IRISH LAND QUESTION

Evening Star, Issue 12926, 24 September 1906, Page 6

IRISH LAND QUESTION

A CONFERENCE t)E'SmED. I Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 23.} (Received September 24, at 8.35 a.m.)'! Replying to a member of the Evicted Tenants' Association, Lord Dunraven declared that he w»s agreeable to tho reassembling of the Irish Land Conference. , JA conference between representatives ot the landlords and tenants was suggested 111 1902, -with a view to a national and united effort to settle the land question. Eventually a land conference committee was formed, and after a ballot had been taken the landowners and the tenants each appointed four representatives to a conference. The landlords were represented by Lord Dunraven, Lord Mayo, Colonel Poe, and Colonel Evcrard, and the tenants bv Mr J. Redmond, Mr W. O'Brien, Mr f. W. Russell, and Mr T. Harrington, M-P.s. On January 3, 1903, they presented their report, which recommended as a basis of future, legislation the substitution of an occupying proprietary for the existing system of dual ownership. Mr Wyndham's I/and Act of 1903 followed, which, on July 20, 1905, Mr Redmond declared had " absolutely and completely broken clown." Mr W. O'Brien and otliers contend that it is infinitely better to settle Irish grievances by means of legislation based upon conclusions that are the result of national conferences among the representatives of Ireland than bv means of Roval Commissions upon which Irishmen of any party are but meagrely represented.]