Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-14
FOREIGN intelligence
Report Of the Parnell Commis.
sion 10 Parliament.
Leidsfs Of League ars Reported Guilty
Of Criminal Conspiracy.
Long List OF Findings by the Three
Judgss on the Commission.

LONDON, Feb. lS.-The report Of the
Parnell Commission dated today. Was sieued
BY oil three judges, 1t gives the details
and mode Of procedure adopted by the
| Court and recites the charges, dividing
them into nine catrgories. The greatesS
| interest centres in the final conclusions, A.
| follows:
| Serntim drss-ws find the respondents.
members Of Parliament. were not members
| Of the onspirscy having for an object the
absolute independence Of ireland; We nni
some OF them. together with Davitt, estab-
lishsd and joined the land league organixa.
| ton. with the intention By its meaus TO
| bring about the absolute independence Of
| lrelat d - separate nation. The nance
Of these respondents are Michael Dsvitt.
N. Harris. John Dillon, William O'Brieu,
W. Redmond, J. o'Connor, jose ah Con.
don and J. J. O'keliy,
Sscon We hpd the rcs spondents did
enter into . eonsp racy BY = system of CO.
ere on aud in,im istion t. promote sgrarian
| agitation aga ns' the pa, ment OF asricul-
turai rents Tor The purpose Of impoverish-
ing and vxpelling from the country Irish
ltLdlords, H, led the English garrison.
Third-We fnd the charge that when
they thought II polite to denounce certain
crimes in pubic t.iey afterwards led their
supporters to believe such d,nunciAtion as
not sincere IL not established We entirely
acqu,t Parneli Ard other respondents Of the
charge OF insineereiy in their deaunciatiou
Of PhGrix Park murder; we hnd fac
simile letter upon ~hi h these rhars . are
chiefly based as asainst Psrnell = forgery.
Four,h-We hnd the respondents did
ii-semina'e the Irish Worli and other
swsp ,pers tending TO incite sedilion and
he commission of other crimes.
F,fth-We hnd the respond, nts did net
directly inc'te any persons 10 commission
Of crime other than Intimidation. but they
did incite to L. timidation, aud the conse-
Quence of that Increment was crimes and
outrases committed by persons 80 inciled;
we a. II has not been proved that the 70
spoud n's made pay mcnts for the purpose
Il melting persons TO commit crime,
Sixth-We hud AS to the allegation. that
the respond, nts did nothing tn prevent
crime and expressed no bona fde disap-
proval OF crime, III At so ne ot the rr.p,n
dents, in part cular Micha-l Da,iu, did
express bona taie disapproval of crime and
outrage; but the respondents did not de-
nOunce The system OF intni alton which
I'D to the commission Of crime aud outrage,
and persisted in thi, sbs,enuon of denun-
Seventh-We find the respondents did
defend persons charged with agrsriau
crimes, and supported their families, hut il
has not been proved that ihey subscribed to
Testimonials for or intimately associated
with notorious criminals, or they made pay
menis to procure the escape of such cIimi.
nails from justice
EiRhIh-We And. as to the allegation
that the respond nts made pa, menrs to
compensate persous il jurcd In the commis.
sion of crime. they did make such pay
ments.
N'nih-As to the allegation that the re-
spondents invited the assistance aud co.
operation Of, and accepted sub-criptons
from. knnwp sdsnrstrs of crime aud the
use Of dy Mantle, We n sd that the respond
ents did invite the assistance ami co opera
tion of, and accept subscriptions from Pat.
rick Ford, known as an advocate of crime
and the use of dy Mantle. II was not proved
that the respondents knew the Clan. ma
Gael controlled the Lard League or vas
collecting money for the Parliamen entary
fund, but IL has been proved that tn. re-
spoDdents invited and Obtained the assist
ance and co operation of the Ply .ical Force
party in America, including the Clan-na-
Gael, and in order to obtain that assistance
Abstained from rel udiatlng or condemning
the action of that party. Besides these,
there remain three distinct charges againat
Parnell: (a) AT the time of the k,ImAin-
ham pegotia ions Parnell knew that sheri-
dan and Boyton bad been organizing out
RACES. and wished to use them to put down
oulTaRes. We find this charge not proved.
o. Parnell was intimate with the lead
ing Invinciblss; he probably learned from
- hal bpV hon
released on parole in April. 1882, aud he
recognized the Pb9nix Park murders a.
'heir handiwork. We fnd no foundation
for Ibis charge an the Invi cibles are not
q branch Of the Land League.
&c PsrDell January 23, 1883, by op-
perfume remittance, enabled +. Byrne to
escape from justi :e to France. We find
Psrnell did not make any remittance to
enable Bryne to escape from justice.
Regarding the special charges against
Davit we Ind it Was proved that Davitt
~as = Fenian and received m jney from
the diminishing fund contributed for the
purpose OF the outrage. 1t had been shown
DAviI; returned 'he money from his own
resources. We find that ne, in such close
and intimate associat on With the party Of
violence in America was the man mainly
instrumental IN bringing about sn alliance
between that party aud the Psrneliite and
he home rule party in America 10
he Idvment of the judges the leader, Of
the i.sgue combined To carry out boycott,
aud Ar. guilty Uf CRIMINAL conspi scy.
We consider this charge established
ga nst Parnell, Dillon, Blggsr, S.I'on. T.
Oro,n'r, Matew Harms, W. O'Brien.
{ ID sullivan, + NJ. Heel. T. Harring-
on. Harrington. A O'Connor. J. 4.
Kenny, W. Redmond. J 4 Redmond,
Justin McCsrty. J. O'Connor. r. J Con-
ion. J j. okeliy. Cummings, Cox, Pat
rick O'H.a, j ID. Sheeban. l. Leaby. Z.
l.-amy, J. Barry, c. X Tanner. M2,,ice
tiealy, r. Qinn, Dane Crilly, Henry
Campbell, Z Foley. J Clancy. j. Y.
X. O'B,ien. X Lsior, r. Name. j ID ssy,
J G. Flynn, jordan. W j. Lane. ID.
shelly. ID. Sullivan. g N. Burn, Michael
| Davitt. The report lss, STRESS up,n the
fsct thst Pa nell did not produce q report
Of any speech yh-rein he denounced The
use Of dyuamit.. also no denUnciation by
PArneli Of the sciion Of the yby scai force
party in ireland or America gwen IN the
rvidence. PArneiI admitted he wa, unable
10 say he had, BY sny speech or acton,
found any fault With the Fenian orxaniza-
non. The statistics strongly crrobprste
the statement that The outragss followed
he establishment of . land i.agie, and
comparative statistics .hoSed the dominant
cause Of crime was ,he league agitation.