THE IRISH COMPENSATION BILL.
LordEloho, in the midst of an otherwise dull speech in the House of Commons on the Irish Belief Bill, thus amusingly satirised the action of the Government in connection with the Irish Compensation Bill: —He said the principle of this Bill was put in a nutshell in a letter which he had received from a correspondent at Bristol. He wrote —" My Lord, I am a soda-water manufacturer. (Laughter). The last three years have been as disastrous to me as to the Irish husbandman. My landlord is inexorable. He will have every copper of rent, no remission whatever, and threatens eviction by distress on my plant and machinery, built into his freehold. Smitten sorely by wretched weather and German Spring competition—(laughter)--a Soda-water Relief Bill enabling me to claim my plant or full compensation in defiance of any legal process would put me on a bed of roses. It iB useless threatening to shoot my landlord if i he has the audacity to claim his own—his i rent —as he is an officer of Volunteers, and a far better shot than I am."
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2087, 1 November 1880, Page 3
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185THE IRISH COMPENSATION BILL. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2087, 1 November 1880, Page 3
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