Show 11 IT WAS him session of the irilli national leasne THERE A war of words ensues between the two factions foreign facts LoNno xMay la tha annual convention of the irish national league britain which was held to day at new castie on tyne waa as anticipated a blonny and tempestuous gathering the Parnel lites although in the minority were numerous enough to seriously disturb the proceedings and almost participate a riot the reason for holding the annual convention ot this early date was the falling of in the receipts of the T P oconnor M P president of the league who presided baid that the executive had to choose between early convention and executive in previous years the executive had been able to lay before the convention a record of steady progress but the unfortunate breach in the irish ranfis has exercised on the organization in gibat britain the same disastrous effect as on the irish organization in every part of the world mr oconnor then turned his attention to mr parnell and said that mr Par nells last manifesto was an evidence of the desperate condition into which that leader is falling he does not dare to allow the national league of great britain to have its affairs carried on in an ordinary manner but he proposes to place the machinery of the league in the hands ofa his friends without to the rules of the organization the excuse he gives for this ac tion which is partly a usurpation and partly a secession is that his enemies have joined with the english in an effort to secure his political overthrow A alio secured the floor during the morning proceedings created much excitement by defending his leader and assailing his assailants healy sexton and mccarthy the explanation for the falling off in the receipts he declared was that it had become apparent to the branches that there was a determination evinced by the officers of the organization to make the league an annex of the national liberal federation par delfs friends had concluded after deliberation be ration not to send delegates to the convention but to be represented by a few members whose instructions were to protest against the capture of the league by mr borta the liverpool Parnel lites are busy preparing to resist the reelection of T P oconnor M P whose speech at the league hall has thoroughly exasperated them oconnor has tor a long time been re carded as more of an english radical than an irish nationalist |