The Times-Parnell Commission

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 128, 4 May 1889, Page 2

The Times-Parnell Commission

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. [ PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ London, May 1. Before The Times Parnell Commission to-day the cross- examination of Mr Parnell was continued. He admitted saying at Troy (New York) that, of the amount subscribed aa the result of his tour in America for every five dollars he accepted for bread he accepted twenty for lead. What he meant by that was that he accepted the American donations, and would apply the moneys raised in the proportion of 5 dollars to charitable pur poses, and 20 dollars to the objects of the League in the sense of carrying on the fight for Homo Kule, May 2. The cross-examination of Mr Parnell by Sir R. E. Webster was continued yesterday The Irish leader is sk lfully answering the Attorney-Gin eral's questions. He considered the enthusiasm of Mr W. E. Redmond, M.P., approached to rashness, and he had privately reproved him for menacing speeohes Be udmitted that the protests agaiust crime gince 1880 were not sufficient in view of the increase of outrages. His no rent manifesto xas an act of re talisation f < r li^ imprisonment iv Kilmainham Gaol, and the arrest of other members of his party, and he vr as w i liug to admit th tt the mauif s to wasopen to condemnation, though it had never bef ore been formally withdrawn.