The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-04-29
THE IRISH LAND BILL

THE IRISH LAND BILL
Mr. Gladstone Explains, In tho House Of
Commons, His Bill for tho Purchase OF
Irish Landslide vigorously DeHOunces
the Past Treatment of Ireland by the
English Government.
LONDON, April 16.-Mr. Gladstone pro-
pounded his Irish land bill to the house OF
commons this evening He said:
The aim OF the present endeavors OF the
government was directed towards securing
contentment among the people OF Ireland
and the permanent restoration OF 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 the landlords were most hostile
to the governments policy. At the outset
the speaker wished to make the most EN-
phatic denial that it was his intention to
ask the Scotch and English to run any
pecuniary risk on account OF the land
lords OF ireland. The history Of Ireland
was one long indictment against Its land
owners. Agrarian crime had originated
and increased under the absenteeism OF
landlords and raising OF rents as their cx-
penses while away from Ireland increased.
Oppression welded to misery, had a hide
GUS progeny. Crime had been endowed
with vitality to perpetuate itself and
hand down it's miserable Inheritance
from generation to generation. En-
gland was not clear OF responsibility, for
the deeds OF Irish landlords were English
deeds. With the power in our hands we
have looked on and done nothing. After
the union absenteeism became general. Ma
tional sentiment ceased to have a beneficial
influence on the relations between landlord
and tenant The union itself was obtained
against the sense and wish ofevery class by
wholesale bribery and unblushing intimi-
dation. The land act was intended to go
into effect on the same day on which the
home rule bill would become in operation.
1t could not go on without the operation
OF the other. which would provide legis-
lature in Ireland to appoint statuary au-
thority to deal with thelanded estates and
act between vender and purchaser.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLION POUNDS.
The purchases would be made through
the issue OF f1SO,OOO, 900 of per cent.
stock issued at par. These new Irish con-
soils might with the consent OF the treasury
be commuted for stock of a lower denom-
ination. Ii the stock could be issued forth
with, scrip of equal value would be raised
for the same purpose. The act was to give
the landlords the option to sell out under
it's terms. Its enactments were confined
to agricultural holdings and did not in
clude mansions having demesnes and
woods. The state authorities acting be-
tween the peasent and land owner W ouldpur
chase the land from the latter and put the
peasant in possession as absolute prOprie-
tor sub lect to an annual rent charge until
the total payments equaled the purchase
money. The state would not force the small
occupiers to become proprietors. In dis
tricts where the population was congested
the state would have the power to decide
whether appropriation OF the too crowded
land should be compulsory. Nobody ex-
cept the immediate landlord would have
the option to sell to the incumbrancers,
and then he must sell by foreclosure, and
not at option for himself. Applications to
sell would have to be made by all the ten
ants on an estate, and all these applica-
tions and sales would be registered. Appli-
cants would be required to- give security for
costs in certain cases. The land commits.
sion would be empowered to refuse appli-
cations. The basis Of prices would de-
pend upon the rental for fixed period.
The judicial rental OF 1S45 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 the power to arrive at a price
by comparing the other judicial rentals
with Gritfith's valuation. 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 be nominal purchase, in exceptional
cases twenty-five years rental would make
q purchase. Applications for sale would
not be received until March 81, 1890. Ten
millions OF pounds of the stock would be
issued during 1887, f2O,OOO,OOO in 1888,
and EGO, ,0OO,0 in 1889.
INSIDE HISTORY.
When the proposals were first placed be-
fore the speakers colleagues he proposed
to raise f13O, 900, 900 Immediately. Mr..
Chamberlain and Mr.. Trevelyan both OBJ
jected to this as a Wholesale issue which
would decrease value. The speaker there
fore thanked both gentlemen for giving him
occasion to consider that original PROPOSE
ton. He now thought it was an error for
them to be influenced by anything like an
outside estimate, and believed that by APP
pointing a receiver for the general rents,
armed with sufficient authority to collect
them, but without coming into contact
with new proprietors. the purchase money
would be amply secured. The charge upon
the Irish exchequer would be 600. 600, 900
per annum, to meet which it would be un-
able to levy for rents amounting to f2, 5OO,-
600 per annum, and this sum would be the
first charge on the rents and taxes raised by
thegovernment. Adding to this the imperial
contribution, the sum paid to England by
Ireland would be f6, ,622, 900 per annum,
secured on a revenue amounting to f1O,-
$50, 900, no portion OF which would be ap-
piled to any purpose until f6, OOO, 900 was
| paid into the English exchequer. The pres
| ent contribution OF the Irish taxpayers to
England was f6, $50, 900, of which England
paid back into the Irish civil service and
| in the service ofcollection "a, $40, 600. The
residue which seemed to represent an i'm
perial contribution for the army, navy,
| was f2,OS5, 5000. What did England
| do with it? As an instance, she sent
an army OF 10000 men to Ireland and
kept them there at an annual cost OF f3, :
| OOO, ,OOO-f915, 900 more than the balance
| mentioned. That was q specimen OF the
economy OF the system the speaker want
| ed to root up. Mr.. Gladstone commended
| the scheme to the strict, jealous, careful,
| unbiased examination OF Englishmen. He
| was convinced it would be recognized as a
| fitting part of the great suspicious effort
| to sustain the plans Of the British legisla
ture for the welfare Of what had long been
and the speaker hoped would ever be, un
Ger circumstances far happier than here
tofore, an integral part OF her majesty q
| dominion.
Mr.. Gladstone spoke an hour and thirty
five minutes, and concluded amid great
applause. Mr.. Gladstone's proposals dc
not imply u new issue Of f18O, 900, 600 in
3 per cents, but Of only ESQ, 900, ,OOC
from the f1SO, 600, 900 in new threes al
ready authorized. Following Mr.. Glad
stone, Mr.. Chamberlain spoke in oppo.
sition to the bill, saying in conclusions:
He was not an irreconcilable opponent
of Mr.. Gladstone's policy. II the lanG
proposals should be sufficiently modified
he would be happy to be relieved OF tn,
duty OF continuing his present attitude o
opposition.
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