The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-21
|MR. REDMOND'S ATTACK
IMENACING MOVEMENT AGAINST
 CONSERVATIVE MINISTRY.
His Speech, an UncompromisIng De- maamd for Home Rule, Kept Gale Ieries Interested ana Alert
 Till BEadmimht.

| London, Feb. 20.--In moving, as an lamendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne, the dec- Ilaration that "the present system of government (of Ireland1 is opposed to Ithe will of the Irish people," John E. Redmond led the Irish Party in the House of Commons today in an attack ministry more of menace than lay In
 the fiscal debate precipitated by Mir. | Asqulth's amendment last week. The Redmond amendment was carefully cal-
 culated. in fact. to undermine the Gov ernment's majority. Interest in the debate was intensified by a we'll de- fined report in the lobbies, and which quickly spread elsewhere, that the Earl of Dudley had resigned the Lord Lieu tenancy of Ireland That report, which
 was given wide credence, put heart in the Nationalists who made the attack on the Earl of Dudley one of the fea- lures of their speech.
 It was generally believed that the debate would bring out sensational
 scene, but while anything of this char lacter was entirely lacking throughout 1.-the afternoon and night sessions, the critica1 situation coupled with the lclever tactics of the Irish-Nationalists kept the galleries interested and alert Euntil midnight, aa
 Mir. Redmond's speech was an un- lcompromising demand for home rule. He directly and unsparingly charged Individual members of the Irish admin listration with incompetency. Both Mir.
 Redmond and MT Moore (Irish- Union Iists) who followed, made & special Ipoint of what they termed the shame tfui treatment" of Sir Anthony MacDon- lnell. in connection with the now fa- Imous differences in the ministry over the evolution scheme
 Mir. Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, delivered straightforward ex- Iplanation of how these unfortunate misunderstanding arose. Tn doing so he paid a splendid tribute to Sir An thony Mcdonnell, who he said was asked to aLcept the post of Under Sec Iretary, not In the capacity of an under I ling, but as a wise and able colleague. MT. Wyndham said he had given Mac DonneII free hand to deal with the situation. They had discussed the sLt-
 uation together He knew that Mac Donnell and Lord Dunraven had been considering a reform scheme but he did not know all the terms of their plan. MT. Wyndham said:
 "I had often discussed reforms with
 Mcdonnell who, with his Indian ex- periences found analogies between my
 ideas and ideas he had formed in India l Here came the first source of serious | misunderstanding. I, with a collosal | ignorance of Indian affairs, did not know that a semi-elective council exist l ed in India and therefore 1t never oc-
 cured to me in my conversations with l Mcdonnell that he had in mind any
 board partially elected as part of the
 reforms of which approved. If had thought he had any such Idea would
 have told him that 1t was in my judge
 ment quite impracticable."
 l Mir. Wyndham said he was absent for holiday when the revolution scheme
 was published and that when he re-
 turned without consulting Mcdonnell
 he wrote to the papers denounclng the l executive councils feature. | MT. Wyndham said the cabinet neveg had doubted MacDonnellis loyalty, but had simply recorded itself as not ape proving the action of an under -secre. | tary who had approved of scheme | without first submitting it to his chief.
 MT. Wyndham admitted that MacDon-
 nell was perhaps justified in taking his | approval for granted.
 l The night session was taken up by | T. W. Russell, Winston Churchill and
 others who bitterly assailed the gov-
 and the Earl of Dudley's administra-
 ton. The rumof of the resignation of the Earl of Dudley quickly spread through the House of Commons, but
 late tonight the Lord Lieutenant's Sec
 retary declared the rumor to be un-
 founded.
 A cabinet meeting has been sum- moned for tomorrow to discuss the situation.