The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-03-08
The NEW IRISH LAND BILL.
Introduced in the House Of Com
mons by Lord Merely.
CREDITIaPROYEAENT TO TENANTS.
All Improvements on Holding should
BE Presum. ii "a Have Been Done by
Tenants Unless Disproven.

LONDON. March EN- the houss Of
commons John Morley introduced the
new Irish land bill and in doing so he
said he accepted the declaration of be.
lief made by Thomas Wallace Russell
that the land question was at the bot
tom of the disturbance and Ill feeling in
Ireland, and that parliament was com.
petent to make such laws as the condi.
ton of Ireland required. The reasons
for asking the house Of commons to
amend the acts now was that in 0cto.
Der next the tenants could have their
rents renewed for IL years. Tt was de.
sirable, therefore. to make the circum-
stances of these renewals as easy as pos.
sible Mr. Morley defended the report
Of the recent land committee, ridiculing
the idea it was one sided or issued by a
packed majority.
In explaining the present bill Mr.. Nor
ley said that at the foundation Of the
government proposals was broad social
principle towards land. A general rule
Of protecting the tenant in ownership,
If Improvements were made, was abso-
lutely indispensable in Ireland owing to
the decisions Of the Irish courts, which
upset the intention of parliament, and
the government now proposes all the
improvements On a holding should be
presumed to have been done by the
tenant unless the contrary was proven.
This provision in the bill compels the
courts to give compensatiOns and secur-
ity for improvements to the tenants,
and it also proposes to amend the act of
1870 SO as to make it perform it's func-
tons in the way it was designed it
should. Consequently it should be
modified in a way to prevent the IN
doubted intention of parliament being
frustrated. The compensation to be
paid to tenant would be in money or
in moneys worth.
1t was also proposed by this measure
that holdings should be subject to statu-
tory conditions until the new rents
were fixed and the statutory conditions
thereby revived. It also makes the
terms Of holdings 10 instead of Is years,
at the end of which time the rents are
to be revised. In regard to the land
lords right of presumption the tenant
was to be allowed the free sale Of his in
terests, but before selling he had to
give cash TO the landlord who might
purchase the tenancy for the sum agreed
upon. When the court fixed a fair rent
the Ian lord might demand that the
court s)ecify the value of the holding in
case the tenant wishes to sell and the
landlord wishes to buy. Where a ten
ant was in occupancy as a care taker for
five years and had discharged all the OBJ
legations incidental to the holding he
should at the end Of the period be
deemed to be the present tenant again
with all former rights Of occupancy.
It was further proposed by the bill
that all arrears Of rent might be recOv-
cred within the next two years. After
then the landlord would be able to re-
cover two years arrears only.
Mr. Morley concluded a speech last
ing two hours with a final proposal to.
re-enact section Is Of the act Of 1891 with
slight notifications in order to meet the
question of evicted tenants, He then
made a fervent appeal to the house to
carefully consider the BILL Upon the
conclusion of his address. the Irish land
bill passed its first reading without
division being taken,