The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-17
GladstOne's Scheme to Benefit
the Irish Tenants.
ARRAIGNMEsT OF ASSEMBLIES
with Power In Our Hands We Have
Looked on and Done
Nothing"
eiadston,'sIri.h Land Bill.

House of Commons this evening. There
was hardly any excitement attending
the event, compared with the enthusi-
asm which attended the memorable
proceeding OF yesterday week, when the
home rule measure was proposed. at
noon, to-day, but ninety seats on the
floor of the House had been "hatted, -
and these were nearly all taken by Irish
members. at 4 o'clock, the House was
crowded to its utmost capacity.
Mr.. Gladstone rose in his place at
.25 D. IN. and was greeted with cheers.
When he began to speak mis- voice was
| low and husky. He said the aim of the
present endeayors of government was
cirected towards securing contentment
among the people of Ireland and q per-
III anent restoration of the social order.
The speakers proposals would greatly
benefit the tenants OF Ireland, but the
landlords were the principal object OF
the measure. although he thought that
many of these landlords were the most
hostile 10 the governments policy. At
the outset the speaker wished TO make
an emphatic denial that II was his in
J tention TO ask the Scotch and English
to run any pecaniary risk on account
OF the landlords OF Ireland. The his
tory of Ireland was one long indictment
against its landowners. Agrarian crime
had originated and increased under the
absenteeism oflandlords and the raising
of rents as their expenses, while away
from Ireland, increased. Oppression
welded to misery, had a hideous pro-
geny. Crime had been endowed with
vitality to perpetuate itself and hand
down its miserable inheritance from
generation to generation. England was
not clear of responsibility for the deeds
of the Irish lsndlords-they were
English deeds. with the power in our
hands we have looked on and done
nothing" After the union Of absen-
teeism became general, the national
sentiment ceased TO have a beneficial
influence on the relations be-
tween landlords and tenants. The
union itself was obtained against
| the sense and wish Of every
class by wholesale bribery and
unblushing intimidation. The land
act was intended to go into effect on the
same day on which the home rule bill
would become operative. IL could not
! go on without the operation OF the
other. which would provide a legislature
in Ireland to appoint statutory author
| ity to deal with the landed estates, and
/ the act between vendor and purchaser.
Purchases would be made through the
issue of ESQ, 00O. 900 of per cent. stock
issued at par. These new Irish consols
might, with the consent of the
\ treasury, be committed for stock
of lower denomination. If the
stock could be issued forthwith
scrip of equal value would be issued for
the same purpose. The act was TO give
the landlords the option to sell out.
Under il actions were confined to agri-
cultural holdings and did not include
mansions having demesne and woods.
The state authorities, acting
between peasants and land owners,
would purchase land from the latter
and put the peasant in possession as
absolute proprietor, subject to an an
nual rent charge uutil the total pay
ments equaled the purchase money.
The State would not force small occu-
pants to become proprietors. In
the districts where the population
was congested, the State would have
power to decide whether the expropria-
ton of too-crowded land should be COM
pulsory. Nobody except immediate
landlords would have the option to sell
to the incumbrancer, and then he must
sell by forfeiture and not at an option
fer himself. Applications to sell
would have to be made by all the
tenants on the estate, and all these
applications and sales would be regis
tered. The applicants would be required
70 give security for the costs in certain
cases. The land commission would be
empowered to refuse applications. The
bases OF the prices would depend upon
the rental for fixed prices. The judi
cial rental Of lS45 would be the standard
| in all cases wherein the rent of the land
to be sold was then fixed; in all other
cases the land commission would have
power TO arrive at the price by compar-
ing the other judicial rentals with the
Griffiths valuations. The land COM
mission would also be allowed TO
examine the state of the books
concerning estates for ten years
back. Twenty years rental would
te the nominal purchase. In excep..
tional cases twenty-five years rental
would make the purchase. Applica,.
after March LIST, 1890. Ten millions OF
pounds of stock would be issued during
1857, $4,000, 900 in 1883. f20. 600. 00o
in 1889 and $4,000. 900 In each
of the two succeeding year. When
the proposals were first placed
before the speakers colleagues he pro-
posed to raise $50 900 900 Immediately.
Chamberlain and Trevelyan objected TO
this, as 4 wholesale issue which would
depreciate values. The speaker, there
fore, thanked both gentlemen fol
having given him occasion to re
consider that original proposition
He now thought it was an
error to ask, forthwith. for anything
like the outside estimate and believed
that by appointing a receiver for gen
eral rents, armed with sufficient author
, ity to collect them, but without comini
into contact with the new proprietary
s he s N ne p secnred. III
charge upon the Irish exchequer wouli
be 81 900 900 per annum. TO meet which
il would be able to levy for rent
|. amounting to 20, 500. 900 per annun
and this sum would be the first. charg
| IN the rents and fares raised bY ID