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Show EXCITING SCENE " INlEMli Timothy Healy Makes Charges Against the British Government. London, July 26, 9:15 p. m.-An ex-citing ex-citing scene indicative of the strong feeling which prevails among the Irish members, occurred in the house of commons tonight, when Timothy Healy charged the government with arresting 2000 innocent persons in the course of the Irish rebellion and treating treat-ing them with a cruelty and foroclty which even German has not shown in Belgium. The homo secretary, he added, ad-ded, by his administration, liad started the Sinn Fein organization In Ireland and therefore was father of the movement. move-ment. The speaker hero called Healy to order for Irrelevance, but did not refuse re-fuse the request of Herbert L. Samuel ; the home secretary, for permission to ! reply to the charges made by Mr. ! HpnJv. Secretary Samuel characterized characteriz-ed Healy's charges as utterly unfounded unfound-ed and denied vigorously that prisoners prison-ers had been 111 treated or placed In solitary confinement, as alleged. The homo secretary said he would leave the house to judge the value of Healy's nllffnr5nriQ The breakdown of the Irish settlement settle-ment does not in any way injure the cause of home rule nor indicate any change in the attitude of the 'govern-I 'govern-I 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 ag-ricultural and congestion problems, probably possesses as broad a know-lodge know-lodge of Irish affairs as does any man. He continued: "Tho government was anxious to seize tho opportunity for an agreement agree-ment between Sir Edward Carson and John Redmond to put the home rule act Into Immediate effect but before doing so It felt bound to ascertain the real sentiment of the Irish people, which proved more unfriendly toward the scheme than either the government govern-ment or its Iriah advisors had expected. expect-ed. "John Redmond had the greatest difficulty dif-ficulty in securing the support of his followers whom he had time to consult, con-sult, and It soon became clear that he could not carry with him the general assent of nationalist Ireland. "Sir Edward Carson also severely strained his authority in securing the limited approval of the ulster unionists. union-ists. "The government was naturally unwilling un-willing to impose on tho Irish people a settlement unacceptable to them and it was ifound that the scheme tentatively tenta-tively offered to tho two Irish-leaders would meet with strong opposition both in England and Ireland. Hence considerable delay took place, but In the result a great blunder has "been avoided. Opinion in Ireland is obviously obvi-ously relieved by the withdrawal of the too hastily constructed scheme. "Home rule at the end of the war is perfectly secure and the large measure mea-sure of agreement reached between Carson and Redmond will doubtless be ultimate settlement Talk about 'dashing the cup of freedom from the Hps of Erin' is sheer nonsense. It Is, however, true that some of the contents con-tents of the cup were not to her tasto and she very sensibly prefers to wait."' nn |