The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-11
BRITISH GOLD FOR ERIN.
TIE LAND BILL DEBATED IN THE
ROUSE OF COMMONS.

Labouchere Opposes the Issue Of
Guaranteed Land Stock - he Also
Opposes the General Proposition on
the Ground of Class Legislation
Cloture Carried on Balfour's Motion,
CORK, April I0.-Henry Campbell, mem
Der of parliament for South Fermnagh,
ireland. and private secretary to Mr.. Par
neil, has entered an action for libel against
Mrs. Nagle, proprietor Of the Cork Herald,
and Alderman John Hooper of this city.
lately editor of that paper, charging them
with iuputing through the columns OF the
Cork Herald that he (CampbelD procured
houses for the meetings of Mr.. Parnen aud
Mrs. O'Shea.
THE DEBATE ON THE LAND BILL.
LONDON, April 10.-The House of Com
mons to-day, in committee on the Irish land
bill, on the clause proposing that advances
of money be made by the issue OF guaranteed
land stock equal in nominal amount to the
advance, Henry Labouchere, in moving
to omit the word guaranteed" generally
condemned the bill Mr.. Labouchere held
that 1t was absurd to suppose that the feel
ing now existing against rents would
diminish when England was sub
stituted for the Irish landlord. Rent
would then soon be called land tax,
and then would be termed a tribute to an
alien government. There would be q
political strike against rents 1t would be
impossible to carry out the plan of whole
sale eviction, for, even if the people are
evicted from their holdings, nobody would
take land from which former tenants had
been evioted by the government There~
fore, practically, the only hope Of the re-
payment Of the guaranteed land stock
would depend upon the good will Of the
tenants.
OTHER CLASSES IN NEED OF HELP.
Continuing. Mr.. Labouchere said in sub
stance that, allowing that $50 ,000,0 900 would
amply cover the land purchase, why ought
state aid co be- restricted to agricultural
There we're plenty of people outside of the
agricultural classes who would very much
like to obtain aid from the state upon terms
similar to those upon which it was proposed
to grant aid to the Irish agricultu lists
Many manufacturers, Mr.. Laboucntre
claimed, would like to get a
loan of capital at the rate Of 2s4
per cent, if they were allowed forty-nlne
years in which to repay such loan. The
Irish members who supported the present
Irish land bill, said Mr.. Labouchere, would
be selling their birth right. If the land be-
came mortgsged to England such state of
affairs would seriously interfere with the
prospects for home rule, for while England
might be willing to give Ireland the man
agemenu of her own affairs the English
people could not do so, as there would be
mortgages upon all the land in the country.
BALFoUR TAKES THE FLOOR.
Secretary Balfour compared the land
| scheme brought forward by Mr.. Gladstone
In 1887 with the land bill now brought for
ward by the government. The first measure
| mentioned by Mr.. Gladstone, said Secretary
| BalfouP, was essentially insecure, while the
| pr. sent measure was accompanied by ma.
chiuery which would guarantees
that the British taxpayer would
be recouped for his outlay.
Mr.. Labouchere's prospect of wholesale
reputation Of rent, added Secretary Bal
four, was almost an impossibility. 1t was
not very easy to get up a universal con-
spiracy of that kind Whatever honorable
members might think of the present land
bill as a solution of the Irish land question,
| they must admit the financial soundness of
| the plan.
Mr.. Gladstone said that he felt that he
was precluded from voting for any pro-
posal which would pledge the British
credit. The understanding accepted
throughout the country at the last general
election was that British credit should not
be pledged In any such plan.
Secretary Balfour replied to this asser-
| tion from Mr.. Gladstone by retortihg that
Mr.. Gladstone's land bill Of 1886 was re-
jected not because it pledged British credit
| but because the country believed that
British credit was imperiled by that
measure.
Timothy, Healy, Arthur OConnor and
| others spoke upon the same subject, when
| Secretary Balfour moved cloture. which
was carried by vote of 216 to IT'S.
Mr.. Labouchere's motion to omit the word
Guaranteed" from the phrase "By the
| issue of guaranteed land stock" was rejected
| by vote of 232 to 1873.
| RUSHING THE BILL.
The COVE rnment, having SUI ceeded in
rushing the Irish land bill through the first
stages when the Irish party were fighting
on the question of leadership, show deter
mination to follow a similar policy with the
bill in committee. Secretary Balfour's
&C ion in using the weapon of cloture tc
abridge the debate on the first clause
| is as tYrannous an application OF
the "force majeurn as the present
government have given in dealing with
parliament. The want of unity among the
| liberals on several important points of the
bill and the diversity Of opinion among the
Irish members add nightly to the govern
| ment's power to crush attempts at destruc-
tive criticism Of the details Of the measure.
If cloture be literally applied, as Secretary
| Balf0ur's action indicated it will, the con
servatives' boast that the business Of the
session will be completed at the end OF
June will be realized.
| GLADSTONE HOLDS A CONFERANCE.
Mr.. Gladstone held conference to- day
with several McCarthyites on the line of
the opposition, and the result OF the meeting
promises TO restore concerted action among
the opposition instead OF every man fighting
on his individual responsibility. The ad-
hesion Of the Parnellite majority to the
leading amendments proposed by the other
sections of the opposition will further contri
butte to the fighting power of the liberals.
Summed up, the liberal amendments upon
which the struggle will proceed for several
weeks to come, include opp sition to the use
of local funds as guarantees for loans and
| objection TO the tenants insurance fund to
the proposal to levy the amount of any de-
ficiency on the county rates, and to the ex-
clusion Of grazing farms from the operation
of the measure. None of these amendments
are acceptable to the government, and,
after much talk each viii be defeated in
turn. The Irish landlords convention sent
a strong committee to keep the ministers
firm to the landlord interests until the bill
reaches the haven of the House Of Lords.
Mr. Shaw is unwilling to re,enter parlia-
ment even with a chance of resuming the
leadership Of the anti-Parnellites. The strug-
gle is too much embittered to suit Mr. Shaw.
PARNELL AND THE PRIESTS.
The persistent assertions Of the Parnell-
ties that the bishops never declared against
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