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Sketches In The House (1893)

CHAPTER IV
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Two Irish members, driving straight from Euston station to the House--John Dillon and Mr.Collery--have meantime been added to the Ministerial ranks.

Some of the mutineers have come back, and the majority rises to forty-two.
And so ended the great intrigue of the Liberal malcontents against the Gladstone Government.
[Sidenote: Obstruction rampant.] The word had gone forth--the Home Rule Bill was not to be allowed to pass the second reading before the Easter recess.

The slings and arrows of the Tory press had at last begun to have their effect, and obstruction had now been entered upon thoroughly, fiercely, and shamelessly.

The first specimen of it was on the following Thursday night, when Mr.T.W.Russell took advantage of an harangue by Mr.
Justice O'Brien--those Irish judges are all shameless political partisans--to move the adjournment of the House.

Mr.Morley was in excellent fighting form.


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