St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-19
IRELAND,S RENr WAR.
Fresh Legal Action Taken Against
the Leaders i'm the ssPlan OF Cam.

Fresh Legal Action taken Against
the Leaders i'm the ssPlan OF Cam.
paisn.,'
DUBLIN Dec. 18.-William O'Brien, who Is
now in Dublin, to-day received summons
similar to the one served upon him at
Loughrea, to appear here and answer to an
other charge of conspiracy to defraud."
Similar summons will be served soon, 1t is
said, upon John Dillon, William Redmond.
Daniel Gully, Daniel Sheehy and Matthew
Harris, all Parnellite members of parliament.
Tie alleged conspiracy to defraud consists in
accepting, as trustees for tenants, the re-
duced rents refused b. the landlords. 1t be-
gins to look as If the government has arranged
to resist the "plan of campaign" by arresting
the trustees under 1t in every locality
wherein they accept the refused rents. at
demonstration bed last night in Kilrush.
County Clare, in favor Of the 'plan of CAM
paign,' Jeremiah Jordan, Parnellite member
of parliament for West Clare. and Joseph
Richard Cox, Parnellite member for East
Clare, both
DEFIED THE GOVERNMENT
to do its worst by arrests and coercion
against the plan. The gentle N n openly de-
clared that the "plau of campaign" would be
reentlessy enforced against the large Van
deleur estate in County Clare, upon which
the rents are due to-day. 'We will bring
Vandeleur to his senses Tomorrow" said one
of the orators. ''by collecting his rents" Mr..
Kenney, member OF parliament, also spoke.
and said the Vandeleurs had been murderers
ever since 1916. Mr.. Cox, in his speech, said
that the Irish members of parliament now
relied upon the people, who. united in one
solid bond from the golden gate of San Fran
cisco to the seaboard of New York, from the
southern cross of Australia to the most
northern port, were resolved to abolish land
lords aud gain home rule. The agitation, he
claimed,
WOULD CRUSH COERCION.
With their powerful organization the Irish
party saw the freedom Of Ireland before
them in the immediate future. Mr.. Jordan
declared that rent had formerly been paid by
remittances FROM America. The American
people were resolved that no more of their
money should go into the pockets or the Irish
landlords. He eXhOrted the people to be firrn
and urgel them to only pay the rents based
on the yield of their holdings. Mr.. Cox had
private conference to-day with the tenants
on the Vandeleur estate, and arranged O
method to lodge the rents in the hands of q
trustee, which the tenants are now doing
The Irish executive has taken steps to declare
the plan of campaign illegal. The summons
served on Mr.. o. Brien calls upon him to APP
pear before the Dublin police court on We'd
nesday to answer a general
CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.
Messrs. Dillon, W. Redmond, Chilly, Harris
and Sheehy were also served with fresh sum-
nous to-day.
During the past two days every bit of the
rent owing by the tenants of the Fosbery
estates at Listowel, county Kerry. minus the
amount Of the reduction demanded by the
tenants and refused by the landlords, has
been collected, under the plan of campaign,
and quietly deposited with trustees, all nm
known to the authorities. Tim Hurley, the
tenant who on Oct. 20 last, with band Of
neighbOrs, successfully defended his hut at
Clonakilty from a force of constables and
police who attempted to evict him, and who,
with his friends, was subsequently arrested
while on their way to the tavern to celebate
the victory, was to-day acquitted and set at
liberty.
ENGLISH ACTION.
LONDON, Dac. 1S.-The proclaiming of the
anti-rent campaign In Ireland is accepted by
the leaders Of the National league as a step
on the governments part toward the suppress
sion of the league. The funds of the league
have already been transferred to France in
order to prevent their seizure by the authori-
ties, and the rent moneys deposited with
trustees will also be protected to guard
against government designs. The proclama-
ton warns all persons that melting tenants to
refuse to pay or to Withhold rents is illegal, and
the anti-rent movement by whatever means
carried out is criminal conspiracy. In adj
dition it says all moneys, receipts or docu-
ments given or received for the purpose of
such conspiracy are liable to seizure, and
that persons in whose possession the same
are found shall be arrested. This sweeping
measure is the production of Lord Ash
bourne, lord chancellor Of Ireland, and assent
to its PRONUNCIATION was obtained at yester-
DAYS cabinet council. 1t is hoped the En-
lish and Irish home ruler will now rest until
the meeting of parliament. when early action
can be taken in opposition to evictions and to
restrain the governments eosrctve activities.
In the meantime, however, the Unionist
papers clamor for immediate suppression of
the National league, ana even demand the
trial by jury in Ireland be suspended if the
juries refuse to convict the advisers Of the
anti-rent movement.