The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1903-03-27
IRISH LAu Nd BILL
.GDVERNMENT NE EAsURE MAKES
ITS APPEARANCE In THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
be COMES & FFECTlvE NOV 1

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.
1ary. ND. Wyndham, introduced the.
governments long anticipated Irish
land bill In the house OF commons dur
Ing the day. It proposes q free grant
OF $50. 100000 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 congssted dis
'tricts and $4,000 elsewhere The bill
will become effective Nov. J.. Mr..
Wyndham said $3.50, ,oOO,O 900 could safe
ly be advanced on Irish land, but he
thought the scheme would not involve
$5Uo,UUO, 600. st8
'ine irish secretary explained that
Wai.e the maximum charge on the
Elsi.sh treasury would not exceed
Sisy. 5,upt in "a single year, the reduc-
-}a. Nf ,i,,;r
OF /. i.c...ad would amount to 1880, 900
teuae Crowded With Visitors.
The Zen mtsreSt felt in this new
Legislation, which, it is hoped, will
piCiIiC. peale anu lontentment in Ire
Ian, Mas evidenced by the crowded
ho.s,;.
hc peers gallery and the distin-
g,l-ha1 strangers gallery were filed
ana, tnele has been no such gathering
ci he. Ders Of parliament since the
Oi,s--l--ss II the session. rs
Nh. uyndham, who was heartily
chse.ci when he. arose to speak, an.
nc. .lsal at the outset that the govern.
nenI thought cash aid was necessary
Tor the fuifillment of the proposed
scheme, but it attached greater impor-
tance to the credit operation than to
the cash operation. He then unfoided
the scheme which provides for ad-
yances 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. It will be called guaranteed 2A
per cent stock" and will be unredeem-
able for thirty years.
Mr.. Wyndham doubted il $500. .000,-
600 Of the stock would be needed. It
will be issued at the rate Of $25,000,000
yearly for the first three years and
afterwards possibly in larger sums.
Free Grant Of 10000, 900.
In addition to this the government
proposed free grant Of $4,000, 900
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 $1,950,0O0.
Against this charge on the British
treasury the Irish government pro-
poses forthwith to commence reduc-
tions In the cost Of administration
amounting to S1.2s0.000 per annum
forever. .1 .s i3,s
1OA1QQ4Ak WI w lAuA0kls uCalt Will
the points OF the bill which contain
bewildering mass OF figures Showing
how advances would be made and the
terms OF repayment, but 1t seems in
the main to 10 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 punctuated by cHeers, MIR.
Wyndham said the landlords Of Ire
land were being ruined financially
and that the tenants were being ruined
morally and the taxpayers of England
were paying 100000 per annum to
& the land commission and $7,000,00O to
the Irish police, which largely was
needed to deal with illegalities arising
from the land question.
rs It remarkable under these cir
scumstances?n asked the Irish secre-
tary the landlords and tenants
! come together ?'' ~ M 4S
Present Conditions Unbearabie.
Speaking of present conditions liz
\ ireland Mr.. Wyndham instanced one
village IA which landlord was in the
work house during the greater part OF
the year. w hilei the tenants lived under
conditions worse than that OF the KAT
frs OF Africa hat the government
proposed to do % remedy this state oss
n affairs was. brie lille pithdr drawing
no existing rig ghts. II centempIa
( that the pure chase Of land in the future
should proceed by the sale of estates,
under three oornm sioners. Michael
1 Finucane, under secret til thes
statistical apartment Frederick
Brent and wv. F.5 Hxyley. The tDrr,.
a,a ynyI,n ~ I'M ff ~ ss.