Show In the oose of Commons LONDON May 2In the House of Commons tonight Healy moved that the first clause of the crimes bill be so amended ad to indicate clearly what portions Ireland would be applicable He suggested the words proclaime districts be omitted and that Kerr Londondery and Belfast be inserted their stead Balfour Chief Secretary for Ireland declined accedato this proposal He said the government intended to apply the clause to all parts of Ireland where the prevalence crimes justified such action Mr Healy asked if bloodstained blood-stained Belfast where troops had been shot and policemen murdered was to go free while the miserable rack rented districts in the southwest were to be punished 5 Mr BalfOur replied that the goTern ment wguld exercise erfectimpartiality iji suppressing disordereverywhere Laboucure said the scope and aim ol f the bill was to crush out the ationUl i8t leaxing the Orangenien to dotariy thing they 1I1 eti The admin Stratfdrt of the law was so bound up with the orange faction thatit coald not be impartial im-partial I S Mr Gladstone suggested that the words proclaimed districts remain I but the districts be defined under other clauses of the bill > j Th answet of Mr Balfour that all districts would be treated impartially was not sufficient because the ministers minis-ters bad often Teferrecl to p rtcular parts of Ireland where the bill was meant io operate No doubt the people of Belfast regarded with disgagtanc horror the prevalence of diiofder in their midst but the same apology wo fJ equally good for other districts Hear hear The conduct < of some persons it Belfast recently stained Irelandmon than the conduct of tbe people any 1 ntber p rt of Ireland hid Cheers rKe niepdjoeiit proposed by Healy tbjtvjnqnin je held only when vide vi-de i < hadb f3iuwithheld account of intimidation was rejected 206 to 110V After a discussion which lasted two hpnrs and a half Healy moyed that the high court not the AttorneyGeneral empowered to order the inquiry Gibson Solicitor General for Ireland replied that government was unable to accept the amendment < Gladstone rising replied to the 5 I statement by Elliott that be I Gladstone was responsible for the I equally strong system of five years and said Elliott overlooked the I essential difference namclyhis bill had been directed against crime while under I I un-der Cries of OhIOht I At least be added the present bill was directed against not hitherto considered crimes Any way be would not renew his former proposals because be was convinced they aggravated the evil Haldane Home Rule Liberal proposed pro-posed as a substitute judge for high court Healy assented S W H Smith First Lord of the Treasury Treas-ury amid cries of shame moved to enforce the clotures The motion was carried257 to 135 Gladstone and other opposition leaders walked slowly into tbe opposition opposi-tion lobby while the Parnellites and Gladstonians stood cheering wildly Healys amendment was rejected 26L to 142 Nolan moved to report progress on the bill WH Smifh said the government was unable to agree to this because only nine of the 140 amendments to the first clause bad been disposed of Later however progress was reported re-ported |