Show THE COMMONS TheQuestion of Healys Suspen pension Under Consideration in the Lower House The Sensation Created In All Classes by the Alleged Parnell Letter In the Times The Pan Handle Railway Thieves An Extraordinary Submarine Eruption Erup-tion on Californias Coast In the Commons LONDON April 19Sexton asked whether the Government would consent to resoind the suspension of Healy W H Smith First Lord of the Treasury replied for the Government The duty they had to discharge on Friday night was most disagreeable The Government were sorry they were forced to ask that Healy be named for transgressing the orders of the House It would be utterly out of tho question however how-ever when no apology had been given for this breach of the decencies of debate tq rescind re-scind the suspicion The motion to that effect ef-fect could not be entertained without a general gen-eral concurrence of the House Sexton inquired if it were competent for him to move the rescinding of Healys suspension sus-pension Speaker Peel replied No the motion would not be competent unless it appeared on tho proper tide of the House Sexton said in the absence of Healy he was authorized to say for Healv that if Major Sanderson withdrew the offensive charges to which Healys language was in reply Healy would withdraw the expressions deemed by the House offensive Jacob Bright Liberal and a brother of John Bright asked why it was when two members of the House committed the same offense one was suspended while the other was not The Speaker said in ordinary circumstances circum-stances ho would decline to answer that qunstion or any question implying that his action was not impartial but in the present circumstances he would explain In the second instance in which a breach of the rules of the Houso had been committed that of Sexton an apology followed with the withdrawal of the expression causing the breach Sexton moved Healy be heard at the bar of the House The Speaker declared that could not be done Sexton asked Major Saunderson to withdraw with-draw his assertions regarding Healy which exasperated him into making the response for which he was suspended Saunderson remaining silent Gladstone put to him the direct question whether he was prepared to render the House any assistance as-sistance by the withdrawal of his offensive expressions Conservative cries No No Dont I Dont Saundorson said he never alluded to Healy directly or indirectly because he felt as regards Healy that he was unable to substantiate sub-stantiate the charges so as to bring conviction convic-tion to the minds of the members of the House Cries Hear Hear The matter then dropped Subsequently Sexton resuming the debate on the Irish Crimes Act Amendment bill said Saunder son charged him with direct complicity in crime If the accusations were well founded why did the Irish Viceroy approve his present pre-sent appointment High Sheriff Dublin His name as a member of the League had been linked with that of Sheridan the Invincible In-vincible but Sheridan was never a member of the Executive Council of the Land League Did Saunderson pointing to him Sexton mean in reality to embarrass Col Harmon against whom the Major recently unsuooessfully competed for the new Government Gov-ernment office of Parliamentary UnderSecretary Under-Secretary for Ireland Parnellite cheers Fox Sheridan and Colonel King Harmon Har-mon once canvassed the same constituency I I con-stituency together Again also theTreasurer of the old Land League was at one time an intimate friend of Colonel King Harmon Cheers They were fellowmembers of the Council of tho Home Rule League Not only that Egan wrote for the Colonel his address to the electors Laughter If past association with men charged with crime was an offense which side of the house was deepest in assassination It was manifestly an absurdity for Saunderson to accuse the Executive of the Land League of knowing that men were murderers because their names were mentioned in connection with the Phoenix Park affair He Sexton never learned of any fact or anything that was proved which would warrant him in changing the opinion he had always entertained enter-tained that Egan and those associated with him were innocent of the malignant charges brought against them Cries of Hear Hear Saundersons attack was both mean and cowardly Referring to the bill under consideration Sexton said that the measure threatened the existence of the Irish National League He would remind the House that the League aided by the prelates and clergy of the Catholic Church had struggled to maintain the moral law yet this League so supported was stigmatized stigma-tized as a conspiracy maintained by criminals crim-inals and dynamiters The bill itself is the grossest kind of an attempt at a violation of the moral law The bill aimed to sweep away at once fell swoop all the cherished rights of the people It was justified by nothing in the condition of Ireland The boycotting practiced by the Irish people arose naturally from tho irrepressible growth of Irish public opinion The only way to do without it was to obtain laws governing the people of Ireland in sympathy with these people I Sir Bernhard Samuelsons amendment to the crimes bill to the effect that the bill if passed would increase the disorder in ireland Ire-land endanger the union of the Empire and therefore should be rejected was defeated in the House tonight 370 to 269 and the second reading of the crimes bill was agreed to without division In an interview Par nell pointed out that although at first sight some letter in the Times fac simile appeared to resemble his autograph a close comparison compari-son shows decided and striking differences in many important points The forgery slopes upward the genuine handwriting downward Parnell always places a fall point after the initial S lD his name which the forgery omits The ur in Par nell and C in Chas are quite different from anything he ever wrote The letters uCh in Ohas are abnormally long and the Us and p are the only letters m anyway any-way resembling his genuine autograph The pen at the beginning of a in the forged Ohas was evidently taken off the paper whereas in the genuine signature it is always written without a break The forgery Par nell says is the work of a person accustomed to penmanship and writing a flowing hand whereas his own miting is always in a cramped style Parnell further said the letter and signature are impudent forgeries and he strongly suspected the identity of the forgers He is undecided whether to prosecute the Times or not The Parnellites all declare that the letter is an infamous concoction and a deliberate invention to publicly slander the leader of Home Rule party 4her say that even on Parnell would the low ground of expedience be the last man in the world to write a letter let-ter containing such Damning admissiong They contend therefore that all reason m the ease proves the letter to be a forgery on the face of it pointing for proof to the face of the document especially to the writers warning the person to whom the letter purports I pur-ports to be written not to disclose the address ad-dress while no address is given The fact that the signature is the only part of the letter in Parnells writing is by itself the Home Rulers argue proof that the whole thing is a fraud as according them while I it would be difficult to obtain enough specimens speci-mens of Parnells handwriting to enable a forger to imitate it to such an extent as to I successfully palm off the whole letter as his it is not at ail difficult to obtain his signa ture Parnell the agent of the Associated Press is authorized to state will categorically categoric-ally deny that he wrote the letter Parnell will make his denial in the House of Commons Com-mons The editors of the Times will be summoned sum-moned to the bar of the Commons to explain the authorship of the letter |