Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-30
O'BRIEN AND GILL
Induced to Break a Long Silence
and Talk to a Reporter.
Both Hopeful OF an Amicable Settle
ment OF Irish Differences-The
Funds for Evicted Tenants.
Scotch Strikers Rave the Public's Sympathy
Blu. VIII Lose the s.rike-Gladstone's
Eighty First Birthday.
O'Brien Interviewed.

PARIS, Dec. 29.-From the moment he
set foot on French soil on his return from
the United States. William O'Brien, NJ.
P, the man on whom the attention Of
all who are interested in irish
affairs is now concentrated, has been
literally besieged by reporters and news
paper correspondents. To oil these gen.
tlemen o 'Brien has, up to the present,
been obliged to return the re ply that he
was very sorry, but he had nothing to
soy. To-day O'Brien determined to
break his long-msintained silence, and
he kindly accorded the Associated Press
correspondent an interview. The cor
respondent met o. Bren this morning at
the residence of NJ. Raffslovitch, his
father-In-law. In company with Gill,
O'Brien was busiIy at work in a spacious
library, reading pile of mail matter,
and evidently preparing to direct his at
tention upon the heap of newspaper
clippings. O'Brien, it must be ad-
mitted, shows traces of great mental
and physical strains. which have re-
Gently been put upon him. In spits OF
this, however, his manner while receiv-
ing and speaking with the correspondents
was cheerful aud hopeful in the extreme.
rs suOHcu hO eiSu Oh DlLttrueSS wills
speaking of the trials that the cause of
Ireland has recently been subjected to.
81 en- afraid that I have very little to
say to our friends in America as yet,'
said O'Brien as the Associated press
correspondent made the object of his
visit known 70 him. "I am sure that
they have sufficient confidence in US to
realize that we know hat we are doing,
and that we cannot take the world into
our confidence at present. At this juno
ture in Irish affairs they will also admit
that our lips must remain virtually
closed, but when the proper time ar
rIves I and the rest of our friends here
will resdlIy give all the Information pos
s!Oie as to the state of Irish affairs, and
l hope that the time will very soon come
when we shall be able to talk freely
O'Brien was asked concerning the fu-
ture policy of his newspaper, whether he
intended to confer with Parnell to-day,
and if, as reported, the friends of tho
Irish party held by Monroe in Paris were
II the hands of the supreme council of
the National league. O'Brien declined
to answer the question. "Now,'' con-
tinued the correspondent. "sbout the
funds subscribed in the United States
during your recent visit to that country,
who will have control of them?''
At this point of the interview o 'Brien
evidentally lreoonsidered his determine
ton not to unseal his lips, for he said,
uttering each phrase with deliberation
and carefully weighing each word while
the correspondent wrote them down.
GAN rumors about the dispute for the
fund proceeds from enemies of the Irish
cause. No man on either side in the
int ir hn -, h
smallest fear that there will be any mis-
direction of the national fund. The fund
here in Paris was subscribed for general
political purposes, and remains in sus-
penso, pending a settlement of the diff
ferences in the party. As to the Ameri-
can funds just subscribed, no differences
can arise. They, Dy mutual agreement,
will be forwarded as originally intended
to the two treasurers originally selected
MIR. Webb, NJ. P, and DR.. Kenny,
Nj. P. By them the funds will be ex-
pended solely for the purposes they were
subscrIbed-for the support of evicted
tenants this mouth. Grants have al
ready been arranged for in the friend
Hest manner possible between represent
tatives of both sections of the party, and
they will go to the evioted tenants for
whose benefit they were subscribed.
The subscriptions are entirely outside of
or above any differences in the party.
Not the slightest difficulty can arise as to
q location of the money forwarded from
the United States for the benefit of
evicted tenants.
The above statement in regard to
funds was read by the Associated Press
to O'Brien in the hearing
of Gill, after which the former said,
''That Is all right, l wanted to be sure
that every word was correct, for in these
times every word means 80 much. Give
that message to the United States