Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-03
In FOREIGN LANDS.
In FOREIGN LANDS.
Michael DaYitt TestifeS Before the
Pafnoll Commission.
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MICHAEL DAVITT.

No Alliance Between the Clan-na- Gael
and the League of Ireland.
LONDON, July 2i.-Michael Davitt was
examined before the Parnell Commission
to-day. Davitt declared there was no truth
in the account given by LeCaron before the
Commission concerning the proposals of
John Dewey being submitted to Parnell.
Parnell had nothing to do with witness
visit to America in 1873. Witness had in
tended to make another visit TO America
on lecturing tour to raise money to help
the agrarian movement.
Davitt stated that while in America he
attended meeting of the Gamma Gael, at
which he explained the objects of the Land
League and tried to win the Clan-na-Gael
to its support. The Grammatical, he said,
included some of the best Irishmen in
America. 1t was no more murder club
| than was the Carleton Club of London.
There was no alliance between the Clan
| na-Gael and the League in Ireland. The
League movement in America won the
support of all the Irish in America to Par
| nell. The witness said that he himself
was opposed to the use of dynamite, be-
cause 1t was an immoral and unmanly
style OF warfare. He was not opposed to
| physical force if, in resorting thereto, there
was reasonable chance of success.
Davitt said he had known Alexander
Sullivan since 1878 and had the highest
| opinion of his ability as lawyer, his char
acter as citizen and his honor as a man.
He did not believe him capable of any dis
| honorable act.
In reference to the Phmnix Park muir
| ders, Davitt said: "Parnell came to me on
the Sunday following the day of the muir
ders, utterly broken down at the news. He
said: 'Dayitt, | shall send my resignation
to Cork tonight. | refuse to stay in a
movement where irresponsible men of
whom we know nothing can come behind
our backs and perpetrate such deeds 1t
took all my influence to dissuade him from
resigning. We Immediately had circu-
lated throughout Ireland a manifest of
condemnation that there was absolutely no
| ground for the suggestion that l or any of
my colleagues were in any way priyy TO
| the crimes"
Davitt continued: Beyond stating pub
licly in New York in July, 1882, that | had
| severed my connection with the revolu-
tionary body, | expressed no dissent of the
Fenians. did not attend any meeting of
| the Clan-na-Gael after 1880. | believe the
murders were committed by members of
the Gael, but the perpetrators did
not have the sanction of the governing
body nor the approval of its leaders"
| Witness, continuing, said that in a letter
which be wrote he used the word "pen,"
meaning a revolver, but he declined to say
to whom the letter was addressed.
| The Attorney General Was it to Ar
thur Forester"
| Davitt-" | cannot say without possibly
| injuring man who greatly wronged me"
| Presiding Justice Harmon said the Court
respected the motive for witness reticency,
but he could not recognize it as an excuse
for not answering.
Davitt thereupon said the man to whom
| the letter was written had conceived the
hatred of another member of the League
and wished TO murder him. Witness wrote
to him appearing to sanction the act he
meditated, but really to gain time until he
| could write to two superior officers and ask
| them to dissuade the man from carrying
out his purpose. The expression used in
| the letter was: whoever is employed do
not let him use the pen we have been
using"
Witness wrote to two superior officers
about the matter, but he could not tell
their names. Davitt said the dear friend
to whom was addressed the letter in which
the word pen" appeared, was now in
America, and he appealed to him to d.
vulge his name.
| be believed the outrageS were due to the
! agitation of the local agrarian bodies, COM
posed principally of sons of tenant farm
| ers. Witness was glad there was pros.
pect of the agitation ceasing. He disliked
agitation, and would willingly abandon 1t
tomorrow if he saw some justice done to
Ireland. He could not abandon it other