Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-25
Conference Between Francis joseph,
vii lam AID Humbert.
FRANCE The LAND OF SUICIDES.
An Englishman who Thinks he
Knows the Whereabouts of
Jack the Ripper"
lsrRolAl nrsrATonss TO TIE REconD-usaos.l
BALFoUR's NEW MEASURES.
He Discusses the Irish Land Problem at
Length.

LONDON, March 24tA.-In the House OF Com
mons to-day Matthews the Home Secretary in
reply 10 question by Lsbouchere, denied that
inspector jarvis had ever gone into business at
Del Norte, Colorado. near sheridau's ranch. for
the purpose of cleaning evidence to be placed
before the 2sruell Commission
Baliour intrOduC ed bill for the purchase of
land in Ireland and for the Improvement of
the poorer and more cOnges,ed districts The
olll also provides for the establishment OF an
lrish Land Department. Balfour said in prnppS-
ing the tormaton of land department tha.
the complex nature of the question presented
ltsef. There were now no fewer than i've
bodies for valuation and sale. The bill pro-
posed the amalgamation of these into one body
Regarding the question, "OUght the land pur.
chase oil TO be compulsory the Government
answered, NO, no." Compulsion should be
But when Justified by necessity in should be
applied. CompulSion could not be oue.sided
II they compelled landlords TO sell, they must
tofce the tenants 10 buy. The most coSeut rea-
son against compusion was that they could
not make bill compulsory without applying
1t TO the whole of Ireland.
The Government saw no poSSibi'it itv OF an i'm
mediate conSummation of the enormous trans
fer OF the whole land OF Ireland from the exist.
lug owners TO the existing occupierS Ought
they 10 throw any risk upon the British fax.
payer? The Government answered no still
British credit under perfectly secure cond tions
must be used
In dealing with the question of advances to
tenants to enable them 10 purchase. the Gov
ernment decided against advancing more than
twenty years rental, meaning the rent from
which has been deducted the local rates now
paid by the landlord.
Baliour then went On at great length TO eN-
plain the scheme of the security funds matter
being very complicated, The bill ia large por.
ions is the Ashtouine Act improved with addi-
tlons requiring security for purchases. etc.
After an elaborate financial detail showing
how the imperial eXchequer was ,eeuied
against default, Baltour said IL would be impos.
sible, unless there were repetition of the fam
inc OF 1873, that the guarantees aft ctiug the
poor law and the education grants would ever
be approached
1t is designed to use e-fourth of one per
cent. from the tenants annual four per cent as
fund for the erection OF laborers' dwellings
grant of million and a half from the Irish
Church surplus would be devoted to relieving
the congestion, fostering the industries and
ameliorating the condition of the poor districts
Balfour, in concluding, defended the scheme
as without risk to the imperisl-tax payer, while
eSS, ,00GS00 WAS advanced under the bill with
tl0,OOO,OOO OF the Ashboune Act, would estab-
llsh perpetual fund from which future pur-
chsses for tenants might be made
Gladstone said the scht me was certainly very
complicated and thanks were due to Balfour
for he obvious pains he had taken in its prep
aratinn 1t was premature, he added, to discuss
the involved proposals of the bill The bill
passed its first reading.