The record-union., 1891-03-08
IRISH TROUBLES.
Dispute Between Factions Over the
Eyicted Tenants Fund.
BOTH SIDES SOUGHT TO GAIN AN
ADVANTAGE.
McCai'thy's Organ Says Parnell's APP
peal to the United States is for the
Purpose of Bringing Grist to the
Parnellfte Mill ,'-ParnelI Threatens
to Force All Sccedcrs Out of Par
Special to the SUNDAY UNION.

New YORK, March IA cablegram
from Dublin gives for the first time the
recent letters which passed between Par
nell and Justin Mccarthy. The CORE
spondence opens by letter from John
Dillon asking both Parnell and McCar-
thy to make some adequate arrangements
for the relief of the evicted tenants in
Ireland during the Imprisonment of Dill
Ion and O'Brien. This interchange of
letters grew out of a resolution passed by
the Mccarthy section at one of its meet
ings few weeks ago favoring the trans
ference of the funds held in Paris to the
credit of the Irish party to the Council OF
the Tenants Defense Association in Ire
land. The correspondence runs from
February 18th to March 9th, but sheds no
new light on the secret workings of those
who controlled the distribution of funds
for the evicted tenants. Both Parnell and
Mccarthy sought to gain advantage, but
at the end they seemed to be as far from
any satisfactory arrangement for the con-
troll of the funds as ever.
Mccarthy offered to agree to an ar
rangement by which sum necessary for
the immediate wants of the evicted ten
ants could be released. In the conclud-
ing letter Parnell does not appear to have
agreed to McCarthy's proposition. He
states that until some definite plan in re-
gard to the funds is agreed upon there are
sufficient funds in hand to render the
sale OF any securities deposited in Paris
unnecessary. He expresses the hone
that Mccarthy will soon hold a consulta-
ton with his colleagues in regard to the
latter, and that permanent plan for the
release of the funds will be agreed upon.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE PARNELLITE
FUND.
DUBLIN, March THE Freeman's s
Journal to-day publishes the first list for
the Parnen leadership fund, the total
showing the subscriptions in one day to
be $3.50, and points with pride to the re-
sponse made in few hours by its sub
scribers.
NEW MCARTHYTTE ORGAN.
DUBLIN, March THE first number
OF the National Press, the new daily
paper devoted to the interests of the Nc
Carthy faction Of the Irish Parliamentary
party, was issued to-day. In it's leading
editorial the paper announces that it viii
recommend the continuation of the policy
for years past pursued, as it has resulted
In united Irish party. Further on the
new paper characterizes the object of Par
nelPs appeal to the United States as not
being for the aid of evicted tenants. but
to bring grist to the Parnellite mill.
PARNELL'S THREAT.
DUBLIN, March 7.--While speaking at
Drogheda Station to-day, Parnell vehem-
emily threatened to drive the seceders
from his ranks out of Parliament and out
OF the country.
HISTORY OF THE SPLIT.
LONDON, March 7.-Yesterday's Free
mans Journal contained a history of the
split in the Irish party from the pen of ].
G. Redmond. He holds that in the brief
speeches of Mccarthy and Healey at
the Leinster Hall meetings, showing that
with a knowledge of Parnelrs conduct
and knowing also that he did not intend
TO make any defense in the O'Shea case.
these gentlemen gave him their enthusi-
aStic support.
Redmond justifies Parnelps revelation
of the Hawarden negotiations, and saws
that if Dillon and O'Brien had been i'm
England in November there would have
been no split. He, of course. commends
them for having nothing to do with the
McCarthyites.
The struggle between the two groups of
irish members goes on apace. The anti
Parnellites, however, do not seem to meet
with much success. At any rate. they
are doing little, seeming to wait for help
which, however, never comes. Their
missions to Australia and America are
only one of many delegations, and, in
fact, O'Connor's return to England seems
to indicate that the McCarthyites have
lost even his support. When he arrives
in England he will have to declare to
which sect he belongs.