The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-23
THE LAND BILL.
honesty

A new turn has been taken by the Tory
leaders in the House Of Lords on the Land
Bill. They recently held a meeting at the
residence of ford Salisbury, when it was de-
termined to stand by the amendments which
the Commons rejected. Accordingly the
amendments were restored to the bill i'll the
House of Lords. Managers to conduct a
conference between the two houses have
been appointed, the Commons list Of reasons
being very strongly werded. 1t is said that
Lord Salisbury is ANXIOUS to goad Mr.. Glad
stone into dropping the bill and appealing to
the country. Gladstone, who has a temper
of his own, is greatly enraged at the mutila-
ton of the bill by the Lords and at the de-
termined attitude that body has assumed. Ii
Lord Salisbury Wallis to fight, Mr.. Gladstone
is inst as eager for the fray. Taking the sit
uation as a whole, it looks like a very serious
one both for the government and the Lords.
II the conference cannO agree and their ac-
ton comes to n~auglt, the bill must, of course
be dropped. In that event it is quite likely
Mr.. Narnell and his followers will throw
themselves into Ireland and renew the agita-
ton of the past two years and that country
will be in a blaze OF excitement in ali amaz-
in2ly short time. Urgent "Thips" have been
sent out by both parties, and members are
hurryine TO London from their grouse shoot
ing IN Scotland. Il is said that if tie bill be
defeated an autumn session will be called for
The purpose Of introducing a new bill aud
passing it before Christmas.
Anticipating The defeat Of the bill, Mr..
Parnell is casting about him for means by
which he may farce the attention OF Parlia-
m"nt to the consideration OF a bill more fav-
orable to the interests of Irish tenants than
the present one. He advocates the encour-
agement of Irish industries by the "boycott-
ing" of English made goods. lie recon-
mends also that goods which are not made in
Ireland should be bought in the United States
and broadly inLimates that the Land League
organization will take up this agitation. 1t
is said that Archbishop Croke favors this
measure.
It. appears that the Lords hold that farms
mauaged on the English system, in which the
i improvement are Hldue ~ Lile eh pellSC Oh lie
landlords, should not come within the scope
of the bill, SO as to vest in tenants the power
to sell those improvements as part and palce
of the tenant rights. In England, where a.
a rule, the farms are large, the landlord
makes the improvements and collects the in.
tersst ON the capital thus invested i'll the
shape of increased rents. But in IRELAND
small arms are the rule, there being about
2I5,0O tenants, each holding under fifteeI
acres, hence but few landlords have the
means to erect buildings and effect other i'm
provements on every farm on their estate. Ii
the next place the Lords insist upon exclud'
ing tenants Of holdings valued at fl00 snt
oyer from the right to have their rents tiXe.
by the Land Court. They also object to sew
eral other clauses of the bill, which ohjcc
tons, if sust Aimed by the conference commit,
tees, virtually emasculates it, and places the
whole subject matter at the point from
whence it originated. From present appear
ances there is little hope of a settlement o
the Irish disturbances by means of this lons
discussed land bill.
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