PARNELL COMMISSION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2016, 6 March 1890, Page 1

PARNELL COMMISSION.

London, March 3. In the House of Commons to-day Mr WVH. Smith, said: that,the ParnelJiA party had been condemned on many grave charges, bqt. Goyernment yvo.uid not' prosecute them. The, statutory Commission had been used only. to. discover the .truth. He hope! that Home: Rule never would be founded. Boycotting, inciting to crime, and suffering’ and misery, and the tactics of the Land League, he , thought were:certajn to end in anarchy, Mr Gladstone declared.that it was unprecedented to take the Judges to task for carrying out their judicial dtuies. The whole report, he considered; was bristling with disputable matter,,and it was unreasonable to ask the Ho.Ujje to accept it as a whoje..; Ireland,.Repaid,, was on Ihe brink of famine, \j7h,en, seven of the defendants joined .-in a seditions conspiracy it w,as un,wisa>n.l indecent to censure the others for;.these charges. He.cnnteuded that,the decade of the old agitation had prevented tnor° crime than it bad caused, and he regarded Mr Parnell, since 1880, as having con- ; tributed to Jibe peace of Ireland;- In- biA opinion the over,tares.of Lbnl Carnarvon; to Mr Parnell had, condoned; previous acts. In concluding Mr. Gladstone urged the Rouge;,‘not; to accept the denial': of the Minister, even if he'w&SKa member of the Uou.-te ofiLords. , ; ( 'V