The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

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tive of party, to change with the
changes of cabinets; and the non-eligi-
bility of Catholics to this Office is to be
removed. Ireland is to have domes-
tic legislature for the conducting of
business both legislative and admins
trative, possessing, among other things,
the general power of taxation. The
parliament at Dublin is to comprise
two orders, who are to sit and deliber-
ate together with the right of voting
separately, on the demand of either
body, which should be able to inter-
pose veto upon any measure for linn
tied time, either until dissolution or for
three years. In the first order are to
be included the twenty eight represent
alive Irish peers, with power to sit for
! life; and with them will sit seventy
five representatives elected by the Irish
people for term of ten years. A
property qualification is affixed both to
these representatives and to those who
elect them. In the second order are to
be the one hundred one Irish members
of the house of commons and one hun
dred five other members, making in all
a membership just double that of the
first order. The constabulary is to re-
main under present terms of service
and present authority, but it is ex-
pressly declared that the imperial gov
eminent has no desire to exempt the
peace of Ireland from the ultimate con-
troll of the Irish legislative body. Pro-
vision is made for pensioning criminal
law judges and making new appoint
ments by the Irish legislature, and as
the result of an elaborate financial cal
culation, the Irish share of the impe-
rial burdens is placed at the ratio of one
to fourteen.
Immediately after Mr.. Gladstone
finished his speech, Mr.. Trevelyan,
who recently resigned from the cabinet,
said he could never consent to such a
scheme as Mr.. Gladstone had proposed.
AS an alternative scheme, Mr. Ire
velyan said he would propose that the
execution of the law and the MAIN
tenance of order should be maintained in
the hands of the central government.
Then he would propose the creation of
certain local bodies, which should be
composed of members freely elected.
These bodies should be entrusted with,
and held responsible for, many of the
subordinate functions of government,
such as providing for education, super
intending the details of local govern
ment, providing for the relief of the
poor, and so forth.
Mr.. Parnell objected to Mr.. Trevel-
vans plan as unsatisfactory, and
pointed out some defects in Mr.. Glad
stones scheme which he hoped would
be remedied. One of these was to be
found in the financial proposals of the
bill, which he regarded as very I'M
favorable to Ireland, especially in re-
gard to the Irish tribute to the impe-
rial exchequer. He also complained of
the proposition relative to the two or
ders intended to constitute the Irish
parliament, on the ground that the first
order, consisting of peers not subject
to the influence of the popular vote,
would have the power of hanging up
measures demanded by the people and
their representatives for two or three
years. On the whole, however, apart
from these defects, he believed the
measure would be cheerfully accepted
by the Irish people and their represent
atives as satisfactory solution of the
lOng-standing dispute between the two
countries, and as tending to prosperity
and peace in Ireland and to satisfaction
in England.
Mr.. Plunkett, conservative member
for Dublin University, opposed the bill
and predicted that it could not be
passed. On Friday the debate was re-
sumed, when Mr.. Chamberlin (radicaD
stated four objections to the home-rule
scheme. The first was to the exclusion
of the Irish members from Westmins-
ter; the second was to the right of i'm
perial taxation; the third to the sur
render of the appointment of judges
and magistrates; and, finally, he OBJ
jected to the supreme authority given
to the Irish parliament in matters not
specially excluded from its authority.
The Marquis of Harrington QiberaD
said the house of commons had no
moral right to initiate legislation of
which the constituencies had not been
informed when the members were
elected. He could not believe that the
people of England would consent to the
loyal minority in Ireland being handed
over to the majority without more
effectual and more adequate protection
than was afforded by the provisions of
this bill. Mr.. Healey made a caustic
reply to Mr.. Chamberlin's speech Sir
John Lubbock QiberaD said the success
of the proposed measure would be the
dsmemberment of the empire. John