Show In the House of Commons LONDON Feb lBIn the commons today day the secretary of war replying to a question said pending the result of legal proceedings taken by Sir William Gordon Cummings in the baccarat scandal the department would not retire any other officers This evening Morley in accordance with the notice previously given moved that the house adopt a vote censuring the Irish executive committee for its action in the Tipperary prosecution Ho referred to the incarceration of OBrien and Dillon in prison and said this was tho climax of the prosecutions Ho had not been hostile to the police until after seeing what pitch and demoralization brutality and lawlessness the agents of Balfour had I been brought to by Balf ours standing up for their every act right or wrong Cheers Referring to the trouble in Tip perary which he witnessed Morley said the police adopted a course on that occasion for which in England Colonel Caddell and every man concerned would have bean cashiered The police used brutal ferocious fero-cious and absolutely unprovoked violence of which any disciplined force in the world ought to be ashamed He was astounded that Balfour accused him of exaggeration He Morely was ready to attest anything in court It was no fault of his that an action had not been brought When the coercion act passed it was not intended that cases like those in Tipperary should be withdrawn from a jury The bench there was deliberately packed The selection of Magistrates Shannon and Cronin was about the most monstrous act Balfour over committed It was the prostitution of the tribunal Morley then proceeded to denounce the vindictiveness of the Irish executive whose actions which would not be for a moment tolerated Eugland had alienated the people of Ireland Russells amendment amend-ment alleging that the action of the executive execu-tive was made Imperative by the activity of the Irish conspiracy was an admission of the failure of the coercion act The time was rapidly bringing the day nnar when the government would be brought tt an account Russell unionist ridiculed Morleys statements and upheld the action of the Irish executive insisting that the advice of Dillon and OBrien had turned Tipper ary once one of the most prosperous towns in Ireland into I place us desolate as i swept by an avenging army Gladstone expressed surprise that the government countenanced evading tho main accusation against Balfour Assailing the authors of the plan of campaign was not an answer to the charge By garbling the evidence the government aimed to exclude ex-clude the people from the protection of a jury in order to let the executive work their will upon their opponents The government gov-ernment had thus effected the compulsory exclusion from the hojsc of two of the ablest Irish members at a period when all sides felt that the country had special need of their service Dpubtless the houso would again distinguish itself by voting confidence in the government This however would not avert the coming doom nor obscure the overgrowing evidence that the country was determined that their fellowsubjects in Ireland should soon enjoy en-joy the same precious and invaluable liberty possessed by Britain Great choersJ Gladstone left the house at the conclusion of his speech being Indisposed Debate was continued by Smith government govern-ment leader McNelll Corbett Esmond ands others but interest flagged until Balfour arose when the house filled up again Balfour attacked Morley for going to Tip perary as a wire puller a course which no privy councellor ever took before But for his presence the Tipperary riot would not have occurred Balfour warmly I defended tho magistracy and declared I de-clared if being magstaoy abuse va I held t disqualify a magistrate the Irish agitators would raise such a vltupreation that trial would be Impossible Who for example could beselected to try Healy 3 I the government was defeated at the general election its successors must elthoc adopt its policy of suppressing boycotting and intimidation thus branding their pres out speeches as hypocrisy or Ireland must be given over to anarchy He believed I the long run the verdict of the house tonight to-night would be endorsed by the country Harcourt McCarthy and others spoke and Morleys motion was rejected 820 to 245 245Russells amendment was then called up but Healey moved an adjournment After a long debate Balfour said he did not attach at-tach great importance sa t a vote of confidence dence since the censure motion had been rejected and the debate was adjourned and I will probably never be resumed I |