Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-08
THE IRISH LAND BILL.
Important Features of the Bill as u
Finally Became a Law.


British politics, as it is for our British
cousins exactly to understand the
workings of the American political sys-
tenn. We cannot tell precisely what
Mr.. Gladstone was justified in yielding.
but with such light as we have it
would appear as if he had made un-
necessary compromises, even if he cam
not be charged with an abandonment
of principle. 1t looked as if he might.
with entire confidence, have challenged
the lords to do their worst, and that,
in case of dissolution of parliament,
he might have gone to the people with
perfect safety to himself and the gov
ernment of which he is the head.
Americans believe in the liberal party
in England, and, perhaps, have more
faith than itself has in its ability to
advance the various reforms that en-
gage public attention. From this dis
tance, it seemed as if the lords were
imperiling their own existence by OBJ
stinately opposing the will of the COM
mons, and such thought must have
found lodgment in the minds of the
lords themselves, because in the agree
ment finally reached they abated some
of their most arbitrary pretensiOns.
And yet Mr.. Gladstone yielded some
thing-the home rulers and the most
advanced radicals say that he yielded
much. 1t seems cruel that the I'arnell
amendment, which that gentleman re-
garded as exceedingly importal
namely: The staying of proceedings f 4
rent until new lands were in operation.
and fair rental could be determined,
should have been stricken out under
the compromise, and various other
notifications of the original bill should
have been submitted to at the behest
Of the lords. Nevertheless much has
been accomplished in behalf of the
100000 Irish farmers-much, very
much that is offensive to the grasping
land owners and humiliating to the
lords. Let the bill be regarded as an
entering wedge to something better,
for that something is sure to come i'm
process of time. 1t will aid our read
ers who are interested in the bill, to
note the following as the main heads
of the bill, as it finally passed both
houses of parliament
SALE OF TENANCIES.
Tenant may sell his tenancy for
the best price he can get. Conditions:
L. Sale TO one person only.
2. Notice TO landlord.
3. Landlord may purchase on re-
ceiving notice.
4. Tenant must state consideration.
5. Court may declare sale void.
.. Landlord may object to purchase.
z. Court may recompense landlord
for debt out of purchase money.
3. Where improvements made by
landlord purchase money apportioned
by court.
9. Landlord may give notice that he
has claims on the estate.
10. Where purchase money paid
into court, court must determine all
applications.
ii. Tenant who has sold his tenancy
shall not he entitled to compensation
for disturbance or improvement.
II. Tenant, if holding subject to VI
ster tenant right system, may sell in
pursuance of that custom, or in pursu-
ance of this section; but not both.
DEvoLUTION OF TENANCIEs.
H.-When person receiving ten
ancy as bequest, he must be accepted
by the landlord as though he were a
purchaser.
INCREASE OF RENT.
III-When landlords demand in
crease of rent. then
l. Tenancy shall be deemed, if ten
ant accepts, tenancy subject to stat
utOry conditions for fifteen years.
2. If tenants do not accept, tenancy
shall be sold, and tenants shall receive
amount by which court decides the
selling of tenancy to have been depre-
ciated below amount which would have
been selling value if rent were fair
rent.
3. If tenant does not accept he is en-
titled to compensation for disturbance.
4. Tenant in place of accepting or
declining such increase, may apply to
court to have the rent fixed.
5. When landlord cannot agree with
tenant on the subject he may also have
access to the court.
The last clause was an amendment
Of the lords. Mr.. Gladstone's assent
to it provoked the hostility of the Irish
party.
INCIDENTS OF TENANCY.
IV.-Tenant shall not be compelled
to pay increase of rent unless he vio-
lates what are in this act referred to
as statutory conditions-namely:
l. Punctual payment of rent.
2. No waste.
8. No subdivision or subletting.
4. No act whereby tenancy becomes
vested in assignee in bankruptcy.
5. Not refusing landlord right of
entry for purpose of mining, cutting,
hunting, or fishing.
6. Not opening house for the sale
of intoxicating liquors.
COMPENSATION.
V and VI.-Bepealing portion of the
land bill and tenant QrelandD act of
1870.
INTERVENTION OF COURT.
WILL. Court may determine fair
rent.
2. Rent thus fixed, called judicial
rent, payable first rent-day after de.
cisiOn.
3. When rent thus fixed, tenancy to
be held under statutory condition for
fifteen years.
4. Court may disallOw application
under this section when Improvements
have been made and maintained by
landlord.
5. When application is made land
lord and tenant may agree to fix a
specified value for tenancy. Then. if
tenant wants to sell, landlord has right
to purchase at that value
8. Statutory terms not renewed till
preceding statutory terms has ex-
pired.
q No application for fiducial rent
may be made till the last twelve
months of the current statutory term.