Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-03-26
irish LAND BILL
coVgRNNa MEASURE MAkea
lTs APPEARANCE IN THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
BECOMES EFFECTIVE NOV. I

Proposes . Free Grant Of Sixty Nil.
lion Dollars TO Aid Tenants in Pur.
chasing Holdings and Provides for
Raising Additional Funds to Carry
Out Provisions Of the Scheme.
Measure Passes Its First Reading.
London, March 26.-The Irish secre.
tary. Mr.. Wyndham, introduced the
governments long anticipated Irish
land bill In the house of commons dur
ing the day. 1t proposes q free grant
of $50 900 900 for the purposes Of the
bill.
The Irish land bill also provides
that tenants shall pay 3A per cent in
terest to the government; that unten-
anted farms and grazing lands will
be sold to neighboring tenants and
that three commissioners will super.
wise the sales.
The advances to the tenants through
the provisions of the land bill are
limited to $500 in the congested dis.
tricts and $1,000 elsewhere. The bill
will become effective Nov. /. Mr..
Wyndham said $75O.OOO,OOO could safe
ly be advanced on Irish land, but he
thought the scheme would not involve
$4,000 900.
The Irish secretary explained that
while the maximum charge on the
English treasury would not exceed
$l.975.O00 in a single year, the reduc-
tim in tho NJ tho dn, nj fro iOn
OF Ireland would amount to 81 ,25O, 900
House Crowded With Visitors.
The keen interest felt in this new
legislation, which, it is hoped, will
promote peace and cOntentment in Ire
land, was evidenced by the crowded
house.
The peers gallery and the distin-
guished strangers gallery were filed
and there has been no such gathering
Of members of parliament since the
opening of the session.
Mr.. Wyndham, who was heartily
cheered when he arose to speak, an
nounced at the outset that the govern.
ment thought cash aid was necessary
for the fulfillment of the proposed
scheme. but 1t attached greater impor-
tance to the credit operation than to
the cash operation. He then unfolded
the scheme which provides for ad-
vances of money for the purchase of
land by the tenants. The advances
will be in the shape of cash and not of
stock. but in order to enable the cash
to be raised new stock is to be float
ed. 1t will be called guaranteed 2A
per cent stock" and will be unredeem.
able for thirty years.
Mr. Wvrdhoun do,htod ~ eSn0 nnn :
900 Of the stock would be needed. 1t
will be issued at the rate OF $4,000, 900
yearly for the first three years and
afterwards possibly in larger sums.
Free Grant Of s6o,0oo.0oo.
In addition to this the government
proposed a free grant OF $60,O00,000
to be raised by additions to the stock,
the interest and sinking fund of
which will be borne by the treasury.
and the maximum annual charge Of
which will not exceed $l,95O,OO0.
Against this charge on the British
treasury the Irish government pro-
poses forthwith to commence reduc-
tions in the cost of administration
amounting to $l,250,000 per annVm
forever.
Proceeding Mr. Wyndham dealt with
the points of the bill which contain a
bewildering mass of figures showing
how advances would be made and the
terms of repayment, but it seems in
the main to be on the lines laid down
by the land conference report and will
be satisfactory to the landlords and
tenants. In the course of his speech,
which was puncfuated by cheers, Mr..
Wyndham said the landlords Of Ire.
hntn r,,inn 6n0 nj q "
and that the tenants were being ruined
morally and the taxpayers Of England
were paying 100000 per annum to
the land commission and $7,OOO.000 to
the Irish police, which largely was
needed to deal with illegalities arising
from the land question.
rs 1t remarkable under these cir
cumstances?" asked the Irish secre.
tary. III the landlords and tenants
come together?"
Present Conditions Unbearable.
Speaking of present conditions in
Ireland Mr.. Wyndham instanccd one
village In which a landlord was in the
workhOuse during the greater part OF
the year, while the tenants livei ult5s
conditions worse than that Of The kef-
frs of Africa. What the government
proposed to do to remedy tnis state a
affairs was, briefly. while withdrawing
no existing rights, it conte.ap.als !
that the purchase Of land in the future
should proceed by the sale Of estates,
under three commissioners, Michael
Finucane. under secretary in the
statistical department; Frederick
Brent and w. F. Bayley. The con-
missioners, who will be known as eS-
tate commissioners, will be under IN
general control of the lord lieutenant
of Ireland. They are empowered TO
decide what constitutes an estate
which does not necessarily mean the
entire property owned by the vendor.
rs considerable proportion thereof