
before the middle of August, when the
house is TO adjourn. Mr. Balfour replied
that he did not know.
Mr.. Harcourt delivered fiery speech.
denouncng the government for gross
mismanagement OF public business.
Mr. Dillon. the leader of the Irish Ma
tionalist party, spoke In condemnation
of the Irish land bill. and declared that
the Irish members would force the gov
ernment to produce better measure at
the next session of parliament.
Joseph Chamberlain replied to Mr..
Dillon. Mr.. Chamberlain said that the
Irish in recent years had had a monopoly
o. the time of the British parliament.
England, he declared, would not allow
Ireland to monopolize the time OF the
longer. With a reasonable time for dis
cussion OF the measure, he said, the bill
ought 10 pass within the present session.
Mr.. Harrington, Parnellite, said that
the bill was by no means a bad one. and
he hoped that the government would
persevere in putting 1t through.
Mr.. Healy, anti -Parnellite. claimed for
the Irish members a reasonable time for
the discussion OF the bill
IL was finally announced that the gov
ernment would proceed with the Irish
bill today.
The political situation growing out of
the critical status OF the bill continues
to absorb large share of public atten-
ton. and the relative influence of the
various government leaders, as 1t is af-
fected by the disposition of this bill, is
studied with keen interest
The Standard, the Conservative organ.
notes the part which Joseph Chamber
lain, the Liberal Unionist colonial Sec
retary took in the house OF commons
yesterday. in the presence of both Mich
ael Hicks Beach, the Conservative chan
cellor Of the exchequer, and c. j.
Goschen, the first lord of the admiralty,
as showing that he may now be regarded
as the deputy leader In the house of
commons.
The Times, in an editorial the out
look, says: Yesterdays proceedings in
parliament do not specially rebound to
the credit Of the government. Ii is to
be hoped that when Arthur Balfour (the
government leader in the house of COM
mons) reappears In parliament today, he
will take a clear and decided line. 1t
would be an objectionable blunder to
persist in the delusion that important
and difficult work, which could not be
done I'M five months, can be squeezed into
@ single month.
The Times correspondent in parlia.
ment predicts that the opposition of the
landlords TO the irish land bill and tho
disagreement between the Healyites
and Dillonites on the subject, will COM
pei the withdrawal Of the bill by the
government. l.. III. Carson, the Con-
servative member for Dublin university
does not conceal his intention TO resist
the passage of the bill as it now stands.
The Daily News, the Liberal organ, in
IN editorial, asserts that IL does not
deplore the absence of Arthur Balfour
the government leader, from the discus
sion OF the government program in the
house OF commons yesterday. He would
have gilded the truth, says The Daily
News, which Mr.. Chamberlain unblush-
ingly disclosed In it's nakedness. Mr.
Chamberlain does not drape himself
with decorous excuses. He plays a game
OF bluff in manner that would excite
the envy OF Tammauy.
The lobby correspondent of The DailS
News says that IL is the general opinion
there that the Iyish land bin is dead.