Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
PARN ELLIS REPLY.
What the Irish Statesman Says-Strons
Comments of the London Press.

LONDON, Feb 90.
There was much excitement in the Com
mons at the opening session this afternoon,
as it was expected Parnell would speak in
answer to the charges made against him BY
Forster, Thursday. Parnell said the utmost
he desired to do was to make his position
| clear to the Irish people at home and abroad.
Forster ought to be ashamed to traduce him.
He declined to reply to Forster's questions
and charged that gentleman with having dis
closed secrets of his (ParnelPs) associations.
If Forster had believed the articles published
in the Irish World were likely to incite crime
why hadn't he stopped the circulation of that
paper.
Parnell continued: He had been chal.
lenged to defend himself, but had nothing to
defend himself from. He occupied better
position in the eyes of the Irish than Forster
did in England. Forster was also guilty of
| suppressing the Veri because the heading in
| the United Ireland. Incidents of the Cam
paign," over the column recording the out
RACES caused O'Brien. editor of that paper, to
be liberated from prison. Mr.. Fosters un-
| fairness was shocking. Parnell also analyzed
the evidence of Carey at the hearing of the
Irish prisoners in Dublin, which he said was
not statement of fact but of belief and
hearsay. In reference of the source of the
murder fund. he said it rested upon the fact
that some men, while in prison, had received
checks from the sustentatiOn fund of the
land league. He said aid had been given to
thousands of prisoners. Forster's animus
was due to the fact that he had attempted to
obtain promise from him (ParnelD, but had
failed and had lost his Office The present
officials in Ireland are manifestlv unfit to ad.
minister the crimes act
The Prince of Wales was present when
Parnell was delivering his speech.
Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for ireland, in
reply to Parnell. proceeded to vindicate
the policy of the government of Ireland
Since the present government there have
been commissioned to suppress crime the
number of murders have been reduced from
three monthly to one in the last four and a
half months. The only policy tor Ireland
was to say exactly what the government
meant to do and then do it. He regretted
that Parnell had not made his position
clear Garst's amendment to the address
IN reply to the speech from the throne was
dlstasteful to Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant
OF Ireland and to himself, and would, if
carried, lead to their designations as well as
to the designations of the cabinet He
| thought nothing would be more fatal to Ire
land than to hand the responsibility of its
government to local bodies Trevelyan said
if the government were convinced that the
life OF any official or priv ate person had been
pointed at BY melting language of the press
they would act again.
During Parnelrs speech. O'Shea ex-
claimed that Messrs. Dayton, Egaa and Dayitt
were mentioned BY Forster
As proof that the prisoners charged with
the PhGnix Park murders were not men,
bers Of the land league, Parne'l pointed
out during his speech that one of them had
returned q check which had been sent him
from the sustentation fund, saying he had
nothing to do with the league.
Prompted by statement of Forster, who
hsd read articles and believed that the re-
suit would be to that of himself who had
never read them though they we're now
brought against him, Justice Mccartney has
written Forster, informing him that he will