Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-26
THE LAND LEAGUE CONVENTION.


Notion 20 "CensuIs" President Arthur.
IN the Land League convention in Phil.
adelphia yesterday after the presidents
address and the report of the credentials
committee the annal reports of the secre-
tary and treasurer were then presented,
the former stating that there are now on
the roll $50 branches, and the latter that
the receipts from the Land League branches
had been $61,976,27, of which $45,-
251.70 was for Land League purposes, and
SIG, 724.57 for the relief fund. The grand
total received including donations, lee.
lures, and "doliar subscription was $40.
1890. A committee of one from each
state was appointed to consider and for
mulate a plan for reorganization as the
National Irish League"
Father Walsh's Report.
Treasurer Walsh also submitted state.
rnent of the moneys received and disposed
of by him. He referred to letter which
had been written to him by what the rev.
erend gentleman termed mean, cowardly
fellow, who asked how he had dared to
use the Leagues funds to pay the ex.
penses of Miss Parnell's funeral. 81 will
not give his name," continued Father
Walsh, ''but I will say that if he ever was
an 1rishman every drop of Irish blood
must have oozed out Of his heart long
ago. had the consent and approval of
every honest 1rishman to pay such ex-
penses." [Applause.l
In speaking of tho different people to
whom he had sent money for the starving
poor of Ireland Father Walsh narrated an
incident that occasioned renewed applause
among the men and drew tears from tho
oe khN Ia 20 t1A
Widow Walsh in Ireland, one of whose
, sons was recently hung and another sen
tenoed to penal servitude for life for being
charged with committing murder of
| which they we're innocent. Mr.. Egan
told me that he was positively assured
that tho mother knew who the guilty
party was, but she would rather sacrifice
her sons than turn informer, as some
ocean. Her old Irish heart would rather
break with sorrow than confess what she
knew"
The Evening Session.
The delegates were called to order fOl
the evening session at quarter past nine
o'clock. Speeches were limited to five
minutes, and no delegate was allowed to
speak more than once on the same subject.
In reply to a request for report of the
committee appointed at the last convention
to wait on the president of the United
States to ask an explanation Of the conduct
of Minister Lowell, Mr.. Collins, of Mass
reported that the president had said thai
it was not proper for him to say anything
while diplomatic relations were in exist
ence between this country and England
but when the time came to act, he wou!C
be on tho right side. A motion that tht
"president be censured for his lack o.
honor" was declared out o
order. The committee on organi
zation reported that they had de-
cided not to recommend any plan to thu
convention, but asked that resolutions be
adopted that the delegates attend in :
body the sessions of the Irish-AmericaI
national convention to be held to day, il
view of the prospect that the deliberation
of that convention will result in the unio,
of all patriotic Irish bodies on tho con
tinent which favor the present Irisl
policy in a now organization support
ing the National League of Ireland
A motion providing for an adjournmen
until after to-day and the appointment o
committee to act upon the dissolution o
tho Land League Of America and tht
amalgamation with the Irish Nationa
Land League, was carried by q vote of 1Sl
to 1885, Upon requests for information a
to the exact nature of the convention
action, President Mooney said {: Thi
convention adiourns as Land League
convention. No action has been takel
changing the organization into the Irisl
National League" The convention wa
then at 25 minutes past O'Clock declare'
adjourned.