Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
NEWS ABOUT IRELAND
Form of the Next Home Rule Bill
Discussed.
REDUCTION IN THE BOARDS
Comment on the United Irish League
of America.
FATE OF EvICTED TENANTS
Criticism Of the Agricultural and
Technical Institute-Study Of
Gaelic Language.
FATE OF EVICTED TENANTS

| DUBLIN, December lit is announced
| here what is considered to be reliable
| authority that a conference recently took
| place In Dublin between Mr.. Bryce and Sir
Anthony MacDonnell and Mr.. John Red
mond and Mr.. John Dillon. representing the
government and the Irish party respec
| lively, In reference to the form of next
| years home rule measure.
Sir Anthony mcdonnell is said to have
submitted a draft of the measure. and 1t
| Is now stated that the essential features of
| the bill have been completely settled.
| The legislative union is to remain I'M
| touched.
An Irish council is to be created with a
proportion of between two-thirds and three
| fourths of its members elected on the exist
| ing parliamentary franchise, the remainder
| 20 be elected on a restricted franchise or
| nominated.
Ireland is to retain her present represen-
| tation in the imperial parliament.
Clergymen of all denominations shall be
| eligible for membership in the council.
All the forty odd boards by which at
present the work of administration is per-
| formed are to be replaced by four new
boards:
First-The central or castle board
Second-A department of education.
Third-A department for agriculture
Fourth-A department for land transfer.
control, but are to be reduced in numbers.
The position of the judiciary also is to
remain unaffected.
AS to the financial arrangements It is
computed that after certain deductions
from Irish tax revenue are made for i'm
perial and other purposes balance of be-
tween S20CO000O and s25,00O,O0O will re-
| main at the disposal of the Irish council.
Constitutional Movement.
The Freeman's Journal has a jubiant
| leading article on the recent convention of
| the United Irish League of America. 1t
declares that the convention has repudiated
with emphasis the schism of Mr.. William
O'Brien, and it reproduces from the Irish
World of New York the speeches of
Colonel Blake who fought against the
British forces in South Africa Of ODono-
| van Rosa and of John Fnerty. Blake is
reported to have said that while it did not
require much of an army to whip the
English he was not an advocate of phys
ical force The people of Ireland were
without arms and ammunition, We're not
allowed to have them, and could not SNUG
gle them in. Commenting on these various
observations. the Freeman's Journal SAYS:
The extremists who We're extremists when
| II was practical politics to be extreme are
consttutionalists today because they be-
| lieve the constitutional movement to be
| reality, and recognize the work that 1t has
accomplished. Probably 1t would be found
| II new conditions arose, and the cOnstitu-
| tional movement were unfortuna tely foiled
| the constitutionalists of today would rem
| der more hostages to the new methods than
| their critics of the hour"
In a letter of four and one-half columns
| in the Freemans Journal Mr.. Dillon NJ
F., makes fierce attack on the report of
the Dunraven-O' Brien conference with
reference to the reinstatement of eyicted
| tenants. He says that the report will eff
| feet nothing, and that the real object Of
the conference is to dethrone the national
ist party and to put Lord Dunraven and
his friends in control of Irish politics. Mr.
Dillon cannot understand how Mr. Har-
rington and Mr.. T. w Russell could have
felt themselves free to take part in such
an enterprise, and he declares that one of
the chief indictments to the lords to main
tain their present obstinate attitude has
been the hope that through the exertions
| of Lord Dunraven and his colleagues
| further plumber would be forthcoming The
nationalist organ heartily indorses MI
| Dilons attack and says it would be a mis-
fortune if the evicted tenants or their
! friends were deluded into the notion that
| any good could come from the wholly in
| effective report of the Dunraven confer
ence. IT remains to be seen whether the
| nationalist leaders will now take such ac-
| ton against Mr.. Harrington as would send
| him definitely into Mr. OBrien's camp
Revival of Gaelic.
The committee which has been inouirine,
into the working of the Agricultural and
| fore 1t of the Rev. Father OReilly, p p
of Kilcormack. He declared that the de-
| partment was an un-Irish department and
| that it was largely stated from abroad.
He referred also to Sir Horace Plunkett's
notorious book. which he declared was one
of the factors that initiated against the
department. and very nearly destroyed the
| departments work in the Kings county.
Father OReilly stated very frankly that
| gentlemen who praised everything for
eign and discounted everything home
grown were doing a great deal of harm to
| the country.
The establishment of the Leinster Teach
| ing College now makes the proper educa-
| tional equipment Of Gaelic-loving Dublin
a mere matter of time. The college will
| teach Irish. Even the national board has
admitted that the introduction of Irish has
awakened a new interest in the schools
made them more attractive and led to
better results in other studies as we'll
| There is evidence, too that the teaching
| of other modern languages is being re-
| formed in view OF the new methods and
| the happy results of the Irish classes The
| Irish college appears to start out under
| good auspices. well Differed and strongly
supported.