Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-17

what he felt to be a formidable dilemma.
Ireland was to have domestic Legislature
for Irish affairs, and the speaker thought it
would be perfectly clear that if Ireland was
to have domestic legislature it should not
control Scotch of English affairs. But how
were the Irish to be taxed? He proposed a
plan whereby the general power of taxation
was given to the Irish parliament, the pro-
ceeds of custom and excise to be held for
the benefit of Ireland. The Irish parliament
would have nothing to do with coinage on
creation of legal tender. The subject of the
postoffices would be left to the judgment
of parliament, though the government was in
clined to the view that it would be more con-
venint to leave the postoffice matters in the
hands of the postmaster general. Quaran-
tine and one or two others subjects we're left
of the category.
The Irish parliament, he proposed should
consist of twenty eight peers now in the house
of lords, with whom there should sit seventy
five representatives elected by the Irish peo-
pie. With regard to the powers of election, the
constituency would be composed of Occupi-
ers of the value of Eos and upward, and they
would be elected for ten years. The prop
erty qualification of these representatives
would be GOO, annually a capital value of
600. Mr.. Gladstone said he proposed
that the 101 Irish members in the house of
parliament, and the second order would con-
sist of 206 members. 1t was proposed to re-
tain the viceroy, but he would not be the
representative of party or quit office with
an outgoing government. The queen would
be empowered to delegate to him any per-
ogative she now enjoyed, or would enjoy
The religious disability now existing, which
makes Roman Catholics ineligible to their
Office would be removed. With regard to
the judges who had been concerned in the
administration of the criminal law in Ire
land, her majesty might, if she saw cause,
by order in council, ante date the pensions
of these particular judges. In the future
these judges would be appointed by the Irish
government; be paid out of the consolidated
fund, and be removable on the joint address
of the two orders. The constabulary would
remain under the present term of service
and under their present authority. The
charge for the constabulary was now 81 $780,
600 per annum, and the speaker felt conf
dent the charge would be reduced, but for
the present he proposed to relieve the Irish
legislative body of all expenditure for the
cOnstabulary IN excess OF t1OO,OOO per an
mum. In closing, Gladstone referred to the
Irish people as loyal and true and filled with
imperial patriotism. The delivery of his
speech took three hours and twenty minutes.
Among the various radical wOrkingmen
clubs of London the feeling is in favor of
Mr.. Gladstone. Several meetings were held
to discuss the project of a grand mass dem
onstration in support of the home rule bill.
Dispatches from all over Great Britain and
Ireland show, everywhere, popular interest
abroad in the outcome of the home rule pro-
ceedipgs in the house of commons. Extra
editions of the various daily newspapers
were gotten out in all the provincial towns
as rapidly as the news could be obtained
from London ON the day Gladstone deliv-
cred his speech and printed, and the sales
are everywhere reported as being enormous.
The country people went into the towns ev-
erywhere in the united kingdom. Gladstone
receives general condemnation from all the
London papers.