Show IIISll llO1 RII llIL Gladstone Moves a Second Reading Read-ing of the Measure XO AMENDMENT OFFEEED In Fact the Government Has Xo Intention Inten-tion of Amending Tue Ircmler 3IaKe n Great Speech In Advocacy of tho DIeasiirc Tho Kcply of Sir Michael flicks Beach LONDON April 6The galleries of tho house oi commons were crowded but the house itself was not full when Gladstone rose today to move a second reading of the home rule bill Gladstone said the government had no intention of amend lug the bill as presented He earnestly desired to bring home to the mind of the house the question when this great con ro7orsy was to end He did not address the question to the opposition in a spirit of assumed superiority but would rather press it earnestly upon their hearts and understandings as a matter in which both ides alike arc interested The Liberal party offered a solution but when they asked their opponents iyiier all thki was to end they barely obtaib tl Su answer Certainly the opposition bid noSyet vet > tuned to point out a process whereby thi greatest of Irish questions should bo do ° ided aside from the way in which the home rule bill proposed to decide it Gladstone then proceeded with the his tonic development of the rise and causes of the demand for home rule The progress ef events in the past century cen-tury had proved the fallacy of the argu mont offered by the opponents of home rule that timo and patience would see Ireland pacified without special legisli lon Let the house said he look at tho spectacle the world offers in regard to its unman In the civilized world no incorporated incor-porated union effected and maintained by force has ever prospered Hicks Beach interrupted to ask Take the case of the united States Gladstone replied I said incorpor ted union You missed the essential word Holland t nd Belgium tried incor > oratcd union and after a precarious ex stence of fifteen years divorce was effected Austria and Hungary tried its orpurated union and after years of sad experience found the choice lay in giving up it or the empire Russia incorporated Poland Take your stand thereon if you think fit Let the opposition make its model of heir operations to all unions But one principle can be applied and that 19 xhether they require permanent main enance by force If when force disap pears harmony remains union is good if the maintenance of union by force is necessary the value of the union is questionable ionable Unions not incorporated but autonomous have been attended in all cases with success sometimes complete and always considerable In conclusion Gladstone referred to the etentidn of Irish members in the impe ial parliament During the last sixty years cabinets have been displaced twelve times by a vote of censure and not once was the issue purely British Bight were imperial and four Irish Therefore less inconvenience ought to be expected froni Irish members voting on British ques lons than had been anticipated Regarding Re-garding finance Gladstone said it was no easy matter to disentangle the financf of countries associated for the last ninety years The trouble was merely dustin the balance compared with the vital importance import-ance of tho great purpose aiming at the real union of the two countries and consolidation con-solidation of the empire If the house was not satisfied with the security offered under the existing financial clause bill fee vas ready to deal freely with the question and recast the clauses objected to f Rejection of the home rule biljr wm moved by Sir Michael Hicks Beaejr He taunted Gladstone with avoiding criticisms criti-cisms of the bill The north of Ireland was rank with protests against the proposals of the hift yet the prime minister ignored this agitation If a majority of the electors of Great Britain was convinced nnl parliament was once persuaded to take the step now proposed it could never retract it without plunging the country into the horrors of civil war REtIRING SEA CASE A Very Dull Session of the Court on Tien torday PARIS April 6The morning session of the Behring sea court of arbitrators was dull even the eloquence of such pleaders as AttorneyGeneral Rnssel and J F Carter failed to awaken interest even members of the court seemed bored and It was noticed that the august head of Sir ohn Thompson one of the British arbitrators ar-bitrators frequently nodded suggesting the awful susoicicn that ho was tempted to slumber in closing his answer to Mr Phelps proposal to exclude the supplementary supple-mentary report of the British Behrinsr sea commissioners Sir Charles Russell contended ended that the objections of the United States to the report on the ground that it was not subject to control or cross exami nation anphed equally to a large mass of evidence in the United States counter case In conclusion Sir Charles urged upon the arbitrators the necessary determining deter-mining question of right before dealing with the regulation seal fisheries In reply Mr Carter remarked that it was not the custom of the American bar for counsel to introduce his own personality person-ality in the case so as to lend weight to his arguments therefore he himself would not follow the example set several times by counsel for Great Britain Ho pointed out that when the unitea states delegates arrived in Paris the case so far as argument argu-ment was concerned was finished and both cases and countercases had long been closed The United States government govern-ment is of opinion that it has much reason rea-son to complain of Great Britains conduct con-duct in the case but this had been passed over They believe the only thing to bo done was to return the documents as the time for submitting new evidence was long past Wo would not impute bad faith to the British government said Carter Car-ter at the same timo we hold our opponents oppo-nents proceeded on an erroneous interpretation inter-pretation of the treaty of arbitration JIOKIIIBIE ATKocrrrEs The hahn of Klielat Cruelly Puts to Death Five oi His Wives BOMBAY April 6 Further information informa-tion in regard to the atrocities committed by the Kahn of Khelat are to the effect that suspecting five of his wives of infidelity infi-delity he caused them to be cruelly put to death The kahn has agreed to deliver to the British Indian government the surviving nersons whom he was reported as torturing As a punishment for his conduct the British agent will withhold 40000 of the 100000 rupes allowed him as subsidy and will devote it to the benefit of the families of those unjustly executed The kahn has been on the throne since 1S57 and has been generally well conducted con-ducted heretofore Afiniri Chill IqUIQIJE April ffA telegram froa the same source from which alarming reports re-ports were received yesterday concerning I the situation in Chili states the condition condi-tion ot affairs is exaggerated by previous statements that martial law had not been declared at Santiago |