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IN the Commons on Thursday,

in the resumed debate on the Second Reading o f the Land

BIL1" Law (Ireland) Bill, Mr. T . W. Russell supported the measure “ cordially, heartily, and strenuously,” upon the ground that Ireland could look for neither peace nor safety until the land question had been treated in a drastic fashion. But, while taking up this attitude, he announced that he would help to uphold the landlords’ rights wherever those rights were unjustly assailed. Colonel Saunderson stated his belief that the B ill was not meant to become law ; but he predicted that if it were ever placed on ¿the Statute Book it would make impossible the reinstatement o f the evicted tenants, besides confiscating the landlords’ property and driving them out o f the country. A Land Bill of some kind was no doubt necessary, but not this Bill, which merely embodied robbery dressed up in the covering of an Act of Parliament. Mr. W. Redmond declared that under this Bill, the Government had virtually abandoned the evicted tenants. Mr. Smith-Barry said that although he and his colleagues did not intend to divide against the Second Reading, most searching inquiry into the provisions of the Bill would be made in Committee. Mr. Dillon maintained that a heavy responsibility would •rest upon those who, by turning a deaf ear to justice, helped to substitute discontent, and perhaps crime and outrage, for the present peaceful condition of Ireland. Mr. Chamberlain asserted that the Bill would remove almost every one o f the important safeguards that appeared in the Act of

18 8 1 . Not only did it differ in principle from that Act, but ■ be regretted that the two measures had been introduced in an entirely different spirit, the present one being supported by an appeal to prejudice and passion that was hardly worthy o f the Chief Secretary. The keynote of the Bill was Clause 5, which dealt with improvements ; but while the Act of 18 8 1 laid down the broad and fair principle, to which no ■ one objected, that the tenant was not to be rented on improvements made by himself, the various sub-sections of the clause, read together, would leave no room for rent at all. His own view was that the proper and final solution of

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this question was land purchase, and one of his main objections to the present B ill was that it would throw increased obstacles in the way of that plan. I f the Chief Secretary desired to make the measure a good one, he would carefully consider such amendments and criticisms as might be offered; but if the Bill was only part o f an electoral programme, the House of Lords would be failing in its duty if it did not give it the same treatment that it gave to the Home Rule Bill.

The Solicitor-General for Scotland, on

—Friday’s Friday, resuming the debate on the second d ebate. reading of the Irish Land Bill, argued that the measure, so far from being open to the description which Mr. Chamberlain had applied to it, would not only correct errors in the Land Act o f 18 8 1 , but extend its operation to cases which, in spirit, it admittedly ought to cover. The policy of the B ill was that the increased letting value of improvements must and should go to those who had made them. Instead of being, as Mr. Carson and other members had alleged, a confiscatory measure, it sought to declare that confiscation by law should cease, and industry be secured o f its reward. Mr. Dane, from the Opposition side, gave a general support to the Bill, and stated his belief that the Irish landlords need have no apprehension that the effect ot Clause 5 would be to reduce rents to prairie value. Mr. Sexton, in a speech principally devoted to comments on the various clauses o f the Bill, declared that he had no hope of the Irish tenants obtaining the full benefit o f the Act of 18 8 1 unless the Courts were given an equitable jurisdiction to deal with arrears. Mr. Balfour said that, for his own part, he should not have thought of going back on the Act of 18 8 1 ; but, as the B ill reopened some o f the principles of that Act, he was bound to consider not only the intentions of its framers, but how far it was consonant with justice. No commonsense interpretation of Mr. Gladstone’s speeches while that measure was passing through the House could justify the contention of the framers of the Bill respecting improvements and occupation right. The House would be acting criminally by encouraging the idea among Irish tenants that if they sent a sufficient number of their representatives to the House of Commons a “ squeezable” Government would place no limit upon the amount of relief that might be extracted from Parliament. No doubt with a little amendment some of the clauses of the B ill would supply the necessary “ repairs and patches ” to the Act of 1 8 8 1 ; but he and his friends, in assenting to the second reading,