Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-02-14
PARNELL'S JUDGES.
Substance of the Report on The
Times Charges.
SAMPLE OF BRITISH ARR AND ARR.


Leaders Declared Baseless or Not Prov
an, but Indirect Indictment to Crime,
Intimidation and Boycotting Laid at
Their Doors-Le Caron's Word Taken
Before ParnelPs-views of the London
Press on the Judgment.
LONDON, Jan. l4-The report of the Par
nell special commission presented, to parlia-
ment yesterday, finds that the respondent
members of the house of commons were not
members of conspiracy to establish the alb
solute independence of ireland, but that
some of them, together with Michael Da-
witt, joined the Land league with the inten-
ton to accomplish by its means the independ-
ence of Ireland as a separate nation. The
commission entirely acquits Parnell and the
other accused members of insincerity in their
denun ciation of the Phoenix park murders,
and finds that the fac-simile letteI published
in The Times, upon which the charge was
chiefly BASED as against Parnell, was for
gerry.
They Ineited Intimidation.
The respondents, the report continues, did
not directly incite crime, except intimida-
ton, which they did incite, with the result
that crimes and outrages were committed
by those melted. The commission also finds
that the respondents defended agragrian
prisoners, but the charge was not proved
| that they were intimate with notorious Grim
inals or that they helped such persons to es-
cape justice. II further finds that the re-
| spondents invited the cooperation of and ac-
! cepted subscriptions from Patrick Ford, an
advocate of crime in the use of dynamite,
| but it is not proved that they were aware
that the Clan-na-G controlled the Land
league or was collecting money for the par
| liamentary fund
| Didn't Repudiate Physical Violence.
| tits proved, however, that the respondents
accepted the assistancesof the physical force
party in America, and that in order to OBJ
tain that assistance abstained from repudiat-
ing or condemning the action of that party.
The Charges Against Parnen.
In regard to the specific charges against
| Parnell, the report says the charge that at
the time of the Klmainham negotiations
Parnell knew that Sheridan and Boynton
were organizing outrages is not proved; nor
| is there any foundation for the allegations
that he was intimate with Invincibles, knew
their plans, or recognized the Phoenix park
murders as their handiwork. The commits
sion also fails to find that Parnell sent Byrne
a remittance TO enable him to escape to
| France.
| Judgment in Davitt's Case.
The judges find that Davitt was Feniap,
and that he received money from the
diminishing fund" for outrages, which
money was not for the formation of the
league, but for the promotion of the agita-
ton leading up to it. Davitt was mainly
instrumental in bringing about the alliance
of the party of violence in America with
the Parnell party in America
The report reviews the history of the
league and declares that the leaders com
bined to injure the landlords and drive them
ont of the country by means Of the system
of boycotting, thereby being guilty of Grim
inal conspiracy.
LeCaron Against Psrneu.
| Touching the contradictory evidence OF
LeCaron and Parnell over their interviews
in the corridor OF the house of commons in
1881, the commission holds that the balance
of probability was in favor of the accuracy
of LeCaron 1t was clear that LeCaror
wrote to Dewey to come to Europe to sex
Parnell and Egan. Parnell denies that he
told LeCaron that he had long ceased to be
lieve in anything but the force of arms as
relief for ireland, basing his denial on tn,
fact that he never thought so. 1t is not i'm
possible that in conversing with supposed
revolutionist Parnell expressed himself il
such a manner as TO leave the impression
that he agreed with those who favored revo
luton.
The American Propaganda.
The American conventions are quoted a.
proving the identity If the sympathy snC
sentiments of the Irish leaguers with TIA,
physical force party. The mass Of evidenc,
proved that the league in America since 1855
has been directed by the Clan-na- Gael, anC
been actively engaged in promoting the US,
of dynamite for the destruction of life anC
property in England 1t is not proved, how
ever, that Parnell knew the position of tn,
| Clan-na-Gael