The morning call., 1890-12-13

been gained by our race since the present
constitutional movement began"
Among the signers are Eugene Kelly Jo-
sepn D. ODonohue, William r. Grace, John
Byrne, Joseph F. DAILY and James S. Cole
man.
IN A NEW GuIsE.
The Herald's Kilkenny special says: Par
nell appeared in new guise to-day. He
was called upon early by the Secretaries of
two labor societies and was told they recog-
nized him RS their chief, and that Davitt was
the father of their movement. Parnell said
Davitt claimed to be the father of everything.
Soon after small committee of the Ma
tlenal League called. Word was at once
sent by Parnell to the correspondents. of
Mhom mere are about thirty, that he had
statement to make; so we filed into the room
In which he sat. His friends say he looks
well. lie is so thin his clothes hang loosely
ABOUT MIN. His lace is haggard, his eyes
look tred and his voice is husky and almost
gene; The last couple of weeks have told
physical.
PARNELL's STATEMENT
=, While ostensibly speaking to the League
COMMITTEE he really spoke to the CORE
spendents. The giSt of his statement was
as follows: Il have for several months
CONSIDERED CONSIDER questions relating. TO different
Dodies Of lrishmen, the position of the
National League Of Cork and the condition
Oh the laDorerS movement in Cork COUNTY
and have considered how far l, as your
leader. can and ought to reconcile the in
terestS oil the laborers' movement with the
interests OF the national movement" He
added that he did not consider the task in
superable. He looked to them for every
consideration and he would return the com
pilment fully.
had an interview with Parnell this after
noon, IN which he said:
- lp mapjfaetn nf tho daiauofae in, ,,,r
lea represents the situation as they imagine
IL was before the split, but not the situation
as 1t actually was. 1t was impossible that
we could communicate fully with them, as
fully
EXPLAINED THE SITUATION.
wanted the whole party to discuss
calmly all the points of difference and per-
NIL the country TO express its views either
tnrough elections or in Dublin and Cork. MY
OBJECT has been to preserve the unity of the
party. If after the whole party had consid-
cred tie situation. aud Ireland had been
gwen an opportunity of doing the same,
and both had demonstrated their belief in
The propriety and necessity Of the
ACTION TAKEN BY THE sECEDERs
There would not now be two parties in Ire
land. / am confident of winning l am
certain to have tho people of Ireland with
ME. Ihe result OF the election in Kilkenny
VIII certainly be an Indication of the gen.
eral feeling, but not beyond question, as it
is 10 country IN which my views are not
SO favora bly, entertained as elsewhere do
not consider the day tor compromise past
1t may be difficult to effect, but l am not of
the opinion that it is out of the question,
and If O'Brien and Dillon want to see me in
Paris shall be glad to see them"
o'BRIEN's DEPARTURE
New YORK, Dec. 13.-Just before going
aboard the steamer Obdam, which sails this
morning, William O'Brien said: DILLON,
OConnor and Sullivan will remain here,
and continue their appeal for the Eyicted
Tenants Fund. in the event of the con-
suliation in France proving successful.
Being unable to go by the French
steamer. we would have gone by the
German Lloyd steamer, but as ii calls
at Southampton, it is doubtful whether En-
glish authority would not be empowered tn
arrest me on board, and it is deemed ad-
Visabie to postpone my arrest until We shall
have completed our work in Paris What
conflict, it is perfectly certain that
those on both sides are single mind
ed men, acting most reluctantly under
painful sense of duty. Everybody knows
that any prolonged dissension in ireland
would be a madness and disgrace, and
that the only result would be that we should
have triumphant Tory majority flourish
ing over the ruins of our movement
One of the objects Of our Journey is
to communicate with Mccarthy and our
colleagues of the majority party. We have
no commission from them whatever, and any
conclusion we may come TO can bind nobody
except ourselves and our colleagues who re-
main behind in New York, whose views we