Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

THE IRISH. The Irish Convention, to merge the Land into the National League, assembled in Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, on Wednesday, April 33. It was largely attended, and the personnel of the convention favorably impressed the on-lookers. An organization was effected by an election of the following officers: President, James A. Mooney, of Buffalo, President of the Irish Land League of the United States; Secretary. J. J. Hynes, of Buffalo, Secretary of the Irish Land League of the United States: Assistant Secretaries, William F. Sheehan, of Buffalo, and J. D. O’Connell, of Washington. President Mooney delivered an address of some length/ It was highly eulogistic of Parnell and denunciatory of Gladstone, end was received with Br*»t applause. There were twenty-five female delegates ta the meeting, and Mrs. Parnell occupied a position of honor on the stage. repot* showed that in the last year $79,<88 bad been recjired; that had been sent to Irel<ndfor league and relief purposes, and that 5W branch leagues existed in the united States and Canada. Aft x a somewhat lengthy debate, during which there was considerable confusion, a motion for the appointment of a member from each delegation as a committee to devise a plan for the merging of the Land League into the National League was adopted and the committee appointed. The attitude of the United States toward Great Britain was discussed, and Father McKenna, of New York B ate, offered a resolution denouncing the course of President Arthur as cowardly, declaring that, should he be a candidate for reMec.ion, he should receive no Irish votes. He was promptly ruled out of order. Father Conaty, of the com mi tee appointed to report a plan f ortho m rging of the conventions, said the committee was in favor of allowing the conventton to say whether or not it should carry on its organisations in the present form by adopting the platform of the Irish National League. They, however, recommended the adoption of two resolutions, one indorsing the principles and objects of the Irish National League, and the second that the delegates attend the convention in a body to-morrow and assist in promoting the union of all Irish patriotic bodies. The report was formally received. Mr. O’Brien, of New York, moved that the convention step from its platform to that of the Irish National League, and that the officers be elected immediately, so that it might go into the convention an organised body. Mr. Brown offered a substitute to the effect that the chair appoint a committee of seven, with power to declare the Land League adjourned. There was long and spirited wrangling, and this substitute was carried: “Resolved, That when thi-i convention adjourn it be to meet with the convention to-morrow, and that the Chairman aupoint a committee or seven with power to declare the Land League adjourned sine die, provided the convention to-morrow complies with the reports submitted and adopted here this evening by the committee appointed to submit a plan of reorganization.” Speeches were made by Brennan and Egan, the latter stating that while he was Treasurer of the League $1,230,000 passed through his hands. O’Donovan Rossa was present in the hall, but merely as the representative of a paper with which he has a nominal connection. The convention adionmed at 2 o'clock a. m. Tmt delegates to the Irish National League Convention assembled in Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, to the number of 1,200, on the morning of April 26. They represented Irish societies of every description in all States and most of the Territories. Forty of them were women. In the temporary organization the Rev. Maurice J. Dorney, of Chicago, was made Chairman. An animated debate arose upon the adoption of the report of the Committee on Rules, some of the delegates declaring that the rules submitted would suppress the liberty of debate. The rules were adopted. Congressman M. A. Foran, of Cleveland, Ohio, was made permanent President. O’Donovan-Rossa and other pronounced advocates of the dynamite theory were admitted to the convention -without protest. A telegram from Charles 8. Parnell to the President of the Irish-American Convention was read. Mr. Parnell advised the framing of a platform which would enable the Irish Land League and the constitutional agitators in Ireland to accept aid from America, at the same time avoiding anything which might furnish the British Government with a pretext for suppressing the national movement in Ireland. He expressed his confidence that if prudence, moderation and firmness ruled the convention the cause of Ireland would be advanced. After the announcement of the committees the convention adjourned for the day.