Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-20
FOREIGN T0FlGs.
BISMARCK ATTACKED BY RUSSIAN
NEWSPAPERS.
A Lively Sunday in Tipperary-Ital-
ian Rioters Routed-Victoria
and Her Daughter.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RpoonD-uS1os.I
IRISH LAND PURCHASE.
Gladstone's Argument Against the Ash
bourne Act.


LONDON, November 19th.-In the Com
mons this evening Madden, Solicitor Gen
erai for Ireland, in the absence of Balfour,
WHO IS i'll, brought in bill TO further fa-
cilitgte the purchase by tenants of land by
adding $4,000 600 to the amount applicable
under the Ashbourne Act He declared
that The Ashbourne Act was great success.
There had been IA 33S signed agreements
for the purchase of land, of which S,632
We're completed. Only two courses were
opened 10 the Government-one was to
abandon the scheme of land purchase. and
the other to extend the Act. The fact that
the Act had been a conspicuous success
justified the Government in seeking 10 en-
large its operation.
When Madden had finished Gladstone
moved the following amendment to the
Governments proposal: That in lieu of
voting five million pounds it is expedient,
in view of the lamentable sutferings arising
from recent evictions, TO extend the land
law of 1887 SO as to empower the Courts to
reduce or cancel arrears cf rent found to be
excessive
He complained that the Government
had broken its pledge to the House, after
obtaining the whole command of the time
at the disposal of its members under the
engagement that no controversial measures
should be introduced. Here was a bill of
the first Importance challenging discus
sion. 1t was submitted with the threat
that it be put forward daily until settled.
His protest was equally against the mode
of presenting the bill and the method in
which the discussion is to be pressed His
amendment did not strike at the Ashburne
Act, nor would it necessarily stop lis oper-
alton. He objected to it because of the
amount demanded. 1t was the manifest
design of the Government to withdraw the
subject of Irish land from the view of Par
Lament for several years. [Cheers That
was not the course which could be allowed
The opposition was not insensible to the
value OF land purchase. He did not desire
to see the landlords nor any other class re-
moved in body. He wanted to see them
not less, but great deal more Irish than
they were and to see them residents, in
stead of absentees from Ireland The prip-
ciple OF previous land Acts was totally diff
fereut from the Ashbourne Act, under
which five million pounds were obtained
apparently as precedent for further five
millions-thus drawing the House, by slow
degrees, into q system from which there
was no escape from putting the land into
the hands of the State, and making the
State the immediate landlord, without pro-
per guarantees.
ne ASldUSlOueJ ntO always Op1ectel 10
the Ashbourne Act as giving the initiative.
Il was certain that this bill would give the
landlords leverage to bring up rents.
which would enable only handtQi of ten
ants 10 acquire holdings. Certainly il
would assist the Government in their land
purchase scheme, hut under what made
quate and precarioUs security for the repay
ment of advances? The Government was
not justified in relying upon the tenants
will to pay, after the recent declaration of
Lord Salisbury that a majority of three
millions in Ireland were bent upon putting
down the minority of two million in order
to get at and rife their pockets. TCheers
If the Government had the tenants wei
fare earnestly at heart - if, instead of
supporting the landlords, they meant
to relieve the distressed tenants-they
would deal with arrears, instead of
pressing q dangerous measure which pro-
vided machinery for preventing the reduc-
ton of rent, and which afforded facilities
for augmenting rents and multiplying evic-
tions, with all their horrible incidents.
Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
denied that the Government was pledsed
not to introduce controversial measures
during the winter session. Gladstones
statement that, if the Government had
asked just sufficient TO keep the Act in Cd
Grafton until The next session, it would
have been granted, was incorrect The
immediate extension of the Ashbourne
Act was necessity. 1t was desired by the
tenants. The Government was prepared
to deal with Arrears in the due course of
fine