| Show THE EMERALD ISLE Balfor Introduce a Bill 01 the Fnrchajo of Land lu Ireland MR GLADSTONE SPEAKS ON THE MEASURE Trastdjr In California The Steele Court Martial Senate and Honsr ByTeJesraph tothaHtTa1 DiLJon DILL For Land Pr la Iend and the Improvement ofLauil IOSDOK March 24 Balfour Introduced In-troduced a bill for the purchase of land in Ireland and fortheimiiroTe ortbelmlre metit of the poorer and more exhausted ex-hausted districts The bill also pr ride for the eslablUbmvnt of nn Irish land department Balfoutsald thai la proposIng the formation of a land department complex nature of the question preeented itself There were now no fewer than five bodies for the raluatlon and talc of land The bill proinsed nn amalgamation amalga-mation of lIthe into one body Regarding Re-garding the question Ought the land purchase bill t b compul fcorj the government answered no Compulsion should b used most ppariugly ironical Irish cheers but when Justified li necessity ne-cessity 1 it should beapplled Compulsion Compul-sion could not be ouetJdcd If they compelled landlords t Mil they must for tenants to buy A most cogent reason against compulsion was that they could not make the bill com < ulbory without applying it to the whole cf Ireland The government saw no possibility of the immediate consummation of such an enormous transaction a the compulsory transfer of the whole of the laud of Ireland from the existing owners t occupierv Ought they to throw any risk upon the British taxpayers The government govern-ment answered no StIll British credit under perfectly secure conditions con-ditions must 0 used in dealing with the question of ant t tenants t enable them to purchase The government bad decided against advancing more than twenty yean rental at the local rates now PAID BY TILE LANDIJUnS Balfour ten went on at great length to explain the scheme rf the tyef fundsthe latter being very complicated The bill in a large portion Lithe Ashbourne ae improved and with additions required re-quired for security for purchasers ct After an elaborate financial detail showing how the Imperial exchequer would provide against de mlt Balfour aid a default was InipoHMhle unless there wag a reptti loll of the famine of 1543 I is telgnt t ur onefourth of 1 percent per-cent as a fund for the erection of laborers dwelhingt A grant of a million and a half from the Irish Church surplus would 0 devoted to relieving depression terlrg industries in-dustries and ameliorating the condition condi-tion of the poor dbtrkt Balfour in conclusion defended the scheme as without ri k to the imperial tix advanced myer while tim XT3000onO vanced under thu bill with the 10000000 of the A hlx > urn net would establish a pepetual fund from which future purchases might L made Gladstone said the scheme was and certainly very complicated thanks were due to Balfour fur the tanks plans be had taken In iU preparation I was premature he added to discus the involved pr > csals of the bill The bill paid Its first reading It GI IMTOM tonight in asicech t the National Liberal dub sioke Balfours purchase pur-chase bill as a bold measure which involved the British taxpayers assuming as-suming large liabilities and demanded demand-ed a searching investIgation He ferrlog to the Tarnell CommMiou he sId he could not eoliceUe a hhorter method of suicide than that adopted by the House of Lords Inn in-n the report Thou Tory majority pprvng jority had invented political methods meth-ods a newfangled a they were abominable COMMEJTS Ill T1IH IRISh The Doily JVctra peaking of the land jiurchase bill nays One thing stands out clearly that the British credit may b pledged to the extent of 33000000 for the benefit nominally of the Irish tenant but really for the benefit of tho I mil lords The Xeict says the voice WM Bat fours but the hand was Goscbens Tarncll says the bill is absurd and objectionable In the highest degree one of the fatal defects being that I gives no local control over its administration ad-ministration Davitt pronounced against tbe bill as an insidious proposal to give the landlord more than the value of his land The Time docs not commit itself not having studied the bill but thinks upon the whole that It seems t prompt the creation of a peasant proprietary on a very large scale without the British involving lrlih exchequer chequer rk |
