The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-14
PARNELL INDICATED
The Report of the Commission
Appointed to Investigate
THE LONDON TIMES CHARGES
Against the Irish Leader Finally Made-The
Land League and Crime-DOminatiOn
Of the Clan-na-Gael.

the Times against the Parnellite member:
OF Ihe house OF commons, was laid upon the
takle in the house to-day by Hon. Henry
Matthews, secretary of state for home at
fairs.
The report occupies 162 pages. Each
member of the house against whom charges
are made is treated separately. The judges
find that the speeches made by the Parnell-
ties were intended to bring about the sep
aration of Ireland from England, and that
the speeches of others in view of the state
of the country, were calculated to foment
crime as the speakers must have known.
The greatest interest centres in the final
conclusions, which are as follows. Give
find he respondents, members of parlia-
ment. were not members of conspiracy
having for its object to esta olish the abso
lutte independence of Ireland, but find that
some Of them, togesher with Davitt, es-
tabished the Land league with the inten-
ton OF by its means to bring about the alb
sGuts independence of Ireland as a sepa-
realization.
'22That the respondents did enter into
conspiracy by a system of coercion and
igtimidation to promote an agrarian agita-
ton against the payment Of agricultural
rents for the purpose of impoverishing and
eXpelling from the country Irish landlords
''3-Hne charge that after deneunciug
certain crimes in public they afterwards
led their supporters to believe that such
denunciaton was not sincere is not estab-
lished We entirely acQuit Mr.. Parnell
and the other respondents of in
sincerity in their denunciation of the
Phoenix park murders and we find the fac
smile letter upon which this charge is
chiefly based against Parnell is a forgery.
THAT the respond ents did disseminate
newspapers tending to incite to sediuon
and the commission of other crimes The
respondents did not dir ctly incite any per-
2ns to the commission of crime other than
Intimidation, but did iucite to in imi Il t on.
and the consequence was that crimes and
outrages were committed by the persons
so melted. AS 80 the allegation that the
respondents did nothing to prevent crime
and expressed ne bona fide disapproval of
crime, some of the respondents, in par
ticular Michael Davitt, did express bona
tde dlSapproVal of crime and outrage, but
the respondents did not denounce the
system of intimidation which led to
to crime and outrage but persisted in this
abStention of Accommodation with a knoWl-
edge of its effect. The respondents de-
Tended persons charged with agrarian
crimes and supported their families but it
is not proved that they subscribed to tes-
timonials for or were intimately asso-
ciated with notorious criminals
las to the allegation that the re-
Spondents made payments to compensate
persons who had been injured in the com
mission OF CRIME, we lind that they did
make such payments.
LAS to the allegation that respondents in
vlted the assistance and cooperation of.
and accepted subscriptions OF money from
known advocates of crime and the use of
dynamite, we find that the respondents did
invite the assistance and cooperation and
accept subscriptions of money from Patrick
Ford, known as an advocate of crime and
dynamite; but ii has not been proved that
the respondents knew that the Clal-na
Gael controlled the Land league or was
collecting money fer parliamentary fund.
But 1t has been proved that the respond
ents invited and obtained the assistance
ans cooperation of the physical force party
inSAmerica, including the Clan-na-Gael.
and In order to obtain that assistance alb
STAINED from repudiating or condemning
the action OF that party.
besides those there remain three snaci
fic charges against Parnell personally.
namely: A-That at the time of the Xii
manham negotiations Parneli knew that
Sheridan and Boynton had been organizing
outrages and therefore wished to use them
to put down outrages, not proved.
O.B-That Parnell was intimate with the
leading Invincbies. That he probably
when he was realised on parole in April
1882: and that he recognized the Phoenix
park murders as their handiwork, We
find that there is no foundation for this
charge and that the Invincibles were not a
branch of the Land league
"C-That Parnell, by an opportune re
mittance, enabled f. Byrne to escape from
justice to France We find that Parnel
did not make any remittance to enable
Byrne to escape from Justice
Regarding the two special charges
against Dayitt that he was Fenian and
assisted in the formation of the Land
league with money contributed for the
purpose of outrage and crime so that he
was concerned in and intimate in associa-
ton with the party of violence in America
and was mainly instrumental in bringing
about an alliance between that party and
the Parnellite and home rule party in
America, we find it proved that Davitt was
tenlan and received money from the
skirmishing fund contributed for the pur
pose OF outrage. This was not, however,
for the formation of the Land league it.
self, but for the promotion of agitation
leading up TO 1t. We find also that he was
in such close and intimate association with
the party OF violence in America that he
was the man mainly instrumental
in Bringing about the alliance referred to.
the opening of the report the Judges
~ to the unprecedented character of
the inquiry. The history of the action of
the leaders of the Irish party from 1871 is
recited; the relations are traced that ex
sted between the Land league and Fenians
and Irish Americans. Referring 10 how
cotting, II declares that the instances ad
duced before the commissions proved
that it constituted a system of in
timidation of the most severe and
cruel character. The boycott com Dination
ILLEGAL DOth
means ADOPTED to carry it out. 1t was an
elaborate, al-pervading tyranny, aiming 10
injure the landlords as a class and drive
them out of the country. This action of
the league far exceeds the limits of the
lust force of public opinion and created n
well grounded terror in the minds of those
suffering unJer II. The commission com 5
to the conclusion tdal this was the inten-
tion of those devisinz and carrying out the
sy stem ''ln our judgment the leaders of
tue league thus combining to carry out the
by colt were guilty of criminal conspiracy
We consider this charge established. against /
Parnell, Dillon, Biggar, Sexton, 7. P. |
O'Connor. Matthew Harris, w. O'Brien, |
Z. ID. Sullivan, T M Healy, T. Harrington,
Z. Harrington, A. O'Connor, J. E. Kenny,
w. Redmond, J. E. Redmond, Justin Nc
Carthy, j. O'Connor, S. j. Condor, j. ].
O'Kelly, Cummings, Cox, Patrick Shea, j.
G. Sheehan, A. Leahy. e. Laney. ].
Barrie, G. K. Hanna, Maurice Heaiy, P.
Quinn. Daniel O'Reilly, Henry Campbell,
p. j. Foley, j. J. Clancy, j. f. K. O,Brien.
X. Lawlor, Z. Name, j. Deasy. j. G..
Flynn, j. Jordan, W. ]. Lane. d. Sheehy.
D. Sullivan, G. N. Brown and Michael
Dayjttn
cfnder the charge Of disseminating news
papers tending to incite to crime the re-
poN lays stress upon the fact that Par