IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2546, 24 August 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, August 21

Mr Gladstone intends to suspend the rule respecting new business after midnight to-night, in the hope of passing the closure resolution at one sitting, A vigorous crusade ig being carried on by the Catholics of Connemara against the Protestants, and many outrages are reported. There are still twenty-nine pages of the Home Rule Bill left untouched. Notice had been given of no less than 350 amendments upon going into Committee of Supply. The Times says that the Premier, by his resort to closure, has incurred the nation’s resentment.

The Standard characterises his action as inarching through despotism to failure.

August 22

Mr Chamberlain’s amendment to the proposal to apply closure to the report stage of the Home Rule Bill was rejected by 201 to IG2. The Premier’s motion was carried without a division. Mr Chamberlain said that the action of the Government was unprecedented, and it was impossible to rely any longer upon the sense of equity or the honor of the majority, owing to the votes of priests, moonlighters, and illiterates, whom the Parnell Commission had convicted of conspiracy to destroy the Kingdom. The Premier replied that the motion was intended to secure the liberty and efficiency of Parliamentary discussion. In moving the application of closure, the Premier pointed out that the House had already spent seventy-four days on the Home Rule Bill, which was more than double the time which any important constitutional measure had ever occupied. It was the duty of the Government to prevent the Conservative party paralysing Parliament,