The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-23
II IRISH LAND BILL.

Provisions Of the Measure Introduced in the
British House of Commons on Friday.
LONDON, April 22-The Irish land-purchase
bill which the House of Commons last Friday
night gave Mr.. Gladstone permission to intro
duce was issued to-day. 1t covers twenty-six
pages. The bill is divided into FIVE parts. and
there are ffty-three clauses and four schedules.
The bill provides that a landlord who is desir-
Gus to sell his property shall apply to tho state
authority, the latter shall refer the application
thus made to a land commission, which, after
making an inquiry, shall fix a price at which the
property shall be sold. unless the landlords and
the state authority have previously come to an
agreement. If the landlord objects to the price
fixed by the commission, he may withdraw his
application on paying the costs. When a sale of
property has been effected, the commission shall
pay the creditors before making any other dis
tribution of the purchase money. Certain rent
charges may be bought outright by the state
authority, or payment may be continued from
the tenants ~repayments. In cases of property
whereon there is reasonable cause to suppose
that valuable minerals exist. the commission
shall add to the purchase money a
fair sum therefor, and the minerals
realized from said property shall be vested in
the state authority or such local body as the
Irish legislature may provide. The Irish re-
ceiver-general and deputies who are to execute
the financial part of the act, shall be appointed
to hold Office as permanent civil servants, sub
ject to the authority of the treasury. They.
shall be paid from the imperial exchequer, ba6
the Irish government shall appoint the actual
collacfors IF thn ocaivar-rupara or anv IF
his deputies shall be guilty of malfeasance. the
culprit shall forfeit the sums so lost, and also
shall be subjected to a fine of f500. The meas
ure empowers the treasury to create three classes
OF permanent annuities, bearing interest, re-
spectively, at 3. q and q per cent. and which
shall be charged to the imperial consolidated
fund. Strict rules are provided by the bill
which forbid the subdividing or subletting of a
holding go long as it is subject to any state
charges; but the state authority is empowered
to relax these rules where he may think it ad-
visable. The other points of the bill were COW
cred by Mr.. Gladstone'ss speech of Friday even
ing last.
A great mass-meeting of Liberals and Radicals
was held at st. James Hall this evening. Mr..
Labouchere presided, supported by Messrs. Brad
laugh. Lawson, Howell and Pickersgill, members
OF Parliament, and others. Thousands were un-
able to gain admitance to the hall. Mr.. La
oOuShOLO, ohAuuiuS u tA0 TcC6uG SOuScEtdIlVo-
Liberal-anti-home-rule meeting. said that Lord
Harrington was An honest man, Mr.. Goschen an
able man, and Mr.. Rylands a fluent man, but
that they had no more right to speak in the name
of the people of England than the three tallors
OF Tooley street. At to-nights meeting, he con-
tinued, there were no peers decorated with or
ders on the stage and no fashionable beauties IN
the boxes, but there were present laborers from
the fields and from ths workshop. who had met
to raise their voices in support of Mr.. Gladstone's
efforts to pass the bill granting home-rule to Ire
land.
Mr.. Howell proposed a resolution congratulate
ing Mr.. Gladstone on his endeavor to secure the
permanent union of England and Ireland, and
expressing the hope that the home rule bill would
become a law after being SO modified as to har-
monize with the desires of the Radicals.
The resolution was seconded by Mr.. Leicester,
member of Parliament, and supported by Mr..
Lawson. and was carried unanimously, as was,
also, a resolution authorizing the chairman to
sign a petition to the House of Commons in IA
yOr of the bill.