Show I i GLDSTNE IS SUSTINE 1 Balfour Attacks the Government Policy in Ireland A YERY EXCITING DEBATE The Desire of the Government to Preserve Order j 1 After a Prolonged Discussion the motion 4 of Balfonr Is Rejected and the Government Sustained by a Majority ot Portyseven LONDON March 27Ia the commons tonight Balfour leader of the Unionists spoke at length on his motion that the 1 Irish executive be censured for condoning serious offenses and thus bringing tha law into general contempt He made an attack upon the government with vigor 1 and evoked repeatedly cheers from the f opposition benches The present deplorable de-plorable state of affairs in Ireland Balfour Bal-four said was largely in consequence of a compact between the government and the forces of disorder According Ac-cording to the terms of unwritten concordat government had coquetted with amnesty and encouraged dishonest tenants through the evicted tenants commission to disown obligations and treat landlords as lawabiding people i would treau malefactors The government 1 govern-ment had fomented outright by suspending I 1 suspend-ing the Crimes act and instigated Crimea 1 by the release of dynamiters The government had not hesitated to take steps which were in direct antagonism antagon-ism to decisions of the courts A new cours reign of terror had been established Recent Re-cent outrages in the counties of Mayo Clare Limerick and Kerry show plainly how remarkable has been recrudescence of crime in Ireland under the present government In one of these counties intimidation wai carried so far that all writs wore sent through the posts as the bailiffs did not dare deliver them in person The practice prac-tice of boycotting was revived in all its pristine ugliness and the government knowing perhaps the uselessness of prosecuting offenders had taken no steps to protect the victims te vcts In answering Balfour Morley chief secretary for Ireland directed attention to the fact that this was the fifth vote of censure moved within eight weeks The leading charge against the government wasp that they had concordat with and tried to govern Ireland in sympathy sym-pathy with the Irish people Cheers I that was heinous concordat he would plead guilty to being a party tC it As to thespecific charge that he had refused police protection to those who en creed the law he would say that he declined de-clined t protect night seizures and felt justified in this action The law on the subject was far from clear and the highest authorities differed in their interpetration of it Morley then rebutted in detail Balfours assertion that agrarian crime in Ireland had increaed under the Liberal government With a multiplicity o statistics he proved that under the present executive this class of crime had decreased 11 cent 1 percent T W Russell member for South Tyrone and Arthur Hugh SmithBarry Conservative for South Huntingdon spoke in support of Balfours motion Gladstone reproached the opposition with resorting to a license of language they could not possibly justify with the facts Tne present government he said had as great desire and as strong interest as any of their predecessors in preserving law and order in Ireland The present government had however a different view as to the best manner of dealing with people The results were already apparent and proved how successfully the new policy operated The severity of sentences in Ireland upon the boy Foley and other political oftenders Gladstone continued was a feature of a coercive system Such sentences could never have been passed in England The present pres-ent government sought to abolish this exceptional ex-ceptional mode of treatment and sought to establish more of a profitable system of administration They aimed at laying the foundation of order in the hearts of the people of Ireland Ire-land The party refused to believe that the Irish people were afflicted with some peculiar curse which prevented them from appreciating the blessings of civilization Trie Liberal party believed the Irish people peo-ple were as capable of being eoverened on approved principles as the peaple of other countries The present effort of the chief secretary for Ireland was to realize in practice the fruit of this belief Lord Randolph Churchill defended the Irish judges against a charge of having passed too harsh sentences His own eperience had been that one concession to the Irish people was followed invariably invaria-bly by another He pronounced the proposed vote of censure more than justified by Morleys endeavor to hush up and conceal Irish crime from a knowledge knowl-edge of parliament He charged the government gov-ernment with having set aside the will of parliament when they abandoned two clauses of the crimes act The Unioists Lord Randolph said founed their hopes on the truth of their principles and looked to the English people for justice and judgment Division on Balfours motion resulted In a majority of 47 for the government |