The Duke of Argyll made a very powerful speech in
reply to Lord Granville. He directed a sharp attack on Mr. Morley for insisting on the extreme incapacity of Irish Unions to rate themselves and to spend their rates economically, and then pro- posing to cure that incapacity by leaving them to themselves to do exactly as they like. And he produced cases of the inter. ference of the National League with Irish tenant-farmers who had bought their tenant-right, at the instance of retired Irish. Americans who insisted on displacing them, and who could not have done so, having neither law nor any equitable presumption on their side, if the National League had not taken up their case and applied its tyrannical powers to the extrusion of the rightful owners. Lord Denbigh made a manly speech, declaring that this Bill was no more of a Coercion Bill than the Decalogue, and showing how utterly opposed the principles of the Catholic Church are to the Parnellite movement. Then the debate expired.
