Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-21
pARNELA TO TIE FRONT.
Tse Treats the House of Commons TO a
PiecS of His Mind.

PiecS of His Mafd.
LSsSDoN, September 20th.-In the House
of Commons to-dey Parnell. in moving 20
a second reading Of his land bill. said the
recent elections conveyed mandate to the
House Of Commons that it should show
itself willing and able to provide for the
wants OF Ireland equally as if it were an
i'lsil Fafllament. LCheers.l 1t was useless
! To talk about the laieuesS of the ses-
sion. The House was only six weeks
Old. The majority Of the new members
were yngDg. fresh and not overworlled.
/ aud they sd not require q holiday 4
state of urgency existed in reference TO the
relations between landlords and tenants in
Ireland. Parnell here explained the pro-
visions of lis bills. The first clause.
he said, was the most important,
because il dealt with the most urgent sub
jec,s. It enacted that any statutory tenant
whose rent was Fixed prior 10 the last day
of the year 1854 might apply for an abate-
ment in accordance with the provisions Of
the bill. The bin was to be temporary
measure, with the exception of the second
clause. II intended to provide for what he
hoped would be only a temporary emer-
gency-to meet the d, pressions in prices
but he conld not tell now whether the de-
preston was likelyto continue. The
DErREssIoE COMMENCED ~ 1885
And continued unabated ever since.
There are no signs for the future that we
are growing worse" he said, but / only
ask he House TO take action with regard
to rents falling due next November, and
that will be in the next session of Parlia-
ment. Until the House is able to take ac-
ton on the. report of the Royal
Commission we will abstain en-
tirely from preiudicing the Govern
ments proposals; but we do know
that since the bulk of judicial rents have
been fixed, there has been great depression
in prices. The potato blight spread to an
alarming extent. Therefore, it 6ehooves the
House to apply n temporary remedy now
and wait for the Royal Commission TO re-
port. or for the Government to take action
thereon, which will be impossible before
November, 1887. Supposiug the House adj
iourned until February. a similar delay
occurred in the consideration Of the Land
Act of 1881 and the Arrears Acr Of 1So2.
Therefore, unless the House accedes 10 my
proposal, tenants and landlords will re-
main in statu quo Tor ano her year.
oUR OPPONENTS
viii probably urge that it will be exceed
ingly difficult for the Land Court to ascer-
tain whether the tenants were really un-
able to pay rents but there was similar
difficulty to overcome in connection with
the Arrears Act of 1882. The Court salts
fed itself within five months of the inabil-
ity Of 1000 tenants TO pay their rates.
lCheers Similar quickness and expedi-
ton will follow my bill, and the work will
probably be finished in three months.
l propose further, that tenants shall de-
post half the amount of their rents. leav-
ing the Court to determine how much of
| the remaining half the tenants shall pay
and how much the landlords shall lose.
Under the Arrears Act the tenant deposited
only one-third of his rental, the landlord
losing one-third, and the State advancing
| the remaining third. The only practical
difference is that the State shall not be
! loser.
CONCERNING EMOTIONS.
"In regard to the suspension of evictions,
my bill again closely follows the lines OF
the Arrears Act, which Act worked Justly
and satisfactorily for all parties. Tie costs
of evictions frequently exceed the amount
of rent due. 1t is necessary to suspend evic-
tions to save tenants additional cost
In regard to the lease-holders' clause,
it viii probably be objected to because it
ought not TO have place in n temporary
bill; but the lease-holders have been waiting
long enough, too long, in fact, and would
not be a party TO the horrible injustice
that there should be Il perpetual exclus on
from the benefits of the Act of 1882"
[Cheers. Parnell quoted at length from
statistics to prove that the fall in the prices
of produce was not exaggerated. The
speaker disputed the accuracy of Sir Mi
chael Hicks-Beach's eviction figures, and
said the quarter ending with the present
month would show q higher average Of
eyictions than any quarter since 1851.
HOW TO RESTORE PEACE.
If the Government, armed with this bill,
should stay evictions in Kerry it would
do more to restore peace than could all the
General Bullers put together. [Cheers.l
He claimed that the bill was essentially
moderate end calculated 70 pull matters
smoothly through the winter.
Parneil concluded by earnestly entreating
the House to allow Il second reading of the
bill, which he said would benefit the land
lords themselves. The working of the
Land Act of 1881 showed that almost
few inst men among the landlords had
been found in Seldom and Gomorrah.
[Cheers and laughter J If it had not been
for the landlords" he said, YOU might
possibly have coucliated the Irish people.
You rule in their folly. The landlords
the men you have placed there as your
stewards, proved false 10 their trust and
oppressed their tenants who have the Ut
most confidence that, as an act Of justice,
Parliament will not permit the bill to be
lost" [Cheers [rbe speech occupied one
hour and twenty minutes in delivery