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Show lEXCITIfffi SCENE 1 ! . HOUSE OF GOUOffi Timothy Healy Makes Charges Against Government; Govern-ment; Secretary Replies. LOXD'OX, July 26, 9:15 p. in. An exciting scene, indicative of the strong feeling winch prevails among tho Irish members, occurred in the house of commons com-mons tonight, when Timothy Healy charged the government with arresting 2UUU innocent nersons in the course of the 1 risli rcbedion hint treating them j with a crue.ty and ferocity whicn even Germany has not shown in Belgium. I'J'he home secretary, lie added, by ins ! admin iet ration, had started the .Sinn I Fein organization in Ireland ami there-I there-I lure wab lather of the movement. I The speaker here called Healy to order for irrelevance, but did not refuse re-fuse tho request of Herbert -dj. iSamuel, the home secretary, for permission to reply to the charges made by Mr. Healy. Secretary ISamuel characterized Healy 's charges as utterly uniounded and denied de-nied vigorously that prisoners had been ill treated or placed in solitary confinement, confine-ment, as alleged. The home secretary said he would leave tho house to" judge I'tho value of Healy 's allegations, j The breakdown of the Irish settlement settle-ment does not in any way injure the I cause jf home rule nor indicate any ; change in the attitude of the govern-! govern-! ment toward the Irish question, Sir ! Horace Plunkett told the Associated Press today. Sir Horace, who for many years has been occupied with Irish agricultural agri-cultural and congestion problems, probably prob-ably possesses as broad a knowledge I of Irish affairs as does any niau. lie continued: ' ' The government was anxious to seize the opportunity for an agreement between Sir Edward Carson and John Redmond to put the home rule act into immediate eifect but before doing so it felt bound to ascertain the real sentiment senti-ment of the Irish people, which proved more unfriendly toward the scheme ; than either the government or its Irish 'advisers had expected. "Joh i Kcdmond had the greatest difficulty dif-ficulty in securing the support of his followers whom he had time to consult, and it soon became clear that he could not carry with him the general ;seut of nationalist I rcland. "Sir Edward Carson also severely strained his authority in securing the limited approval of the ulster unionists. ' ' The government was naturally unwilling un-willing to impose on the Irish people a settlement unacceptable to them and it was found that " the scheme tentatively tentative-ly offered to the two Irish leaders would meet with strong opposition both in England and Ireland. Hence considerable consider-able delay took place, but in the result a great blunder has bpeu avoided. Opinion Opin-ion in Ireland is ohviouly relieved by the withdrawal of the too hastily 'oq-structed 'oq-structed scheme. ' ' Home rule at the end of the war is perfectly secure anil the largo measure mea-sure of agreement reached between Carson Car-son and Redmond will douhtless be util-! util-! ized to improve the terms of the ultimate ulti-mate settlement. Talk about 'dnsh-iii(; 'dnsh-iii(; tho cup of freedom from tho litis of Erin ' is sheer nonsense. It is, however, true that some of the contents of the cup were not to tier tasti and she very sensibly prefers to wait." |