The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-03-18
THE STRUGGLE
BECOMING HEATED
The Tories Are Using Every Means
to Exasperate Situation and
Waste Time.
The Prospects Now Are For a Grim
Prolonged and Exhaust
ing Fight
The Support Of the Irish Party Has
Already Saved the Ministry
Loss of Prestige.

This was expected to be a week
off in parliament, as the veto bill had
peen postponed and all the excite
ment which it creates for the moment
was suspended. The ministry, in
addition, was compelled to call a halt
BY the necessity OF getting a vote on
the budget and appropriations, says t.
r. O'Connor in his cabled message TO
the Chicao Sunday Tribune.
Every member OF parliament thus
anticipated a pleasant and quiet 1T
tie interval during which they could
safely visit their homes or the sea-
shore, but the intense passion which
now stirs England everywhere to its
depths made all of these calculations
mscarry. The week wound up with
one of the most prolonged and eX-
cited sittings for the last two years.
The Tories never forgot the veto
bill, and played for time every mo-
ment of the session, They have or
gan:sed q flibustering. campaign
against all Of the government busi-
ness. and discuss every penny of pub.
lie money to inordinate lengths, and
never allow even the most trivial pro-
posal to pass unchallenged, and, in
order to further exasperate the situa-
ton and waste time, their speakers
throw across the floor OF the house
of commons epithets of insult at the
ministers and all their opponents.
Churchill as Party Leader.
The absence OF Premier Asqulth,
who has gone to visit his sick daugh-
ter, and the fact Lloyd George is com
PEELED to take further vacation be-
cause of the obstinacy OF the malady
in his throat, threw the leadership
of the Liberals in the commons into
the hands of Winston Churchill.
This helped to bring an extraordi-
nary scene in which the week cul-
minated. Young, audacious, and ag-
gressive, Churchill drove the Tories
to fury and insisted OH applying to
them the most drastic form Of clos
ure and demanded that the budget
bill should be pushed through by any
means and at any hour.
This resulted in scenes Of great
violence and in sitting which, be-
ginning about 3 on one afternoon, did
not end till 1890 the next day.
There We're moments when passion
ran so high as to threaten an outDurst
of physical violence between the
members of the different parties, but
the characteristic English good sense
and love OF fun and the absence OF
vindictiveness came to the rescue and
the sitting passed off without any vio-
lence except in speech.
Irish Loyal to Liberals.
The leaders of the Irish party, even
the oldest among them, sat through
the night rallying and encouraging
the Liberal ranks and thus saved the
Liberals several times from defeat or
from such small majorities as would
amount almost to defeat.
The ministerial majority ranged
from sixty to seventy throughout the
night, but without the Irish members
this majority would have descended
six or seven, which, in such a crit
ical and passionate time, might have
amounted to a disastrous blow to the
ministerial prestige anu the great
campaign against the house of lords.
The Tories, in season and out OF
season, make violent remarks on Ire
land and the Irish members In pur-
suance of their settled policy of con
centrated campaign against the gov.
ernment and the veto bill on the
home rule.
Expects Bitterness to Grow.
Though the Tories still are making
no way and though the home rule