Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-26
Irish Patriot Drops ThundefJs>SsLrIng Ip
Political Circles. ~A 4
RESIGNS AS A PROTEST AGAINST WAR
This Action, with Redmond and 0'Brien
Incidents, Shows Irish Feeling,
MANY LIBERALS ARE DISSATISFIED
Colonial Secretary is Kept Busy Making
Dsnials and Bx plantations.
SAYS HE NEVER SUPPRESSED TeleGRAMs
Dehies TINT He Refused TO Meet
Montague white, the Agent of the
TransNnnl, ana that lie Never
Asked nn Audience.

tTopyright, 1899, by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON, Oct. 25.-(New York World
Cablegram-Special telegram Michael
DaVitt,the Irish patriot has dropped a
thunderbolt in political circles.
In the House of Commons today after a
powerful Indictment of the war to subju-
gate the Beers, he declared amid intense
silence, that he would resign his seat in
the House tomorrow as a protest against
the Transvaal war.
Mr.. Davttt denounced the lingo press and
said that the war, for the meanest and most
mercenary aims, would be known as the
greatest crime of the century. He declared
that II he had been offered home rule and
an Irish republic he would not accept them
If accompanied by the condition that he
vote for the war. AS a protest he would
ask to be relieved from attendance in the
House. He had been in the House for five
years trying to obtain justice for Ireland,
and he left it convinced that mo cause of
Justice and right would have the support
OF the House unless backed by force"
This action by Davitt, following closely
the forcible expulsion of William Redmond
from the House and the suspension Of Pat
rick O'Brien for saying that Colonial Sec
yetary Chamberlain's hands were dyed as
Itu WITH DlOOl Us JHOSe vi lue MOISI blui
derer that ever mounted a scaffold," mark
the deep feeling of the Irish for the Beers.
Many liberals also are dissatisfied. Thus
today, during the debate on the second read
ing of the appropriation bill, James H. Dali
ziell, liberal member for the Kirkcaldy dis
Hrict expressed the opinion that one of the
greatest difficulties in arriving at set
Element with President Kruger had been
that, rightly or wrongly, the president had
believed Colonial Secretary Chamberlain
and Cecil Rhodes were Identical He said
MIR. Chamberlain had given grounds for that
belief by suppressing telegrams, whereupon
the cononial secretary tartly interviewed,
saying:
81 have never suppressed kilograms.
have not got them"
MIR. Cu...uueriaiip also denied that ne mac
refused to see Montague White, the agent
of the Transvaal, who, the colonial secre-
tary added, had never applied for an au-
dience.
The speaker, William Court Gully, inter
yened at this juncture and declared fhat al
references to such matters were out OF order
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Michael Davitt II
the member for South Mayo He Is o.
wears old He has suffered deeply for th'
cause OF 1relanu III iooS ho "' :,
began to work in a Lancashire COTTON NIL
An 1856; lost his right arm by machlner
in 1857; Joined the Fenian brotherhood II
1865; arrested and tried in London 10
treason and felony in 1870 and sentenced u
fifteen years penal servtude; released o'
ticket of leave in 1877; founded the Ian
league in 1879; arrested in 1881 ana sen
hack to prison. released in 1882; arreste
in 1883 and imprisoned for three months
elected to Parliament while convict
Portland prison; returned from nor'He"S
Cork in 1892.