New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-25
MILLER TELLS THE TRUTH.
THE GENERALS EVIDENCE BEFORE THE
ROYAL COMMISSION.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
UNITED IRELAND" SECURES DOCUMENT of
GREAT ENGLIsHMAN's DE-
FENCE OF TpE NATIONAL LEAGUE
"ANOlHER ADvggTIskMRNr
FOR THE AoITAroRs."
tBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE


tBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE
roo.,riohk, 1886 NORTH american Gable Ftrs Cos
Dra,,s Nov 24--I am enabled to send to-nlRn'
h document Of importance which Ch'cd ne-
land has mana; Led to secure Though one Oh nS
secret agencies and which it will publish 10
morrow. 1t is no less than resume OF inc eVi.
dencc given by General Butler before the hoyai
Commission at Killarney. This commission WIS
n pointed by the present Government TO lhquiie
into the working Of the Lanl Act Inc e'lde y .
was taken with closed doors, and the resume
send Is given in an extract from priVac N'"'
addressed by q member Of the commission 10 an
E,rc,sb Member of Parliament who is a man OF
considerable influence in the Government ante
chambers General Buffers evidence speaks LOT
itself an1 tie + OF the comm ssioners ie''cr
e>plans a fact which am also able to announce
with authority, namely, that dead SET Is Deihs
made against Butler by the same GoVcinmeh1
clique which managed the removal OF Slr IL ~perV
Hamilton General Butler has been IN Lohuoh
the last few days receivin, an earwlgglns lor Ills
unexteeted humanity AMI honesty, and II ne docs
not promise to mend his ways he Will pe pro-
NOTED out of Kerry at an early date.
Following is the extract:
BIS e.iDenoe was ex, essiycy mischevous,t ;,, ~
will be quoted. and the Evidence OF boycol0luts. NJ
which is simply awful. Will be thrown III .nc m
shace | cannot concei why he was st NJ ei;
IL is emotional | n lishmen who play the deVli
with this unf rtuna count y. lie is very MT II, Z,
,nassum NJ fellow in manner, but he mas laneh
into the h.n IS of q noted Fcnian and his heaH Is
stuffed with n nscnse. lie fancies hmsen
Iord Hi n Protector. / cannot te you how many
incautious crude remarks he made in the cou Sc
of less than a ten minutes exam nation 40 40,
body seemed to be anxious to pr0lOne H. HnG
thing struck me paItlcu aIly. lie was asN1u
whether tie an eague has still con'l a'ie !.
hold upon tie Ieople, lie sail: Se lanii, /,
has. an why should it not? 1t is the s'llN aUl u
of the people Until the League arose therc "as y
hon he q w.
was on'y on one side there was no law 1or them.
These are not the words. but thcre are very
nearly. just fancy the effect OF TINS iU Oh u
III on an ignorant and eNcitable peasantIy =, re
horrible affair of the Curtin family. ETC. he spoke
very pro ely Of ant OF intimidation, OF couIse
but he crew some distinction which | dld not
exactly apprehcn as between "mOon1 ,ht ROB
hers AMI the l. ,ue Another advert semcnt Tor
the agitatoIs' hat should man ike that
trict he founl the people over-rnted ana ms
crablc and in places even the Judicial rents TOO
hich that he himself had To interfere in one case
of hardship had no c. nfi lenre in the administ a.
tion of the law-the usual thing taken from the
harangucs of tie League orators ana all saio qu'te
cOOly ~,
lie is not q practical man in these matters. He
made two sugc eSti ms, both DANGEROUS. l ana not
myself quite catch the drift of some remarks or
his about alte,in the machinery or eN ltlons IN
such a way as to oh late the Os>lbllty OF hard-
shin either TO landlord or tenant II 1T meant
anythin. it seemed to me that this fad would
amount TO the abolition OF eviction altOgcher'
His other noint was some vague theory about q
produce rent-a nice way of making peace IN inc
country | cannot think what he was AT iie
was checred at the Killarney races. nglshmen
ere fools in some things 7. p. Gull, NJ. 7.