Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-23
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Irish Land Purchase Bill
Again Debated.
ITS FEATURES, GOOD AND BAD.
Gladstone Critcises the Measure.
Churchill and Parnell's
Remarks.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
IT'S FEATURES, GOOD AND BAD.

| Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
LONDON, November 22.-The debate or
the Land Purchase bill was resumed in
the Commons tonight by Parnell. He
declared emphatically that he approved
the bill, but he believed it was sc
designed that under the present circum.
stances it would be impossible to put il
into effective operation. He had always
held that the creation of a peasant
proprietary was the only means of solv-
ing the land question. His own bill
simply asked that church tenants be al
lowed to acquire land by paying the
church commission annually for forty
nine years, rent equal to per cent On
the capitalized value OF the hold
ings. That would create no risk to the
imperial exchequer. The conservatives
opposed that proposal, but the time
would come when they would find il
needful to go further. The Irish party
were always ready and eager to assist in
the settlement of the land question. 1t
was calumny to say that any one of their
members tried to make political capital
out of the question, or opposed the bill
because it would make the government
of Ireland easier [cheers] On the con-
trary, their opposition to the bill was
due to the knowledge it would cause a
loss to the exchequer without effecting
its ostensible object. The Government
had not taken up the land
question with the view OF helping the
tenants, but at the solicitation of
the landlords, who, seeing they could
not any longer maintain the position,
wanted to dispose OF their property at
inflated prices. The only way to make
the landlords of congested estates agree
to accept the value of their property,
was 10 empower commission to pur-
chase at such prices as would really rep.
resent the landlord's S interests. ANY bar
gain with the farmers ought to have a
basis that would put reputation out of
the question. The present system of
the Government trampled upon national
feeling. If the Government meant to
thu scheme of large land pur-
chase, it was essential to establish in
Ireland representative of authority to
act as buffer between the tenants and
State. The tenants would have their Sc
and maybe 101 members of Parliament.
[ Parnelites cheer.l
Lord Randolph Churchill said the s.
sertion that the bill was introduced to
enable the landlords to sell at inflated
prices would not bear examination.
national sentiment, he ap-
pealed to Parnell to say what room there
was for romance in dealing with the
matter-of-fact advance and repayment of
Had Mr.. Parnell any alternative
bill? Would he support the principle
of Gladstone's bill of 1886? [Parnell
here gave negative shake Of the head
Then what other scheme?
Parnell-I would accept the bill if the
disadvantages connected with it were
modified by dealing with arrears.
Lord Randolph said he trusted, after
the recent speeches of the Ministers, the
Government would bring up the arrears
question early in the future. In the
he could not admit that coer-
cion initiated against land purchase.
Cheers
The bill passed second reading by a
vote of 300 to 224.