The Irish standard., 1892-12-10
THE HOME RULE BILL.

THE HOME RULE BILL.
Last week bogus Home Rule bill,
purporting to be an outline of the one to
be proposed by Gladstone for Ireland,
appeared in the Baltimore Sun and was
published the following day in full by
the New York Times. This scheme would
give Ireland four provincial parliaments:
The mem bers of each parliament would
be elected by manhood suffrage and
equal electoral districts, and each house
of representatives would cleo a number
OF senators for life to meet ia Dublin and
there constitute an Irish senate. Each
province would have governor ap-
pointed by the crown, and the governor
of Leinster would be the president of the
Irish senate. The provincial parllaments
would have che full powers of the Ameri-
can state legislatures, and the Irish SEN
ate would have the full powers of the
United States federal government, ex-
cept that it could pass no measures with
out the sanction of the imperial parlia-
ment in London, and the constitutional
ity of any legislation by the provincial
and Dublin parliaments would be sub
mitted to the privy council. The sover-
eighty of the crown would be maintained,
and any decision of the crown would be
enforced by warrant addressed to the
governor Of each province. No relations
with foreign powers could be established
except as arranged by the imperial par
lament, and no duties could be imposed
upon commercial articles to or from Ire
land and any other British country. The
plan as here given is ''fake' and would
be rejected with ecorn by the Irish peo-
pie and their representatives in the Brit
ish parliament. It is similar to the
scheme proposed by Joseph Chamberlain
and would not satisfy the aspirations of
the Irish people at home or abroad. The
Irish Home Rule party will accept no
measure Of self government that will not
give them full control over local affairs.
All that relates to local business must
be delegated to the Irish parliament, and
all questions of imperial policy will be
left to the imperial government. ME-.
Parnell, during the debate on the Home
Rule bill Of 1886, declared chat the Irish
people would be content to have par
lament wholly subordinate to the West
Minister parliament, and that they did
not expect parliament possessing CO.
ordinate powers like Grattan's. The
Irish people will be satisfied with colo
NAL parliament like that of Canada, or a
parliament which bears the same relation
to that in London that the legislature
and senate of every American state bear
to the national congress in Washington
Anything less would be a mockery, a de-
fusion and snare.
| At the national convention held in
Dublin on Nov. IA, at which the leaders
of the Irish parliamentary party attended,
the following resolution was adopted:
| That the efforts and sacrifices made by
the people of Ireland to enable the Lib
eral party to carry their Home Rule pol.
icy into effect impose on the present
government special corresponding obi
CATION to proceed with diligence, vigor
and resolution in the fulfllment of their
pledges to Ireland, and that the conven-
ton relies upon the national represent
atives to promote such due fulfil]ment
by securing the immediate introduction
and steady prosecution of bill convey
ing to Ireland, upon equitable conditions,
the legislative and executive control and
management of exclusively Irish affairs.
In speaking to the resolution, I. P.
O'Connor said: 1--WE hold that the Lib.
eral party is bound to give Ireland not
merely parliament, but parliament
worthy of the acceptance of Irish nation
atty. We hold further that the Liberal
party is bound to put the measure of Civ
ing Ireland a worthy, dignifed and an
efficient parliament in the very forefront
of it's measures proposed to the imperial
parliament; that it is bound to put that
measure in the forefront not merely in
the coming session, but in all and every
succeeding session and in all and every
succeeding parliament until that measure
has passed into law"
Thomas Sexton said: "When the proper
time arrives we shall be ready to repre-
sent to the Liberal government the views,
the wants and the wishes of Ireland upon
every part of the subject concerned in
the Home Rule bill. We ehall claim
from the Liberal government that such
v,aws shall he taken into consideration