Special Commission to inquire into Charges and Allegations against certain M.P.s in Proceedings in Action of O'Donnell v. Walter: report

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lig that Mr. 
Parnell or any of the respondents knew that the Clan-na-Gael had obtained the control over the Irish National League of America, or was collecting money for the Parliamentary Fund, and the circulars of that body as well as the evidence of Le Caron show that their operations were secret. 
But though it has not been proved that Mr. 
Parnell and the other respondents knew that the Clan-na-Gael controlled the League or that the Olan-na-Gael was collecting money for the Parliamentary Fund, it_^jJb_een_prove_d that they invited and obtained the assistance and co-operation of the Physical Force Party in America, including the Clan-na-Gael, and in order to obtain that assistance abstained from repudiating or condemning the action of that party. 
It has also been proved that the respondents invited the assistance and co-operation, and accepted subscriptions from Patrick Ford, a known advocate of crime and the use of dynamite. 
It was agreed between counsel for the accusers and the respon¬ dents that the names of the recipients of the money paid to them out of the Parliamentary Fund should not be disclosed, and we have not thought it necessary to prosecute our inquiries further on this subject. 

We have now pursued our inquiry over a sufficiently extended Conclusions. 
period to enable us to report upon the several charges and allega¬ tions which have been made against the respondents, and we have indicated in the course of this statement our findings upon these charges and allegations, but it will be convenient to repeat seriatim the conclusions we have arrived at upon the issues which have been raised for our consideration. 
I. 
We find that the respondent Members of Parliament collec¬ tively were not members of a conspiracy having for its object to establish the absolute independence of Ireland, but we find that Supra, pp. 
21,32. 
some of them, together with Mr. 
Davitt, established and joined in the Land League organisation with the intention by its means to bring about the absolute independence of Ireland as a separate nation. 
The names of those respondents are set out at page 32 of this Report. 
II. 
'We find that the respond ents did enter into a conspiracy by a Supra, p. 
53. 
system of coercion and intimidation to promote an agrarian agitation against the payment of agricultural rents, for the purpose of impoverishing and expelling from the country the Irish landlords who were styled the " English Garrison." 
III. 
We find that the charge that " when on certain occasions " they thought it politic to denounce, and did denounce certain " crimes in public they afterwards led their supporters to believe Supra, p. 
58, and " such denunciations was not sincere" is not established. 
We APPendlxJ P-156-entirely acquit Mr. 
Parnell and the other respondents of the charge of insincerity in their denunciation of the Phoenix Park murders, and find that the "facsimile" letter on which this charge was chiefly-based as against Mr. 
Parnell is a forgery. 
IY. 
We find that the respondents did disseminate the " Irish World" Supra, p. 
76. 
and other newspapers tending to incite to sedition and the commis¬ sion of other crime. 
Y. 
We find that the respondents, did not directly incite persons to the commission of crime other than intimidation, but that they did incite to intimidation, and that the consequence of that incite-Supra, p. 
88. 
ment was that crime and outrage were committed by the persons incited. 
We find that it has not been proved that the respondents made payments for the purpose of inciting persons to commit crime. 
YL We find as to the allegation that the respondents did Supra, p. 
92, nothing to prevent crime and expressed no bona fide disapproval, that some of the respondents, and in particular Mr. 
Davitt, did express bona fide disapproval of crime and outrage, but that the 

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