Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE PARAELL COMMISSION. General Charges Brought .s By The Times.
 POLITICS AT 4 FUNERAL. Civil Service Corruption Bit
 terIy Denounced. BLAINE ON THE MILLS BILL. Samuel J. Tilden's Will
 Sustained.
THE PARnELL COMMISSION.

! ! The Times VIII Trx to Prove Par ! neIl,s Connection With Irish-Ameri- can Dynamfrers Tho Evidence Largely Documentary-Critici of she Times' Opening Charges. LONDON, Oct. 22.-The commission of three judges appointed to investigate the charges made by the Times against Irish members of Parliament opened court at Il o'clock this morning. MT. Parnell and numerous other Nationalist members of Parliament were present.
 Sir Charles Russell, as leading counsel for Mr. Parnell, opened the proceedings by ap- plying for the release from Wexford prison of MT. William Redmond. The application was granted on condition that he would take no part in public life and hold himself strict ly prisoner on parole. A discussion then ensued upon the length of time the court should sit weekly, but the court decided to meet every weekday except Saturday and asked counsel to expedite the proceedings. THE TIMES OPENS ITS CASE.
 Attorney General Webster then opened the case for the Times. He promised to give the court the fullest information in the Times
 
 against the Irish party which the Times had published. He would not treat the case as having anything to do with the merits or de- merits of home rule or of any supposed burning Irish question. The inquiry was strictly into the specific charges made in the O'Donnell action against the Times, and he would be care charges. The attorney general then pro- ceeded to review the Times articles on "Par- nellism and Crime," going over the old ground. It would be shown, said MT. Web- ster, that many of the men mentioned in the Times' particulars had personally taken part in crimes of the worst kind, while with scarcely any exceptions the persons mentions ed had never denounced outrages or crimes. Owing to the failure of the officers of the Narional league to comply with the comnnis- sion's order regarding the discovery of bank books, the Times counsel had been unable to shape their case ss they expected to. Still even without the bank books they would prove that money had been paid by the league to men appointed for the actual commission of acts of violence and crimes. Some of the men thus appointed were con nected with the American League and some were provided with money from funds ob- tained in Ireland.
 PARNELL AND THE LAND LEAGUE.
 From the outset of the Land leagues ex- istence, and since the formation of the Ma tional league, MT. Psrnell and his colleagues have been intimately associated with Irish- Americans who were advocates of dynamite. Remarkable evidence would be produced to prove this connection and to show also that an extraordinary number of untraced crimes were due to the indictment of the league. Referring to letters duplicating Mir. Parnell and others in crimes, MT. Webster promised to produce before the com mission all the let ters which had been mentioned in the trial of the ODonnell case. He then went on to recount the history of the leagues connection with agrarian agitations and showed how they were related to Fenianism. He recited many instances where Davitt, Devoy, Walsh, Egan, Brennan and Mattew Harris had held communications with the Psrnellite party and declared that they were linked to that party by common aims and interests.
 Here a recess was. taken for luncheon. When the court reasssmbled the Attorney General resumed quoting from speeches of nationalist leaders made from the year 1879 onwards.
 vAGUENEss OF THE TINES CHARGES.
 When the court adjourned for the day Mir. Webster was apparently only a small way advanced in the presentation of his case. The vagueness and general character of his state ment left an impression that the Times had no aDsoIute IeRal prooI or me LIutn or lts charges. Instead of producing evidence that Mr. PArnell and his associates were accom- plices before or after the fact with the Phoenix Park murderers he will attempt to justify the Times' accusseiens by raking up outra- ges attributed to members of the league and trying to connect them with the Parnellites. MT. Webster seemed to be hamPered by dread of committing himself beyond the most cautious statement. He spoke in his worst form, posing along in dreary mono tone without the least display of rhetoric. There was an utter absence of points in his statement and his exposition of the Times case was a generally disconnected one.