Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-22
PARNEIL TALKS.
The Goschen Land Bill Not
TO His Mind.
A FEW GRAVE OBJECTIONS NOTED.

He Has a Scheme of His Own Which
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LONDON, April 22-Ths attack On Bal
tours Irish land purchase bin was begun in
ths hsass of commons yesterday By
| ParnelI, who, after haunting the Tories for
coming round TO the views Of the National
lists, said they had not come far enough
| around yet. He wantei 70 know whether
| the British taxpayer would stand the propo-
| si.ion Generally the blIl wouldn't do, be-
cause il was a scheme 20 help the landlords,
not the tenants Parnell objected 10 the
| bill on the ground that il did not provide
| for carry ing out what ii proposed. while it
| exhausted the only Irisa credit available
| The bill, he declared ~as unsafe to The i'm
| periAl taxpayer, the guarantees and counter
| guarantees il provided being iliusory and
| insufficient.
The Irish Not Consenting-
| Parnell further objected To the bill lie
/ cause il would exhaust the Irish credit
| without the consent Of the Iri-h and with
out any local control in the application Of
the money 70 be distributed under the pro-
| visions Of the biil. Again, while coercion Is
| applied as il l. now the tenant can never lie
a free agent. The bill did no: deal with the
| congestei districts. Dealing with the in
sufficiency of the bin Parnell said that the
land question was not 50 large many
| people supposed, but they could make it
! large by the method Of purchase proposed
/ IL adopted the bill must make the quest ion
larger question.
Not One-Fourth Enough Money.
The principl, of the bill was to buy whole
ESTATES and CO, go o0 was ridiculously
l inadequate sum for the purpose ireland
| contained Il coo 90 acres Of land, the poor
| law valuation of which aa,0O0 90
| amounting at eighteen and half years pur-
| chase to 4l65. 81. go, which amount would
be necessary to provide solution Of the Land
question Otherwise tbree-guarters of the
| question would b. left untouched Nine
| tenths of the Landlords would have no pros
| pect except to continus the STRIFE with ten
| ants trying TO obtain the same treatment as
the favored minority
Proposes a Crucial Test,
| Parnell said that true test of the worth
of the guarantees provided would be for
| Goscben to take them to the London mar
l
| them The securities, he said can not be
real unless they effect settlement Of the
| question under local authority Otherwise
the bill is parody on land purchase and a
swindle on the English tax payer. IChsers
If you adopt the limit of tenants not
exceeding go valuation YOU reduce the
| amount needed to work Mr. Balfour pro-
poses TO give The landlords 50 many years
pUrchsse for reducing the rents Of Judicial
tenants to satisfactory standard The
landlord may Use the money SO obtained u
| pay off the most onerous membranes
thus effacing the heavy arrears of interest,
while the tenants will get the - per cent
reduction they clamor for, without which
| peaceable agrarian relations are impossible.
| I'Hear! Heart
| Has a scheme Of His Own.
Parnell suggested proposal for substi-
tute for Balfour's bill which be described
elaboratey. 1t is full of terms that are IN
ineligible II any one not thoroughly posted
on the involved Irish land question The
| Parneliite members are divided in opinion
on Parnelrs motion, and think a COM
plete explanation Necessary