The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-17
The IRISH LAND BILL
LAID BEFORE THE COMMONS BY
MR.. GLADSTONE.
The Premier's Speech Explaining
the Measure.What 1t Is En-
pected to Accomplish.
WHAT PARNELL THINKS OF
THE BILL.
Chamberlain's Speech Defining His
Position on the Irish
Question.

LONDON, April 16.-Mr. Gladstone
propounded his Irish land bill to the
House Of Commons this evening
There was hardly any excitement at
tending the event, compared with the
enthusiasm which attended the men,
orable proceedings of yesterday week,
when the home rule measure was pre-.
sented. At noon to-day but ninety
sests on the floor of the house had
been "hatted," and these were nearly
all tssen by Irish members. At 4
o'clock the house was crowded to it's
utmost capacity.
Mr.. GLADSTONE
rose in his place at 5:25 pm, and was
greeted with cheers. When he begun
to speak his voice was low and husky.
He said the government was directed
toward securing contentment among
the people of Ireland and the perma-
nent restoration of social order. The
speakers proposals would greatly ben
eft the tenants Of Ireland, but the
landlords were the principal object of
the measure, although he thought
many Of these landlords were most
hostile to the governments policy. At
the outset the speaker wisht d to make
the most emphatic denial that it was
the intention to ask the Scotch and
English to run any pecuniary risk on
account Of the landlords Of Ireland.
THE HISTORY OF IRELAND
was one long indictment against its
landowners. Agrarian crime had
originated and increased under the
absenteeism of landlords and raising
of rents, as their expenses while away
from Ireland increased. Oppression,
welded to misery, had a hideous
progeny. Crime had been endowed
with vitality to perpetuate itself and
hand down its miserable inheritance
from generation to generation. Eng
land was not clear of responsibility,
for the deeds of Irish landlords were
English deeds. With the power in
our own hands, we have locked on
and done nothing. After the union
absenteeism became general. National
sentiment ceased to have beneficial
influence on the relations between
the landlord end tenant. The union
itself was obtained against the sense
and wishes of every class by
WHoLEsALE BRIBERY AND UNBLUsHINa
INTIMIDATION.
The land act was intended to 20 into
effect on the same day that the home
rule bill would become operative. 1t
could not go on without the operation
of the other, which would provide a
Legislature in Ireland to appoint
statutory authorities to deal with the
landed estates and act between vendor
and purchaser. The purchases would
bemade through the issueof EIsO,OOO,-
600 OF three per cent. stock issued at
par. These new Irish consols might.
with the consent Of the Treasury, be
commuted for stock of a lower de-
nomination. If the stock could
be issued for the State, scrip OF
equal amount would be issued for
the same purpose. The act was to
give the landlords the option TO cell
out under its terms. Its enactment
was confined to agricultural holdings,
and did not include mansions having
demesnes and woods. The State au-
thoritiee, acting between the peseant
and landowner, would purchase the
land from the latter and put the peas.
ant in possession as absolute proprie-
tor, subject to an annual rent charged
to the total payments of the purchase
money. The State would not force
the small oCcnpiers to become pro-
prietors. In districts where the
POPULATION WAS CoNaEsTKp.
the State would have the power to de
eide whether appropriation of the too
crowded lands should be compulsory.
Nobody except the immediate land
lords would have the option to
sell to the incumbrance, and
that he must cell by fore
closure and not at option for him
self. Application to sell would have
to be made by all the tenants on an
estate, and all these applications and |
sales would be registered. Tenants |
would be required to give security for
costs in certain cases. The Land |
Commissioner would be empowered |
to refuse application. The basis of
prices would depend upon the rental
for a axed period. The judicial
rental Of lS45 would be the 6 !audsrd
in all cases wherein the rent of the
land 10 be sold was then fixed. In all
other cacesthe LandCommission would
have the power TO arrive at price by
comparing the other judicial rentals
with Grifith's valuation. The Land
Commission would also be allowed to
examine the state of the books con-
cerning estates for ten years back.
twenty years rental would be q
nominal purchase in exceptional cases.
twenty-five years rental would make
a purchase. Applications for a ssle
would not be received after March 81,
1870. Ten millions of pounds of the
stock would be issued during 1887;
E2O.OOO,O00 in 1888; e20,0CO,OOO in
1883, and G20,000,000 in excess the
two succeeding years.
WHRN 1HK PROPOSALS
We're fret placed before the speakers
colleagues he proposed to raise eISo.-
100000 Immediately. Mr.. Chamber
lain and Mr.. Trevelyan both objected
to this SIS a wholesale issue which
would depreciate values. The speaker
therefore thanked both gentlemen for
having given him occasion to recon-
slider the original proposition. He now
thought 1t was an error to ask forth
with for anything like the outside esti-
mate, and believed that by appoint
ing receiver for the general rents,
armed with sufficient authority to [
collect them, but without com !
iDg into contact with the new !
the repayment of {
the purchase money would be amply Z
secured. The charge upon the Irish (
sxcheQuer would be e2,O0O,0OO per
annum, to meet which it would be I
able 10 levy for rents amounting to a
G., 100000 per snnum, and this sum {
would be the fTst charge on the rents =
aud taxes raised b. the Irish govern 4
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