REPORT OF THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2023, 22 March 1890, Page 1

REPORT OF THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

Albany, March 19, The report of the Times-Purnell Commission, which is to hand per steamer from London, was a mast exhaustive judgment, and covered 160 pages. In summing up the Judges find that the respondent ' members did not conspire for the establishment of the absolute independence of Ireland, though some of them were allied with Mr M. Davitt in establishing the Land League with that intention, and had conspired by a sys'em of coercion and intimidation to promote agrarian agitation for the purpose of expelling the landlords. The charge that their denunciation 1 of crime was insincere hud not been established. The facsimile letter, on which the charge was based was a forgery, and therefore unproved. The charge that payments had been made for inciting persons- to commit crime, that they had done nothing toljprevent crime, and had not denounced intimidation, had defended persona charged with agrarian outrages, and had supported their families, was not proved. The Commission' also reported that the charge of membara being associated with notorious criminals, or of aiding their, escape from justice, or of having invited the assistance of co-opera-tion known to advocate crime, had not been proved. It was not proved that they know that the Dlan-aa-Gael controlled the League, or Was collecting money for Parliamentary funds. It was proved that the respondents ; bad invited and obtained the assistance of the physical forces party of America, and in order to obtain assistance: had abstained from repudiating or condemning the action of that party. Xt was unproved that Parnell knew that Sheridan and Boyton Were organising an outrage at tiie time of theiKPmainham negotiations ; that he was intimate with the leading Inviooibles ; that he recognised the Phoenix Park murders as their handiwork, or that he had helped Byrna to escape. The Commissioners complained that they had received no proper statement of the accounts of the Land Leaguej and had not received that assistance from Mr Parnell on this head that they were entitled to. They expressed the opinion that boycotting was illegal, and condemned the feeling of the Irish of all classes that the detection of crime was solely the affair of the police, and to ibis they attributed tbe obstacle in tbe detection of agrarian outrages.