Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-18
ERIN GO BRAGH.
Meeting Of the Irish National Confer
ence Mt Dublin Yesterday.
DEMAND FOR SELF.GOVERNMENT
List Of the Reforms the New Organiza-
ton Will Demand.
EXPENSES OF THE LAND LEAGUE.
RESIGNATION Of Egan, the Treasurer
An Account OF His Stewardship.
SPEECHES BY PARNELL-DAVITT.
A Miscellaneous Collection of Egyptian
and European News.
List Of the Reforms the New OrganlZa
ton Will Demand.
EXPENSES OF THE LAND LEAGUE.
Resignation Of Egan, the Treasurer
Account Of His Stewardship.
SPEECHES BY PARNELL-DAVITT
4 miscellaneous Collection Of Egyptian
and European News.
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE.

DUB11S. Oct. 1.-THE Irish national
conference opened to-day. Parneu pre-
sided. A letter was received from Egan,
dated Paris, rendering his resignation as
treasurer of the land league, and giving a
statement of the fund of the league. The
report shows that Il total of e244,S20 ster-
ling passed through his hands. Of this
sum there was disbursed in relieving dis
tress in 1879 and 1880 100000; in defense
of state trials, over e15,00O, and in expen-
ditures through the general land league
and ladies' league, e14S,O00, leaving bal
ance Of nearly $4,000. Parnell and Da-
witt were received with tremendous cheers
by the delegates. Nearly ell the extreme
Irish members Of parliament are present.
The attendance Of delegates is large.
At the time fixed for the opening of the
conference very few delegates were pres
ent. but in about an hour there were be-
tween 700 and 500 in the hall. On the
platform were Lord Mayor Dawson and
Messrs. Healy, O'Connor, Corbett. Gill,
Sexton, O'Sullivan and Brennan. Egan, in
his letter of resignation, says: I'm view
of the fact thet new national organiza-
ton is likely to spring from the confer
ence, and it is impossible for me to longer
absent myself from my own business in
Dublin, I must earnestly beg my friends
in the land league to release me of the
treasuership. Egan then submits the
financial statement mentioned in the pre-
ceding dispatch. He gives only round
figures, as the books of the league are in
Dublin.
Egan specifies the purposes for which
they were expended through the gener al
land league and ladies' league. They were
applied as follows: support of evicted
tenants, erection of land league huts,
payment of law costs and general ex-
penses of the organization, for his own
protection, as we'll as for the satisf ut on o.
members of the league. He asks that two
deputed to examine his accounts. Davitt
proposed and Justin Mccarthy seconded
a warm vote of thanks to and con-
tinued confidence in Egan, which passed.
Parnell, in an address to the conference,
corrected the impression that nothing had
been done for evicted tenants. He said
since the dissolution of the ladies' land
league e2,774 have been spent in relieving
them. and that hundreds of families have
been placed in position to avail themselves
of the benefits of the arrear act. Brennan
and Sexton were appointed secretaries of
the conference. A number of letters and
kilograms from America approving the
movement were received. Letters were
also received srom several Catholic bishops
apologizing for their absence, and express
sing confidence in the leaders of the move
ment. Parnell then submitted the pro-
gramme of the conference and reviewed it.
On motion of Mr.. Daivtt it was resolved
to include the establishment of working
mems clubs and reading rooms among the
objects of the conference.
Parnell declares he wished to reaffirm
his first utterance on the public platform,
namely: that until he attained for the peo-
pie of Ireland the right to make their own
laws, they would never be in accordance
with their wishes. No solution of the land
question could be final that did not secure
to farmers the right to become owners of
their holdings by purchase. He estimated
fair amendment to the Healy clause
would result in an average of 20 per cent.
further reduction in the judicial dscrees
fixing rent. He said the Irish
party required eighty-fve to
ninety members in parliament.
but they could not hope for this until the
franchise was placed on the basis of house
hold suffrage. In relation to the assertions
of English papers with regard to alleged
differences with their kindred in America,
Parnell denied there had been any dicta-
ton from that quarter. He for one would
have declined to obey such dictation on
whatever points they might have differed.
They had agreed to leave the issue to Irish
people, despite the most tyrannical coer-
-clon act the world had ever seen. They
would yet attain the measures on which
they had set their hearts. The scheme for
the establishment of an Irish national
league was adopted.
Davitt then addressed the convention.
He spoke in somewhat more pronounced
terms than Parnell. He declared that un.
til the land which was stolen from the peo-
pie was restored to the whole people as ma
tional property, there. could be no final
and satisfactory settlement of the land
question. At the same time he wished it
distinctly understood that his declaration
did not separate him from Parnell on the
land question.
Parnell accepted the amendment to the
proposed land scheme to the effect that in
creased taxes should be placed on grass
lands, and that all covenants against till,
ing should be declared void. The confer
ence unanimously adopted an amendment
to the programme in favor of the pay
ment OF the Irish party in the house Of
commons.
Davitt moved as an amendment to the
proposed constitution of the central coun-
Gil of the new league that the council con-
sist of thirty-two members, one from each