The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-29
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BY TIMOTHY J o,CoNNoR.
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BY TIMOTHY J O'C0NN0R.
 Dublin, Nov. 2s.--one might have been pardoned for supposing that dur ing all the years that have passed since Ireland was welded to Great Britain every provision in the Act of Union had been put into operation. The incident in the House of Lords the other afternoon discovers the fact that until the present time the curi- ous provision relating to the election of an Irish Representative Peer in the case of the casting of an equality of votes for two candidates has never been acted upon. The Clerk of Par liament Is authority for this state ment. Lord Ashtown will not be ai- lowed by the Nationallsts to forget that he owes his place in Parliament to a drawing of lots and yet what more sensible expendient would be adopted? To dispose of tie" by putting the two names n glass jar and lifting out one Is surely not only an easier but better method than a fresh election even if 1t does smack little of gambling.
 Apropos of the new Irish Land Bill, it is reported that in the event of no progress being made this session. the government will by resolution carry over the bill to next session. Such method of dealing with public bills has been advocated on radical plat forms. for long time, but this is the first serious attempt to make 1t a part of the Parliamentary machinery. Unionists are inclined to suspect that the measure will hamper rather than assist the general cause of land pur- chase. Large sums of money are to be used for the purpose of compulsory purchase in conEested districts. This, 1t is claimed by the Unionists will place the agitators athwaft the course Of genuine land purchase.
 The constabulary authorities con- tinue to draft large numbers of extra police into tho district of Riverstown. County Sligo. where the young man Stenson was shot during a cattle drive recently. Notwithstanding the pres- ence of the augmented force. a num- ber of cattle drives on a small scale were carried out last Sunday night. The six rnonths' grazing lettings in the district expired on Sunday, and al- most every farmer in the district has withdrawn his cattle from the grazing lands. The polkce do not anticipate any difficulty from the restocking of any of the lands, but, in view of Q possible attack on the members of the force. they intend to keep the local force considerably augmented until matters in the county have assumed
 their normal condition. During the eviction of herd in the Athenry dis trfst stones were flung at the police.
 who charged the crowd with batons, and several persons were injured. 1t was announced in Ballymote that another cattle drive had taken place
 on farm owned by Mrs Creighton,
 three miles from the town. in the opposite direction to Riverstown. The
 cattle were afterwards found two miles AAzz | farm by the herdsman No policemen
 were present. as all the available men | in the district had been sent into Riv- | erstown. On a grazing farm near Drogheda some persons tied the tails | of eight cattle together on Sunday
 night. with the result that portions oi the tails of four aninials were pulled away in the struggles of the cattle to 1 free themselves. 1t is stated that tht Irish government has decided to hold
 the forthcoming winter assizes for the
 province of Leinster in tho city oi | Dublin instead of in one of the coun. | ty towns as heretofore. It is suggest | ed that this change has become neces
 sary owing to the impossibility of ob' taintng convictions in agrarian and DO | litical cases.
 renents and LeaEuers.
 4 meeting under the auspices oi the Town Tenants and United Irisl
 Leagues was held some days ago al iCarrick -on Shannon. When one of the speakers, Mir. Pagan, referred to th' | death of Stenson, there were loud | groans. Mir. Pagan said that what had occurred was a reminder of what the! might expect from Liberal Govern'
 ment. They had formerly a rallying cry of Remember Mitchelstown:" foI l the future 1t would be Remember Riv.
 erstown." The meeting pledged itsoli | to support the Carrick- on Shannon 1 town tenants in their NO rent strike | if the reduction of 20 per cent. on tht November rents is not allowed. A let. | ter was read from Mir. John Dillon, M F., pointing out the necessity for co. | operation between the people of the | town and the country. and trusting ] that unity would be continued. "iI spite of the exertions of certain peo pie who have worked so hard in late years to SOW discord and enmity be- | tween town and country"
 The prosecution by the Grown oi twenty-one members of the Rivers | town branch of the United Irish League. County Sligo, for having. as
 alleged, conspired and copfederated to- Qether to compel fifteen ProtessantE | 10 join the United Irish League md | subscribe to It's funds, was opened al R;verstown and adjourned for 4 week MT. Lyons, solicitor, of Sligo, said that the fifteen Protestants summoned as | witnesses had remained away as pro- test against the Irish Executive. He stated that his clients had Found fl necessary to form a Protestant De- fence Association to protect their lives families and property as the Imperial