The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
Will SHE GET any OF IT7.
Mrs Charles Stewart Parnen Begins
Suit to Secure Che Paris
Fund.
THE EvlCTED TENANTS SUFFER.
Cannot Get Any Money, and if She
Succeeds They Will Lose
$l77,5O0.


Succeeds They Will Lose
$l77,500.
Of the $l77,5OO which the Messrs,
Monroe admit holding in their hank
vaults to the credit Of Mrs. Parnell,
Biggar, and Mccarthy as trustees.
every cent came from the pockets of
men and women OF Irish blood in Amer
lea. It has seemed of first Importance
to find out all about this big sum of
monev and tell them how the question
of its use now stands. 1t will be inter.
esting news to them to begin with that
Mrs. Parnell. from her home in Brigh-
ton, has instructed Kinnersly Hall, an
English lawyer in Paris, who is also
counsel to the British embassy. to claim
the whole amount as her private prop
ertY, Such a claim has been formally
made in her name. The nationalist
party is represented by Mr.. Mccarthy,
who has lodged claim to the money,
and has brought friendly suit agaiast
the Monroe's for its recovery. The first
question is does English law apply to-
the goods of English subjects in
France? II this is decided affirmativelY
Mr.. McC Carthy, as the surviving trustee,
would come into control of the whole
sum If it is decided that French law
governs then Mrs. Parnell would have
TO prove that the fund was private
property, in which case Mr.. Mccarthy,
and Mr. Biggar's executors, and she
would get third each, but it is admit
tedly not private property. The cues
tion then IS, who is the proprietor?
This, it is to be feared, will take Fren ch
courts not less than two vesrs to an
swer. The chief difficulty is that since
the French revolution French law has
not recognized trusts.
TERMS OF TIE TRUsTEEsHIP.
The terms of the trusteeship were
that the money could only be drawn by
two of the three trustees, of which Mr..
Parnell should always be one. After
Mr.. Biggar's death Mr.. Parnell doggedly
refused to allow the party to appoint a
trustee in his dead mates place. The
party continually urged him to assist IN
or any way to permit regularization
of the state of affairs at the Monroes.
He would never consent. The fund is
all IN American railway bonds, with
one possible exception. These seem
excellant securities. They, however,
are all payable to bearer. and in the alb
sence Of registered record more un
desirable condition for the fund TO be
in could not be easily imagined. Par
ties to the patriotic suit, however. en-
tertain no misaivings as to the safety of
the funds or the ultimate success of
their efforts to reclaim it for the relief
of evicted tenants. In the remote con-
tingency of failure in the French courts
it will be open to them to bring
friendly suit against the Monroes in
New York or Boston, where they have
branch houses.
This statement Of existing facts
ought to make it clear that any further
sympathy with Mrs Parnell from the
IrisE people will be grossly and gro
tesquely misapplied. She never in her
life uttered a word to show thatshe had
the slightest kindly feeling toward the
Irish people or the irish cause, Evi-
dences of a contrary sentiment are scat
tered through her letters and recorded
remarks. Her action in the matter of
the fund is purely Of a asplteful character.
She IS an enormously wealthy woman
who keeps some thousand OF evtcted
tenants on short commons during the
coming winter not because she needs
the money herself. but in order to do as
much harm as she can to the Irish party.
LITTLE MONEY IN SIGHT.