Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
Private Charity in heager Doses Is, In the
Meantime, All That Keeps Evicted
Tenants Alive.
LIBERALS NOT HELPING BALFOUR.
Priest Charges Thst Discrimination Is Being Prac.
tsed in Giving oat ths Railrcsd
Relief Wcrk
rBY CABLE TO THE pIsPArcH.l

LONDON, Jan. T.-[Copyrighted. Mr..
William O'Brien has gone to Havre to meet
John Dillon, ard the wearisone conference
business will be resumed. Every we'll
wisher of ireland is anxious to have the
question of ParnelPs retirement settled be-
fore the reassembling of Parliament next
Thursday, in order to avoid the scandalous
sight of two antagonistic Irish parties sitting
and wrangling in the same House. Among
the points still awaiting settlement is that
relating to the disposal OF certain United
States bonds purchased by the late Mr.. Big
gar, as treasurer of the evicted tenants fund.
Previous to the disruption, Parnell had
arranged to hand the bonds to Dillon, who
was then arranging his American tour. But
delyys occurred, and now the bankers, hav-
ing been threatened with lawsuits from both
sides, refuse to part with the bonds to any
body. Much mystery has been maintained
respecting this Paris fund.
Interesting Letters Made Public.
The following correspondence, never previ-
ously published, will show, however, how
matters stood on the eve of the disastrous
divorce action.
7RUE SCRIBE, PARIS, Sept. %. 1890
To Charles Stewart Parnen, III. p, House OF
Commons. London;
DEAR SIR-We are in receipt of your favor
Of yesterday and note its contents The bal
aHce Of the late j. @. BIggar's account with us
amounts to some sc 600 francs, which we will of
course be quite prepared to hand to the gentle
man named after our solicitors have examined
the trust deed and advised us to do so. The
Securities consist of United States bonds, reg
istered in his name, and dividend warrants pay
able to his order. for the transfer of which ap-
plication will have to be made to the United
States Treasury. When provided with usual
documents, we shall be prepared to undertake
the application through the legal advisers Of
our New York house.
We remain, dear sir, very truly yours,
MUNRoE & Co.
This communication did not reach Par
nell's hands for nearly a week, owing to his
absence ftom London But on the Both of
September Dillon received the following
letter;
HOUSE OF COMMONS, Sept. g.
DEAR Mr. DILLoN-I have been requested
by Mr.. Parnell to hand you the enclosed letter
from Messrs. MunrOe & Co., and to inform you
that the bonds being registered, they cannot
turn over the cash except on advice of their
solicitors. Alr. Parnell therefore thinks that
this matter VIII have to be dealt with through
Mr: Biggars trustees and executors. 1 am
yours faithfully, ii. CAMPBELL.
Each Side After the Money.
1t is we'll known that Mr.. Biggar's trustees
and executors are Richard Power, Parnell-
ite, and Patrick Power, now anti ParneIlite.
They talked over matters, and got SO lar as
to nominate John Dillon, J. F. x. O'Brien
and j. Clancy as trustees to receive the
bonds and other securities and cash, valued
at $40, 500, in Messrs. Munroe's hands when
the crash came. Each side is naturally
anxious to obtain the money, but there is
obviously room for compromise.
Meanwhile, the evicted tenants are being
kept alive by charity, supplemented in a
few cases by a small dole from William
O'Brien. To-day the evicted tenants in
distress of Skibbereen and Schulz, County
Cork, were informed by the local leaders
that no money was available for distribu-
ton, as the campaign checks had been dis
honored bv the bankers. Balfour has now
received ESQ, 600 in response to his appeal.
Some Liberals. including Gladstone and
Earl Spencer, have contributed to the fund
on the ground that the Chief SecretaryIhay-
ing pledged his word for the relief of the
distress, it was the duty of the charitable to
overlook the origin and ultimate intention
OF the appeal.
Decline to Help Balfour.
But most Liberals have declined to help
Baiiour in scheme by which Dublin Cas-
tie is to be the universal almoner in Ireland.
Balfour has declared that not single penny
shall be given to able-bodied men, for whom,
be says, his relief railroad will find work,
How that work is being given In some dis
tricts was told to-day by Father O'Connor,
Of Achill, at q meeting of the westport
Board Of Guardians. The reverend gentle
man said:
up to the present time we have had little
or no employment for these poor people.
Sometimes they will 60 ten miles, travelling
all night until daylight in the morning, and
after travelling that distance they are
knocked about and get no work. That is
the way our 1000 able-bodied people, the
most distressed this day under heaven, are
treated, and the few who are employed are
the richest men of the island. They give
work to men who have 20 or 80 cattle
grazing on the grass farms, and not to the
poor men vino have not single four-footed
beast in the world. There are 300 families
starving now, and the clerks on the railway
refuse to tell even the police how many men
they have employed. Sometimes they have
only 90 men employed; sometimes they have
400. They are dismissing them every mIn-
ute, giving them one-quarter day, OF. half
day, sitter travelling 20 miles"
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