St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-05
ERIN'S LAND LAWS.
Morley Introduces a Bill for
the Amendment of
Them.
MAKES MANY CONCESSIONS
And Admits the Land Cues
ton Is the Cause Of Ire
lands Troubles.
MAKES MANY CONCESSIONS
GIVES AMPLE RECOMPENSE
To Tenants for improvements
Bill Passes the First
Reading.

LONDON, March 4.-Replying TO
Sir George Baden-Powell in the
house of commons today, Sydney
Buxton said that owing to a defect
in the act of the Canadian parlia-
ment confirming the treaty defining
the commercial relations between
France and Canada, it was yet I'M
possible to exchange its notifications.
1t would be amended so soon as the
Canadian parliament meets.
sohn Morley introduced the new
Irish land bill. In doing so he said
he accepted the declaration of Union
list belief made by the member for
South Tyrone, Thomas Wallace Rus
sell. that the land question was at
the bottom of the disturbance and
ill-feeling in Ireland, and that par
lament was competent to make such
laws as the condition of Ireland re
quired.
The first time the principle that a
tenant had a right or interest of
property in his holding, as embodied
in an act of parliament, was in the
act of 1870. The act of 1881 granted
the further right to devise or sell
the tenancy whenever the tenant
liked;
FIXED A FAIR RENT
in court and enabled him to renew
his lease from time to time. These
acts were the charter of the Irish
tenants rights and privileges. The
reasons for asking the house of COM
mons to amend the acts was now
that in October next the tenants
could have their rents renewed for
fourteen years. 1t was desirable
therefore, to make the circumstan-
ces of these renewals as easy as pos
sible.
Mr.. Morley defended the report of
the recent land committee, ridiculing
the idea that it was one-sided or is,
sued by a packed majority.
In explaining the present bill, Mr.
Morley said that at the foundation
of the government proposals was
q broad principle of social policy to-
wards Ireland. A general rule of
protecting the tenant in ownership
if improvements were made was alb
solutely indispensable in Ireland, oW-
ing to the decision of the Irish courts
which upset the intentions of parlia-
ment. The government now proposed
that all the improvements on a
building should be presumed to have
been done by the tenant unless the
contrary was proved. The bill di-
rected the courts to
-
GIVE AMPLE COMPENSATION
and security to a tenant for i'm
proVementS, and it also proposed to
amend the act of 1870 SO as to make
1t perform it's functions in the way
1t was designed it should Conse-
quently itwOuld be modified in order
to prevent the undoubted intention
of parliament being frustrated. The
compensation to be paid to a tenant
would be in money or in moneys
worth. 1t was. also proposed by this
measure that holdings should be
subject to statutory conditions until
the new rents were fixed and the
statutory conditions thereby revised.
1t also makes the term of holdings
ten instead Of fifteen years, at the
end of which time the rents are TO
be revised.
In regard to the landlords right Of
presumption the tenant was to be al
lowed the free sale of his interest
but before selling he had to give
cash to the landlord, who might pur-
chase the tenancy for the sum agreed
upon When the court fixed a fair
rent the landlord might demand that
the court specify the value of the