The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-18
IRISH CONVENTION CLOSES
PASSAGE OF LAND BILL BY PAR LAMENT ASSURED.
MT. Redmond Makes Important state
 ment That ,he Landlords svili Accept the Amendments at tho Joint Con- ferenco-Home Rule Fight Not to be Abandoned. @s@s n x V

feronco-Home Rule Fight Not to be Abandoned.
 Dublin, April 17.--The Irish national
 convention concluded this evening. In two days 1t got through a large amount
 of controversial work and emerged, to
 quote T. P. o'Connor, '.scathless and
 honored from test which the whole
 world was watching. It was not only shaping the destinies of Ireland, but it Iheld in it's hand the fate of the power full British ministry.s. 4,sss . | John Redmond, replying to an entIlu- siastic vote If thanks for his chair manship, declared that the convention was a credit in every particular to Ire land. Ee. 5ss,s.5t In statement MT. Redmond makes the important announcement that the
 amendments adopted by the convention will be accepted at the Joint conference
 at which Lord Dunraven, Lord Mayo, Captain Shave Taylor, John Redmond,
 William O'Brien and T. w. Russell will
 meet. This practically insures the pass age of the Irish land bill.4 The dele-
 gates returned to their homes tonight in a happy frame of mind, echoing John Redmonds parting words. May the God of our fathers once again visit this land with the peace and plenty that are her due." E 1$s..a2.sss.s...s%| During the morning session John Redmond. the chairman, in view of a misunderstanding in the case of certain
 English papers, introduced a strong home rule resolution, declaring that the Irish nation would never be satisfied
 until 1t obtained full measure of self
 government. NO substitute said MT
 Redmond, "can or will be accepted..' Michael Davitt briefly seconded the
 resolution, saying that Irishmen would be neglecting their sacred duty to the cause if they did not send such mes- l sage to their race throughout the world. >. .s.l
 1 Mir. Redmond's resolution was carried 1 by exclamation. S%-
 l A resolution was also passed demand ing the immediate release of Colonel Lynch and MT. Kilbride, a former mem-
 Der of parliament, and Major Jameson
 and Jasper Fully, members of parlia-
 ment, were read out of the party, by a
 summary resolution. for. "dereliction of
 Irish league" .s.y
 With few dissentients motion was
 passed urging Thomas Sexton to return l to parliament. Mr. Redmond paid a
 tribute to MT. Sexton. He said he hoped there would be no opposition to
 the resolution, but in spite of this there
 were few loud cries of .sNo!" | A eulogy of Robert Ernmet by Wil- 1 liam Redmond and a vote. of thanks to
 Lord Mayor Harrington, proposed by
 John Redmond, concluded the proceed i ings. IT.
 1 T. P. O'Connor, summing up to-day's
 proceedings, wrote the following for the
 Associated Press: s,- -s@st. .>>5t "This was the day for agreeing on the ] amendments to the land bill which are
 considered essential Most of these
 were proposed by William 3O'Brien They covered several important ftras-
 tions. including demands for more lib-
 eral treatment of the congested districts
 and of the laborers. The proceedings
 were extremely harmonious. There | was an animated but geod-humored
 discussion on the retention of an eighth
 as rent charge proposed by MT. Da- 1 witt and myself, the former represent i ing views in favor of the, nationaliza- ton of the land, while put forward
 those of peasant proprietary. Ultimate
 ly the resolution was, adopted con- demning the eighth, but retaining a 1 technical rent charge" s..,.,- @.., One of the most important amend
 ments was that proposed by, Michael
 Davitt-that the principle of the Amer
 ican homestead law be introduced into
 the land bill to safeguard the peasants
 from the results of improvident borrow :! ing and the operation of land grabbers and land-jobbers. <<>.S~ -ssI%.s5.5.a
 John Redmond made the following