The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-23
The IRISH LAND BILL.
THE DETAILS OF TIE MEASURE
MADE PUBLIC.
A Great Liberal Mass Meeting at
LOndOn-COnilict Between fur
key aud Greece.

LONDON, April %. The Irish land
purchase bill, which the House of
Commons last Friday night gave Mr..
Gladstone permission TO introduce,
was issued TO day. II covers twenty
six pages. The bill is divided into
five parts. There are fifty-two clauses
and four schedules. The b Il provides
that landlord who is DESTROYS to sell
his property shall apply TO the State
authority. The latter shall refer the
application thus made 10 a Land Com
mission, which, after masing an in
quiry, shall fix price at which the
property shall be sold, unless the
landlords and the State authority have
previously come to an agreement. II
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
creditor 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 case of
property whe con there is reasonable
cause to suppose that valu bic min
erals exist the commission shall add to
the purchase money a fair sum there
for, 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 Receiver-General and
deputies, who are to execute the
financial part Of the act, shall be APP
pointed to hold Office as permanent
civil servants, subject TO the authority
of the Treasury. They shall be paid
from the Imperial Exchequer, but the
Irish government shall appoint the
actual collectors. If the Receiver
General or any of his deputies shall
be guilty of malfeasance, the cuiprit
shall forfeit the sums so lost and also
shall be subject to a fine of $500.
The measure empowers the Treas
ury to create three classes of perma-
nent annuities, bearing interest, re-
spectively, at 8. "a and p 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 holding so long as it is subject to
any State charge; but the State au-
thority is empowered to relax these
rules where he may think it advisa-
Bile.
The other points of the bill were
covered by Mr. Gladstone's speech of
Friday evening last.
LIBERAL MASS MEETING.
A great mass meeting of Liberals
and Radicals as held at s.. James
Hall this evening Mr.. LaboucheIe
presided, supported by Messrs. Brad
laugh, Lawson, HOaell aud Picker
skill, members of Parliament, and
others. Thousands were unable to
cain admitiauce to the hall.
Mr. Lahouchere, elluding 10 the re-
cent Conservative Liberal home
rule meeting, said that Lord He 3
ton was an honest man, Mr.. Goscht
noble and Mr. ylan6s an afiluent ma q,
but that they had no more right t,
apeak y ae pSno - the pc pile tf
England than the three tailors of
Tooley street. At lO.night's meeting,he
continued, there were no peers decor
sted with orders on the stage and
no fashionable beau les in the boxes,
but there We're present laborers from
the f I'D and from the workshops, who
had met 10 raise their voices in sup
port Of Mr.. Gadstone's efforts to pass
tbs bill granting home rule to Ire
land. If he fill he would fall with
the demo cracy of the three Kingdoms
around him. Many who row refused
to give back Ireland her Parliament
were descendants OF the E aus who,
in their Parliament, sold their birth
right for pseTages.
Mr. Howell proposed a resolution
congrttuating Mr. Gladstone on his
endeavor to secure the pt rmanent
union of England and Ireland, and
expressing the hope that the home
rule bill wou'd become a law after be-
ing 30 med f. d as to harmonic with
the desires of the Radicals.
The resolution was seconded by Mr..
Leicester, member of Parliament,iin
supported by Mr. Lawson, and WAS
carried unanimously, as was also q
ret olution authorizing the Cbai man
to sign petition to the House OF
Commons in favor Of the bill.
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND,
At a crowded meeting OF Liberals
and Conservatives 10 the Chamber OF
Commerce at Belfast tn day, resolu-
tons we're passed vic emily condemn
ing the measure proposed by Mr..
Gladstone for the future government
OF Ireland.
FANNY" IN LONDON.
The woman known as Fanny"
who is meDt oned in connection with
the Crawford-Dilke divo,cs case, is in
London, and will testify at the new
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