St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-20
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Special Letter to The Globe.

LONDON, Nov. 19.-ln the house OF
commons this evening r. FL. Madden,
solicitor general for Ireland. brought
forward bill adding e5,000,000 to the
amount applicable under the Ashbourne
said the government thought that the
great success of the AShbOurne act
justified their seeking to enlarge its
operations. Mr.. Gladstone moved an
amendment that in lieu of voting
s5,0O0,0 5000 it would be expedient in view
of the snfferings arising from the
evictionS which had recently taken place
to extend the land law so as to empower
the courts to reduce or cancel such ar
rears of rent as might be found excess
Sive. He stated that the amend
ment did not strike at the Ashbourna
act. He did not desire to stop
its operations. He objected to the bill
because he believed the government
ought to have asked instead for linn
tied grant to enable it to continue the
operations of the AShbOurne act until
spring, when parliament could recon-
slider the whole matter. Instead OF do
ing this, the government had intro
duced a bill involving parliament i'll a
fresh approval of the land purchase pol
icy. Mr.. Gladstone, continuing, said it
was the manifest design of the govern
ment to withdraw the land question
from parliament for several years. That
could not be allowed. He did not de-
sire that the landlords should be re-
moved in the body. He wanted to see
them
RESIDENTS AND NOT ABSENTEES.
Under the AshbOurne act 95,0G0.000
had been obtained apparently as a prec-
. edent for getting the other five, thus
of making the state an immediate land
lord without proper guarantee. He OBJ
jected to the act as giving the landlords
the initiative of purchase instead OF the
peasants. Did the government, he
asked, refuse to deal with arrears be-
cause arrears would insure the Seryi-
tude of the tenant? This bill would en-
able landlords to increase rents, while
it would enable only handful of ten
ants to acquire holdings. Doubtless the
Irish tenants could be eulOgized as
scrupulous in paying fair rents,
but is another collapse in az
ricultural prices occurred the
farmers might be unable to pay even
instruments. The government, he de-
clared, was not justified in relying upon
good will to pay after the declaration OF
Lord Salisbury that majority OF the
people of Ireland were bent upon rlfling
the pockets of the minority. If Irish
men did not respect the pockets OF their
cOuntrymen. would the Irish respect the
English exchequer? Land purchase
had no immediate claim to the charac-
ter of an arrears question. The neceS-
sity for the settlement of arrears had
been acknowledged in the case of the
crOfters in Scotland, and there was
much greater need of it in Ireland,
where arrears had been defeated and
annulled and land law passed for the
beIiefit of tenants which
MADE THE LANDLORDS MASTERS
of the conditions of sale and the for
tunes Of the tenants. If the govern
ment desired to relieve the tenants,
they should deal with the question of
arrears instead of pressing a measure
providing facilities for augmenting
rents and multiplying evictiOHS. Mr..
GosclIen denied that the government
was pledged not to Introduce measures
involving protracted controversy during
the winter session. Mr.. Gladstone's
statement that if the government had
asked for just enough to keep the Ash
bourne act in operation till next session
the motion would have been agreed to
was not correct. Inquiry had been
made into the matter, aud the response
met with did not encourage the govern
ment to make the attempt. Dealing
with the question of land purchase was
not incompatible with dealing also with
arrears. The government would deal
with arrears in due course, The sug-
gestion of the ex-premier that the gov
eminent was practically conspiring to
allow the arrears to continue and to en-
courage eyictions was scarcely worth
a swering.
Mr.. O'Brien maintained that the bill
would make rich tenants richer, but
leave the poor GOLFERS in the West in as
bad position as ever. 1t was merely
plan to shovel English gold into the
pockets of the Irish landlords. Camp
bell Bannerman, Liberal, severely cen
sured the manner in which the govern
ment were thrusting the bill upon the
house. Before proposing the extension
there ought to have been select COM
mittee to inquire into the working of
the Ashbourne act.