IRISH LAND QUESTION
SPEECHES IN PARLIAMENT. LONDON, February 22. In the House of Commons, Mr J. E. Redmond, Nationalist member for Waterford, moved an amendment to the Address-iu-Repiy asking for an Imperial credit for the compulsory wholesale purchase of mil n Gebuid. Mr T. W. Russell, the Unionist member for Tyrone, seconded the amendment in a violent speech, urging that a timely concession should be made lest bloodshed should ensue. The landowners were mere rent-chargers. The Right Hon A. J. Balfour, leader of the House, said that ' compulsion would be wild and ruinous, and bring ruin to the labourers. The Irish Lands Purchase Acts had successfully created 60,000 peasant proprietors. The Right Hon G. Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said it was impossible to risk 120 millions, and plunge Ireland into litigation. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Opposition, supported the amendment, which was rejected bv 235 to 140. The Irish Nationalist- press reminds the electors that their claims are only granted in response to turbulent, violence and refusal to pay rents.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1523, 28 February 1901, Page 46
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