The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-01
Purchase or the Advance Of Any
Specified Sum of Money from the Imperial
Treasury Not Involved in Any Way.
Measure that Will Not Increase the
Public Debt or Work any Hardship.
The Rioting in Belgium Comes to an End. and
the Strikers Open Negotiations for Re-
sumption of Work-NOtes by Cable.
GLADsTONE's SCHEME.
A Plan the Simplicity of Which Surprises
the Radicals and Tories.

Plan the Simplicity of Which Surprises
the Radicals and Tories.
LONDON, March 81. The Dublin Freeman's
Journal states that the Irish land bill which Mr..
Gladstone will propose does not involve either a
compulsory purchase or the advance of any
specified sum from the imperial treasury.
What the measure will enact will be the right of
any owner of land in Ireland to claim from
the government of Ireland, after home rule
has been granted the privilege of being bought
out at sum regulated by law. This sum will
be arrived at by multiplying the amount of the
rent by p term of years to be agreed upon by
Parliament In all cases where the owners put
in such claims to be bought out. the imperial
exchequer is to provide the purchase money.
he Irish government is to guarantee
repayment, and is to attend to the business of
reimbursing the empire for all these outlays by
disposing of the purchased lands to occupiers,
and collecting, in the shape Of payments there
for, such rents as will cover the whole sum back
in forty-nipe years. AS at present framed, the
bill fixes the rents to be paid by the tenants at
4 per cent per annum on the amount Of the pur-
chase. When the tenant has paid in rent to the
Irish government the amount the land cost the
government he is to become the owner. AL
though the tenant is to pay the Irish govern
ment per cent. per annum the latter will be
responsible to the imperial exchequer for but 81
per cent per annum, the difference to go to
sinking fund 70 meet bad debts, the cost of col
lection, etc.
The measure. as outlined by the 'Freeman's
Journal is 80 vastly different from the one at
tributed by certain Radicals and Tories to Mr..
Gladstone, as to occasion astonishment The
present bill does not compel am exodus of
Englishmen from Ireland. It simply enables
the government, in a gradual and reasonable
way, without increasing the public burdens or
running the risk of loss, to adjust the conflict of
interest between the peasantry and the land
owners of Ireland, enabling those who find resi-
dence in Ireland desirable to remain there as
long as they please, and assisting those who find
it otherwise TO leave without suffering injustice
The Post says: "Mr Parnell and Mr.. Glad
stone are both confident that the Irish vote will
secure sixty additional seats in England for the
Liberals in the event of dissolution of Parlia-
mentp
Tie Standard congratulates the Conservative
party upon the return of Lord Salisbury to
uAuotcI tA0 OppOSAuS AVECoS 6RdIuSb OIaU-
stone. It asks whether the seceders are willing
to help the Conservatives or to allow the Con-
servatives to help them, and adds: "To sink
party differences is now public duty"
It is stated positively that Mr. Chamberlain
has abandoned his idea of the formation of an
Irish National Council. He is also said to be
opposed to the lessening of the number of Irish
representatives in the House of Commons