The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-05-02
NAT|0NAl|SIS mem.
BERS NOT 0U1W|TTED
Refusal of O'Brienites to Vote and
Snap Divisions have no
Effect
Fake Telegram Calling for '"Snap
Vote Deciphered---No Risks
Taken
Failure of Tory Plot to Capture
Army has Sobered Belfast 4

Failure of Tory Plot to Capture
Army has Sobered Belfast
Up to and including April 8, there
were 65 divisions in the 1914 ses-
sion. The official records show the
following attendances by members OF
the Irish Parliamentary party: Abra-
ham 65, Boland 65, Boyle so. Brady
81. Burke %. Clancy 60. Condor 81.
Cotton Ga, Crumley 81, Cullinan IS.
Delany 64, Devlin So. Dillon So. Don
elan 81, Doris So, Duffy 65, DR.. Es-
monde As, Sir T. Esmonde 81. Far
rell IS, Ffrech 60, Field 81. Fitzgib-
bon Sc, Flavin 65, Gwynn So, Hack
ett 65, Hayden 62, Hazleton 81.
Joyce 65, Keating %. Kelly So. Ken
nedy SO, Kilbride 81. Lardner 81.
Law Sc, Lundon 65, Lynch Ga, Mac
Neill 81, Macveagh 81. M'Ghee 81.
Meagher "a, F. E. keehan So, P. j.
Mehan So, Molloy IS. Mooney 60.
Muldoon 81, Murphy 46, Nannetti
46, Nolan 65, Sir w. Nugent 4S. Pat
O'Brien 65, John O'Connor 81, T. P.
O'Connor So. O'Dougherty 81. o'Don-
nell So, o'Dowd 81. E. P. .O'Kelly
Ga, J. J. O'Kelly 80, O'Malley So,
O'Neill 81. o'shaughnessy 6s. o'shee
60, o'sullivan Sc, Phillips 60. Reddy
so, J. E. Redmond IS. VIM. Red
mond Z, w. A. Redmond 81. A.
Roche 62. John Roche 0, Seaman so.
Sheehy 81. smyth So. White 81,
Young z. 2....,.-.-,--......s.,....u...
Nj. John Roche. N. r, the veteran
leader of the Clanricarde tenants, has
been too i'll to leave home; Mr.. VIM.
Redmond, M. p, has been abroad,
incidentally doing good work for the
cause in Australia, New Zealand,
Canada and the United States; and
Mr.. Samuel Young, M. P, is in his
oath year. The record Of the Party
is a splendid one, however consid-
cred. It will be noted that Mr.. John
Redmond, M. p, the chairman of the
nartv. did not miss a single division.
The O'Brienite Record.
The attendances of the O'Brien-
ties, whom Cork City and County
have sent to represent them in the
British Parliament, were as follows:
Attendances in 65 divisions In
Session 1914, up to and including
April 8: Eugene Cream 0. John Gui-
ney 1, James Gilhooley 0, Maurice
Healy 1, Tim M. Healey 6, William
O'Br;en 0, Daniel Sheehan 0, John
Walsh 0.
But this is not all that has to be
placed to the account of Mr.. VIM
O'Brien and his followers. When the
division on the second reading of the
home rule bill was taken on April
6, they sat in their seats and refused
to vote for the bill, after Mr.. Tim
Healy had made a speech denounc-
ing the bill and declaring that 1t
would have been better for ireland
If the home rule government had
been beaten and the Tories had come
into power. "Our names will be re-
membered," said Mr.. Healey. That
action of the O'Brienites has aroused
in ireland is an indication that the
memory of their conduct will not be
forgotten.
Tory Trick Defeated.
Beaten at every point and on ev-
cry issue since the session began, the
tories fell back upon the trict of q
"snap" division for the day of the
adjournment for the Easter recess
At late hour the previous night. an
amendment to the motion for the ad-
journment was put down by Tory
member, and the next day telegram
addressed to tory was picked up. II
read: "Seely nominates Asquith Pre-
miership three O'clock" Take the
first letter of each of the first four
words, and you get "Snap three
o'clock" Neither the Irish party
whips nor the government whips
were taking any risks. They had
their men present in strength. and
the Tory trick failed. So that the
Tory record for the session. SO far,
has been one of absolute failure
from beginning to end. And not
only that, but their last hope Of in
tim.dating the government or the
country failed utterly when the Cur
ragh Camp incident blew their army
conspiracy to fragments.
Mr.. Asquith's Return.
The decentralization which has set
In in the Tory ranks received forci-