He is one of the strong and great men of the immediate future.
[Sidenote: Obstruction, naked and unashamed.] When the debate on amnesty was concluded, there came a climax to that system of obstruction in which the Tories and the Unionists indulged during the first fortnight; and there was indication of the growing exasperation of the Ministerial and the Irish members.

Midnight had struck; and Mr.Balfour, on the part of the Tories, had the face to declare that it was impossible, at such a late hour, to do justice to the next amendment.

As the next amendment dealt with the Gweedore prisoners, and as the House has heard of little else but the Gweedore prisoners for the last fortnight, the majority received this announcement with a fierce outburst of impatience, the Irish Bench especially being delighted at the opportunity of paying back to Mr.
Balfour some of the insults he had poured on them so freely during his six years of power.

Meantime, the Liberal temper had been roused to still more feverish heat by the splendid news from Halifax, followed by the even more unexpectedly good tidings from Walsall; and there was a determination to stand no nonsense.

But Obstruction was determined to go on, and when it was two o'clock in the morning Sir William Harcourt declared that he would not persevere further.