The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-23
THE IRISH LAND BILL.

ATl1I NtAIS-AAcN DOAO IA
the Past Treatment of Ireland by the
English Government.
LONDON, April 16.-Mr. Gladstone pro
pounded his Irish lane bill to the house o
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 oil
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
peCun!ary risk on account OF the land
lords of Ireland. The history OF Ireland
was one long indictment against it's land
owners. Agrarian crime had originated
aud increased under the absenteeism OF
landlords and raising Of rents as their eX.
penses while away from Ireland increased.
Oppression welded to misery, had a hide
GUS progeny. Crime had been endowed
VITA vitality to perpetuate itself and
hand down its miserable inheritance
from generation to generation. En-
gland was not clear OF responsibility, for
OAS VI iillulOINS "FIC Llkll5u
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 beneficial
influence on the relations between andlOrd
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 a legis-
lature In Ireland to appoint statuary au-
thority to deal with thelanded estates and
act between vender and purchaser.
oNE q Nj EIGHTY MILLION L
The purchases would be made through
the issue Of $50, 600, 900 OF 3 per cent.
stock issued at par. These new Irish con-
soils might with the consent of the treasury
be COMMITTED 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
its terms. It's enaCtments were confined
to agricultural holdings and did not in
elntfe mansions having demesnes and
woods. The state authorities acting be-
tNeenthe peasent and land owner wouldpur.
chase the land from the latter and put the
peasant IN possession az absolute proprie-
tor, subject TO an annual rent charge until
the total payments equaled the purchase
money. Thestate would not force the small
occuplers 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
a 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
nos at option for himself. Applications to
sell would have to be made by all the ten
ants on an estate, and all these applica-
tons and sales would be registered. Appli.
eants 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 a 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 Grifith's valuation. The land COM
mission would also be allowed to examine
the state of the books concerning estates
Tor ten years back. Twenty years rental
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cases twenty-five years rental would make
a purchase. Applications for sale would
not be received until March 81, i 30. Ten
millions OF pounds OF the stock would be
issued during 1887, EGO, 900. 900 in 1888.
and 10000, 600 in 1889.
INSIDE HISTORY.
When the proposals we're first placed be-
lore the speakers colleagues he proposed
TO raise f130, 600, 900 Immediately. Mr..
Chamberlain and sir. Treyelyan both OBJ
sected 70 this as a Wholesale issue which
would decrease value. The speaker there
lore thanked both gentlemen for giving him
occasion TO consider that original ~pronosi-
ton. lie 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 sithout coming into contact
with new prOprSstors. the purchase money
would be amply secured. The charge upon
the Irish exchequer would be 1900, 900, 900
per annum, to meet which 10 would be un-
able TO levy for rents amounting to f2, 500,-
@ per annum and this sum would be the
first charge on the rents and taxes raised by
the government. 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,-
$4,000, no portion OF which would be APP
piled 60 any purpose until f6, 600, 900 was
paid into the English exchequer. The pres
emit contribution OF the Irish taxpayers to
England WAS 60, $50, 900, OF which England
paid back into the Irish civil service and
IN the service ofeoiiection "a, SAC, 900. The
residue, which seemed to represent an inn
periai contribution for the army, navy,
nationel debt and imperial civil charges,
was e., 085, 600. What did England
do with itg As an instance, she sent
an army OF $4,000 men to Ireland and
kept them there as Al annual cost OF f3,-
600. O0O-f0I5. 900 more than the balance
mentioned. That was Specimen OF the
economy Of the system the speaker want
"a to root up. Mr.. Gladstone commended