, 1890-02-14
COM MISSION REPORT.
Result Of the Investigation
Given to the House.
Comments by the Press Concern
ing Parnell.
House and Senate Proceedings
Yesterday.
rhe ParnelIite Commis.ion.

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Judges Hammer. Day and Smith, the
special commission to investigate the
charges made by the Times against Par.
nellites members of the house of com
mons, was laid upon the table in the
house to. day by Hon. Henry Matthews,
secretary of state for home affairs.
The report occupies 162 pages. Each
member of the house against whom
a charge was made was treated separately.
The judges find that speeches were made
by many Parnellites intended to bring
about a separation of Ireland from Eng
land, and that speeches of others, in view
OF the state of the country, were calcu-
lated to foment crime, as the speakers
must know.
Greatest interest centers in the final
conclusions which follow: First-We find
the respondents, members of parliament,
were not members of a conspiracy having
for its object to establish absolute indie
pendence in Ireland, but we fad some of
them, together with Davitt, established
and Joined TO the and league with the in
ton, by its means, to bring about the alb.
solute independence OF Ireland as a sepa-
rate nation.
Second-Respondents did enter into a
conspiracy, by a system of coercion and
intimidation, to promote agarlan agita
ton against the payment OF agricultural
rents for the purpose of impoverishing
and expelling from the country Irish
landlords.
Third-The charge that after denounc
ing crimes in public they afterwards led
their supporters to believe that such de-
nunclation was not sincere, is not estab-
lished. We entirely acquit Mr.. Parnell
and other respondents of the charge of
insincerity in their denuncialion of the
Phoenix Park murders, and we find a fac
simile letter upon which this charge is
chiefly based against Parnell is a forgery.
As to the allegation that respondents
invite the assistance and co operation of
and accepted subscriptions of money
from known advocates of crime aud the
use of dynamite, we find respondents
did invite assistance and co operation of
and accept subscriptions of money from
Patrick Ford. known as the advocate of
crime and dynamite, but it has not been
proved that respondents knew that the
Clan ma Gael controlled the land league
or was collecting money for a parliament
try fund but 1t proved respondents in
vited and obtained assistance and CO.
OpSiobiOh Nv phS oiSdl lOIC1 VI tue party
In America Inclu ing the Clan ma Gael
and In order to obtain that assistance alb
stained from repudiating or c%ondemning
the action of that party. Besides these
there remain three specific charges against
Parnell personally, namely:
A.-That at the time of the Kilmaiu-
ham negotiations Parneli knew that
Sheridan and Boynton had been the or
ganlzers of outrages and therefore wished
to use them to put down outrages. Not
proved.
B-That Parnell was intimate with
leading invincibles, that he probably
learned from them what they were about
when he was released on parole in 1882,
and that he recognized the Phoenix Park
murders as their handiwork. We find
there is no foundation for this charge,
and that the invincibles were not a part
of the land league.
Chat Parnell by an opportune re.
mittance enabled f. Byrne TO escape
from justice to France, we find that Par
nell didn't make any remittance to enable
Byrne to escape.
The mass of evidence proved that the
Irish league in America had been directed
by the Clan ma Gael and been actively en-
gagged in promoting the use OF dynamite
for the destruction of life and property in
England. 1t further proved that while
the Clan ma Gael controlled the league in
America, these organizations concurrently
collected sums amounting to over $500, 900
for a fund where a form Of payment
should be made to the Irish members of
commons. 1t has not. however, been
pro ed that Parnell knew the position of
the Clan na Gael, the circulars of that body
besides the evidence of Lecaron showing
its operations we're kept secret.
LONDON, Feb, l3.-The Morning Post
in an article on the Parnell commission
report says: We sincerely congratulate
Parnell, who has unnistakable, 30 far as
his personal character is concerned, been
the victim Of a gross injustice, and whose
separation from these exodus imputations
will 10 much to neutralize the shock
given to public confluence by the long
unanswered repetition of such charges,
but apart from the charges against the
leaders there still remains a residium of
charges too serious to leave any dispas-
sionate mind unaffected. 1t remains for
the British electorate to estimate alike
the acquittal of Parnell and the condem.
nation OF Davltt, though honor is due to
Davitt that he was the chief denunciator
of the crimes and outraRes.
LONDON, Feb. 13.-The London Neus
says the report OF the Parnell commission
amounts to a practical acquittal. The
basis of ''Parnellism and Crime" with
he hideous superstructure raised upon
it disappears from view. The Times
leaves 1t to the public to Judge whether
the report does not confirm, though in
colonrless, guarded. judicial language
the main part of the statements in its
articles on "Parnellism and Crime"
The Telegraph says: [ pom all the
serious charges the verdict is not guilty
or. not proven. The issues upon which
the verdict is against respondents are
those as to which the majority of the
English public has already pronounced an
informal verdict of guilty.
The Chronicle says: The history of
''Parnellism and crime" from its birth to
its burial, in this report is a history of
the most colossal fiasco in political jour