THE HOME RULERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 246, 18 January 1878, Page 15

THE HOME RULERS.

On Tucsdayj l Octobei ) '9tii, there was a meeting of the Irish Hume llule Members' of. Parliament in the City Hall, Dublin, .at 'w.hiclv,27 of tile . ol) Home ltule Members attended. Mr. Maurice Brooks, member for, fie City of Dublin.'occupied the chair. The othciv members present' wove Messrs. Butt, Oallan, D unbar, Downing, French,,, Fay, Gray, - Martin, Kirk, Nolan, M'Kcnua, O'Connor, O'Brien, O'Clery, O'Byrne, ONdhaujrhncssy; Power, Parncll. Power, OlSullivan, O'Leaiy, Pieclniojid'.'/Shiel, B.haw; .Sullivan and Ward. Mr. Ward, M. P. for Cork > County, proposed a series of three resolutions, which were seconded, 1 * Kpokcn to. and adopted. They were as follows :—: — /,\ . ' 1. " That we take Ibid opportunity of .reaffirming our pledges to our country and to each other to maintain the unity and authority of ! the Home Bute Parliamentary party, as constituted by their tcsolu- I tions of of March, 1874,-; more than ever convinced of the wisdom andefficacy of a policy.of united and energetic action, -undei\ the; leader- i ship of Mr. Butt." -2. " That on all questions/ affecting . the interests of Ireland sand on] linpqjrial questions of importfi»ce, r it is the^uiy pf ; the lrish.Hom^Kule^Parliamcntary^arty to cpu^iilt t.ogether )r 'and t'6V carry out, as far as possible, a ' definite, carne&t,.\^a,uui&d l line t of, policy and actiqn U; . But that.it is unij.or&t6pfl ,tha.t .oX" qiiesiions on which no &tich agi'qe;ucn]L y has been arrived! at, the members 'of the party. Jiavjß full HUeriy. of iiction, always remembering the deep obligatioif on. _all individual, action,, .both in ijud outside tKe" House of t '^V^^i^^A^YP^ng ayoioLanyicourse/fha.^ would ,iniure the J^rf^MtW^kWrM 3 "^ ' <|ffiers fil bf h 6xxf6oihitv]km wno B ) Wgy.,m4^3ft^«A r^,JftK#pM^ 'if&essarr, to a national coufc«hT^*m J ;^\^s:^ffifitSto«S ?r and iWpccts of! the national cause." ?, '_.."iuu.i> ci ), i i ,r;-'jr x -. .'. Al'thoiiglr there was'a general euueurmicc of opinion mtha-egaixL

to these resolutions, the proc"eedings~displa"yM~iaxfclr~4iverßit3r-X)f (,opiui(gK between the members. Mr. Parnell refused to \disclose any policy for'the coining Session, and several of the members indulged in personal recriminations that showed deep-seated animosity. On Thursday the Home Rule League held a meeting in the Ancient Pqncert Eooms, at which 29 Members of Parliament and a considerable number of representative men from the provinces attended. With trifling exception the members were the same who attended the meeting on Tuesday. They were Messrs. Butt, Downing, Shaw, Brooks, Parnell, Biggar, M'Kenna, Callau, Bowyer, Martiu, O'Sullivan, Ward, Power. Sullivan, O'Shaughnessy, o'Gorman,oO'Donnell, Collins, Redmond, O'Clery, Ennis, French, Dunbar, O'Connor, , Power, O'Brien, O'Byrne. O'Leary, Shicl and Fay. Mr. Shaw, M. P., Cork County, filled the chair, the meeting having opened at one o'clock. The chairman .opened the procegdings in a sensible speech. Rev. Professor Galbraith, as Honorary Secretary of the Home Rule League, read the resolution upon which the meeting was called : '* . ''vEhat'/we recommend to the consideration of Mr Butt the desirability of calling together within the period of the Parliamentary a National Conference in Dublin to consult and advise upon the interests of the Home Rule movement.'' Xi v; • ,r, r Mr.- Butt, in a- brief speech, proposed the following resolution, which was supported by Rev. Mathew O'Kcefe, P. P., Aghaboe, diov cese of Ossory k- - - " That a conference of .Home Rulers be convened under of this League, for the purpose of deliberating upon 1 the 1 present position ancLprospects of the Home Rule cause, and the best means- of forwarding that object." A debate ensued, in which Messrs. Parnell, Butt, O'Connor, .Power, Rev. Mr. O'Shea. Messrs. T. D. Sullivan, C. Dennihy, Esmond, L'oudon; Biggar, John Dillon, Callan, F. H. O'Donnell, the chairman, -Mollo&JL F '^ a A ol i 7' W * L - o ' N eill, Dr. O'Leary, John Ferguson, Glasgow, Alclermari j Daly,~Corkj-DowningfHHowe— O^Shaughaessy, James Murphy, Bey, Mr. Murphy, Rev. iMi'.lMorani and Revj":Mr. Murphy took part, and which closed .about: six: when the meeting was adjourned to eight o'clock that -evening. Sharp personal altercations took place between several- of the speakers, especially between Mr. Butt and Mr. F. H. O'DpnneU, -M.P. The evening sitting was sjtill, more, boisterous than that kof the morning, and the meeting separated about elev;en.o',clocji without any violence, vvhich is the most tha|t can 'be said. A* national 1 : conference is to be held in January, all clergymen, magistrates; m'unicipalrepresentatives 1 and l some,pther classes^ a\ l e elected ex qfficlo niembers-'of the conference. The meeting proves what j have ! iield tHroughb'ut, andlield with'deep j>ahi, that the Home Rule ( f League is r morally dcad : aud beyoiicl^thc I reach of revival. And 1 more is the pity ;"'a tine' aim wrecked by in- ; competency and vanity,^-C'at7wlic liccioe. ■ > ._> >: -■"