The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-16


tablishnent q endowment Of any particular
religion. [Cheera1
Al to trade and navigation, Il would b q
misfortune to ireland TO b separated from
England. The Irish Parliament would have
nothing TO do with coinage or the creation
OF legal tender The subject Of the post
Office would he left to the judgment Of
Parliament though the Government In
clined 10 the view thatit would be more
convenient to leave the pOst-0ffice matters
in the hands OF the Postmaster General.
Quarantine and one or two other subjects
were left in the same category.
The next subject to approach was that Of
the composition of the proposed legislative
body. The bill proposed to introduce two
orders who would sit and deliberate to-
gether, with the right Of voting separately
OH any occasion and on the demand Of either
body, which should be able to interpOse q
vote upon any measure for limited time.
either until the dissolution or for three
years. The orders would be constituted as
| follows:
First-There were the twenty-eight rep
resentativs Peers, who could not continue to
| sit in the House of Lords after the rep
resentatives OF the Irish people left the
House OF Commons They would have the
| option of sitting as portion Of the first or
der in the Irish Parliament, with the power
| of sitting for life. Some people thought
that option was not likely to be largely
used, but the speaker was not OF that mum
Der. He proposed that with the twenty.
eight Peers now In the House of Lords
there should sit seventy-five Representatives
elected by the Irish people With regard
70 the powers of election, the constituency
would be composed Of 0ccupiers of the
value of EOS and upward, and they would
be elected for ten years. The property quail
ificatiOn OF these representatives would be
goo annual value on . capital value OF
$4,000.
Mr.. Gladstone said he proposed that the
1Ol Irish members in the House of Com.
mons should be members of the Irish Par
lament, and while the first order of the
legislative body would consist of 1903 men,
bers the second order would consist of BOG.
1t was proposed to retain the Viceroy, but
he would not be the representative of a
party or quit Office with an outgoing gov.
eminent The Queen would be empowered
to delegate to him any prerogative she now
enjoys or would enjoy. The religious dis
ability now existing, which makes Roman
Catholics ineligible to the Office, would be
removed. With regard to the judges
who had been concerned in the administra-
ton of the criminal law in Ireland, her
Majesty might, il she saw cause, by order
in council, antedate the pensions Of
those particular judges In the future the
judges would be appointed by the Irish
Government, be paid out of the consolidated
fund and be removable only on the joint
address of the two orders. The constabul.
airy would remain under the present term
of service and under their present author
ity. The charge of the cOnstabulary was
now s150,OO0 per annum, and the speaker
felt confident the charge would be reduced,
but for the present he proposed to relieve
the Irish legislative body of all eXpendi-
ture for the constabulary in excess of
elOO, 900 per annum. The Government
had no desire to exempt the peace of Ire
land in reference to its final position, from
the ultimate control of the Irish Legislative
body. The speaker had no jealousy upon
that subject, as the care Of providing for
the ordinary security OF life and property
With respect to the civil service, the Gov
eminent did not think their case was the
same as that of the constabulary and the
transfer of civil service to tie legislative
body would effect a great economy. He,
therefore, thought it would be wise to au-
thOrize the civil servants now serving to
claim the pensions that would be due to
them upon the abolition of their offices,
provided they served two years, in order tn
prevent Inconvenience from rapid transit
ton of the service and at the close of that
time both parties should be free to nego-
tate afresh.
That was all, Mr.. Gladstone stated, that
he had to say Oh the subject of the new
constitution The proportion of the i'm
perial burdens which lie had to propose that
Ireland should bear was as one to fourteen.
He thought that the new Irish Parliament
ought to start with balance to its credit, but
the only fund that it would have, if left
alone, would be the solitary 100000 from
the Irish Church fund. He knew no way
of providing the necessary money, except
by carving it out of this years budget and
he proposed that in tie future Ireland
should pay one-fifteenth toward the impe-
rial expenditures. lie went on to speak OF
how much Ireland would gain by exporting
spirits to Great Britain and how much
Great Britain would lose to Ireland by the
flow Of money from one to the other As
the result Of careful inquiry he stated
with confidence, not as an actual dem
onstratiOn, but rs matter of
certainty, with regari to the far greater
portion, that the irish receipts would gain
from Great Britain . sum that would
amount to 81, 400, 900 per anirlm. He then
entered into an elaborate calculation of the
total income and expenditure of Ireland, in
the course Of which he stated that the total
charge to Ireland on account of Imperial
Government he put at 81, 49,. 900 per an
mum. He stated, as an instance of the de-
moralization of Irish administration, that
while the post-0ffice in England showed
large surplus, in Ireland 1t just paid its ex-
penses. He estimated the total expenditure
Of ireland. including payment as nation
al sinking fund for the Irish portion Of the
Against that there was q total income of
sS. $50, 900, or . surplus to the good of
E4O4.OOO
ARGUMENTS FOR THE MEA SURE.
''It has naturally been said in England
and Scotland" continued Mr.. Gladstone.
that for great many years past we have
been struggling 10 pass good laws for Ire
land and that We have sacrificed our time,
neglected our interests and paid our money
and We have done all this in the endeavor
to give Ireland good laws. This is quite
true with regard to the general course of
legislation since 1S49. Many of those laws
have been passed under al influence which
/ can hardly describe other than as the in
fluence of fear"
With regard to the history of the land
question no man could know that until he