The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-21
FOREIGN.
Mr.. Gladstone Arrives In London In
Renewed Health.
He Receives an ovation from the
People and Members of the
House.
Parnell's Mastery and Eloquent
Speech in the Commons.
Startling Revolutionary Outbreak in
Madrid.

LONDON, Sept. 20.-Mr. Gladstone attend
ed this evenings session of the House of
Commons. A crowd had assembled outside
to see him and gave him an ovation when he
came. He was received with similar de-
monstration by the members of the House
when he appeared on the floor. Gladstone
looks as if enjoying robust health.
Lord Randolph Churchill announced that
the government would at the next session
introduce bill to facilitate the transfer of
land, reducing the legal cost. This an
nouncement was received with cheers.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, replying to an interrogatory by
Mr.. Parnell, said that since June 18th 1000
families, comprising 5,311 persons, had been
evicted in Ireland, and that of these $50 fam
lilies, including 1926 persons, had been read
mitted to their former premises as care
takers.
ParnelPs Speech.
Mr.. Parnell, in moving the second reading
of his land bill, said that the recent elections
conveyed a mandate to the House of Com
mons that it should show itself willing and
able to provide for the wants of Ireland
equally as if ii was an Irish Parliament.
lCheers.) 1t was useless to talk about the
1ateness of the session; the House was only
six weeks old A majority of the new mem
berS were young, fresh and not overworked,
and they did not require a holiday. The
state Of urgency existed with reference to
LUt T6ldLlOuS DcbWbGn LIt lduUlOIQS anu LCll-
ants in Ireland. Mr. Parnell here explained
the provisions of the bill
The first clause, he said, was the most
important because it dealt with most ur-
gent subject. 1t enacted that if any statu-
tory tenant, whose rent was fixed prior to
the last day of the year 1884, might apply for
an abatement in accordance with the pro-
visions of the BILL The bill was to be
temporary measure with the exception Of
the second clause. 1t was intended to pro-
.l..Ll L. I.A ,lxr tam
porary emergency. 1t was intended TO meet
the depression in price, but he could not tell
now whether depression was likely to con-
tinue. The depression commenced In 1885
and had continued unabated ever since:
There are no signs of the discovery said
Mr. Parnell "Indeed, signs for the future
are growing worse, but only ask the House
to take action with regard to rents falling
due next November, and that will be in the
next session of Parliament. Until the House
is able to take action on the report Oh the
royal commission we will abstain entirely
from prejudicing the government proposals:
But we do know that since the bulk OF
judicial rents has been fixed there has been
a great depression in prices. The potato
blight has spread to an alarming extent.
Therefore it behooves the House to apply
temporary remedy now and not wait for the
royal commission to report or the govern
ment to take action thereon, which will be
impossible before November, 1887, supposing
the House adjourned until the middle of
February. A similar delay occurred in the
consideration of the land act of 1881 and the
arrears act of 1882. Therefore, unless the
House accedes to my proposal, tenants and
landlords will remain in St0tu quo for
year. (Cheers,)
Our opponents will probably urge that it
will be exceedingly difficult for the land
court to ascertain whether the tenants are
was a similar difficulty to overcome in con-
nection with the arrears act of 1882. The
court satisfied itself within five months, of
the inability of 100000 tenants to pay their
rents. Cheers. A similar quickness and
expedition will follow my bill, and the work
will probably be finished in three months. l
propose further that the tenant shall deposit
half of the amount OF his rent, leaving the
court to determine how much of the remain
ing half the tenant shall pay, and how much
act the tenant deposits only one-third of his
rent the landlord losing one-th1rd, and the
State advancing the remaining third. The
only practical difference l make is that the
State shall not be loser. In regard to the
suspension of the evictions, my bill again
closely follows the lines of the arrears act,
which act worked justly and satisfactorily
for all parties. The costs of evictions fire.
quently exceed the amount of rent due. and
therefore it is necessary to suspend eyictions
to save tenants additional costs. (Cheers).
As regards the lease-holders' clause, it will
probably be objected to on the ground that it
ought not to have place in the temporary
bill. But the lease-holders have been waiting
long enough, too long, in fact, and l would
not be a party to the horrible injustice OF
their perpetual exclusion from the benefits
of the act of 1882" Cheers.
Mr.. Parnell quoted at length from statis-
tics to prove that the fall in prices of pro-
duce was not exaggerated. 1t is estimated,
and as an average, that rent deductions
amounted to 10 per cent, to be bad without
taking into account the increased loss OF
labor, owing to the emigration OF able
bodied men. The land act of 1881, therefore,
did not benefit the tenant farmers. The land
commissioners themselves virtually admit
that the rents fixed prior to 1885 were too
high, because the rents fixed for the flrst SIX
months of 1886 were greatly reduced as COM
pared with the rents fixed earlier, averaging
is per cent. less. (Cheers.)
He admitted that the evictionS at the end
of 1885 and the beginning OF 1886 were fewer
than those which occurred Immediately after
the passing of the land act. This decrease
in the number Of evictions he attributed to
the fact that at the end of 1885 the Earl OF
Carnarvon, who was then VicerOy, appealed
to the landlords to refrain from evicting ten
ants at the beginning OF 1886, and to the TACT
that Mr.. Morley, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, had always discouraged evictions, But
both of these factors had ceased to exist, and
the number of eYictions had again become
alarming. "The present Viceroy" said Mr.
Parnell, sis noble lord of whom little @ IS
present Chief Secretary, Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, says he is going to leave the tenants
to their fate, as in no case must the loss be
borne by the landlords
The speaker disputed the accuracy OF Slr
Michael Hicks Beachs eviction figures, and
said that the quarter ending the present
month would show higher average of evic-
ton than any quarter since 1880.
If the government. he said, with the
| bill should stay evictions in Kerry, it
rnt,16 n fO rQCfnrn than
| General Buffers put together. (Cheers.) He
| claimed that the bill was essentially mod
crate and calculated to pull matters smooth
| ly through the winter. Parnell concluded
| the second reading of the bill, which he said,
would benefit the landlords themselves.
| The working of the land act of 1881, showed
| that there waslalmost as few just men among
| Gomorrah. (Cries of Oh, and laughter) If it
| had not been for the landlords you might
| possibly have conciliated the Irish people
| you rule in their folly. The landlords you
| placed there as your stewards, proved false
| to their trust, and oppressed their tenants
| who have the utmost confidence, that as an
| act of Justice Parliament will not permit the
| bill to be lost (Cheers.) ParnelPs speech
| occupied one hour and twenty minutes in
| the delivery.
Revolution in Madrid.
MADRID. Sept. 2O.-A revolution was at
tempted last evening by a number of Spanish
troops quartered in this city. The uprising
was i'll planned and i'll managed, and practi-
cally amounted to but little more than a
| mutiny.
The trouble was inaugurated by a regiment
of infantry quartered in the Gil Bias bar
racks. The soldiers revolted. broke down a
portion of the wall that separated them
from the quarters occupied by tLe f cav ebaValry a
| cavalrv regiments. number of whom Joined