Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-22
MIR. olndlstone's Home Rule Bill.

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of speculation, and even of newspaper
controversy, in this country as well as
In Great Britain and Ireland. Within
the past two or three weeks this interest
has been enliyened, and rendered rather
diverting than otherwise to reasonably
well-informed readers by the discussion
TO which certain alleged Home Rule
proposals attributed to Mr.. Gladstone
and first printed in the Baltimore Sun
have given rise. This publication was
30 quickly taken up, discredited, dis.
sected, shown to be inconsistent, I'M
tenable and untrustworthy, and in short
torn to pieces, that it may be said to
have hardly survived long enough to at
tract the serious attention of the read
ing public But the interest in the thing
itself-the Home Rule legislation that
Mr.. Gladstone will formulate and pro-
pose-remains undiminished in the
United States, while it is naturally
subject Of absorbing concern to the
people of Great Britain and Ireland.
One of the evidences of this feeling
abroad, although mainly partisan in its
character, is the frequency and the ILL
concealed anxiety with which Conserva-
tive journals and writer's are calling
upon Mr. Gladstone to define his posi-
! ton, and the complaints of his reticencc
in which they indulge. For long time
this reticence has been one Of the
strongest arguments used by Mr.. Glad
stones opponents in combating the re-
turn of Gladstonan and Home Rule
majority in the House of Commons.
But there is a proverb about chose who
will not see" which may have some APP
plication here. Inst spring, one of Mr..
Gladstone's lieutenants in the old and
in the present House of Commons-and
who had also been one of his lieutenants
before the election of a Conservative
majority in 1SS6-after good deal Of
consultation with the leaders Of the
Irish Home Rule party, both Parnellitcs
and anti-Parnellites, and with the yir-
tual knowledge and consent of Mr.
Gladstone, if not with his specific ap-
proyal-made public the following pro-
gramme, which, we believe, will be
found very near what will be included
in Mr.. Gladstone's Home Rule bill when
he gets ready to present one:
My sketch Of Home Rule may be stat "a
thus; /. To create minor Irish paria-
ment by statute of the Imperial Parit-
ment, which would ever possess and could
not be Invested of the power and the right
at any time to amend or repeal that statute
nltOupthpr and that mn In
supreme, besides possessing all its present
powers over ireland and any portion Of
the British Empire as the Imperial Parlia-
Inent on imperial questions. .. That
while the statutory Irish Parliament exists
~ shall have supreme and sole control over
all purely Irish affairs committed to it bv
statute, subject to the constitutional veto
of the crown 3. That the Imperial Parlia.
ment shall not review, sanction or repeal
individual acts of the Irish Parliament
but should acts of ultra tirtS be committed
by the statutory Parliament i'll the opinion
OF the Imperial Parliament, such questions
Shnll be submitted to some supreme court
Of judges nominated in the bill as an i'm.
partial judicial tribunal to review such
acts and pronounce whether they are Wtya
tTreS or not. y perfect example of this
procedure is afforded BY the United States
" should, in the opinion Of the lrisE
Parliament, the Imperial Parliament tres
pass upon the rights of the statutory
Parliament it had created. in like manner
the question would be determined by Iii.
supreme court. 4. That all power shouil
be excluded from the statutory lrisl
Parliament to cndOw any religion!
body or support specially any particulU
religious belief Or teaching in school. .
\ That power be excluded 10 impose customs
duties or any regulation to Interfere witt
the, principle Of free trade, 6. That tn
incidence OF taxation shall follow the prinCi
pie adopted i'll Great Britain. I. Tn