Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-03-15 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

PAR LIAMENT.  House of Lords.—Friday.  A brief discussion took place on the subject of the relief from fees given to parents sending children to State-aided schools in Scotland, and a resolution was agreed to postponing the hour of meeting on Tuesdays until half- last 5.  House of Commons.—Friday. Mr. Bolton took the oath and his seat for North St. Pancras, in the room of Mr. Cochrane-Baillie, now Lord Lamington.  Notice was give-n by Mr. Jennings to move an addition to the First Lord of the Treasury's motion for the adoption of the Report of the Special Commission, recording the condemnation by the House of the conduct of those who were respopsible for the accusation of complicity in murder brought against members of the House, which accosation had been discovered to be btu ed mainly upon forged letters, and declared by the Commission to be disproved. The adjourned debate on Mr. NV. H. Smith's motion was resumed by Mr. J. M'Carthy, and continued by Sir H. James, who pointed out that the only way open to the House of dealing with the Report was to inscribe it upon the record or to accept it and then deal with each finding. Mr. Gladstone's amendment accepted thereportandexpressed gratitude for sonic of its findings, but passed by the rest as if they were either erroneous or of no importance—a course which was neither dignified, logical, nor just. The issue was really narrowed down to what palliation could be found in the circumstances of Ireland for the acts of those who had been adjudged guilty by the Commission. Reminding the House that the murders and other outrages committed between 1879 and 1882 were not perpetrated by mere camp followers, but were :ncited by the leaders of the Land League, at the time when the League was in the plenitude of its power, he emphatically denied Mr. Gladstone's contention that those things were incidents in a struggle on behalf of liberty and against oppression; and warned the right hon, gentleman that the promulgation of such a doctrine might quicken the action of many a doubtful man who was hesitating whether he should commit crime or not—Mr. Asquith recalled the attention of the House from side issues %%inch had been fully debated so long ago as 1881 to the actual charge brought against the Irish members, which was that the Land League was nothing but a cloak and pretext for a system of organised treason and outrage, contrived, controlled, and paid by men who still eat in that House. That charge in every one of its particulars had been found by the judges to be disproved. The findings against the Irish members were upon charges which implied no moral obloquy ; and if the Government, by a party majority, induced the House to adopt as its own a mass of judicial °Lar dicta upon a number of the most intricate and complicated questions in economical, political, and social science, it would be one of the first duties of the next Parliament to expunge from its journals a record which would be a reproach to the generosity and the fairness of the House of Commons. —The discussion was continued by Mr. C. Hall, who dwelt upon the connection which had been established between the League and the dynamite party in America; but when Mr. Wallace rose to speak the House was "counted out" at a quarter to 9 o'clock.