The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-11-30
Mr. Gladstone's Scheme for Doing JUS.
tice to Ireland Ii Out.
lined.
The New York Times Claims to Have
Authentic INFORMATION as to the
General Features.
Four Separate Provinces With Pow.
ers Similar to Those or States In
This Country.

NEW York, Nov. 3U.--The Times
prints complete outline of what it
purports TO be the plan Mr.. Gladstone
proposes to offer TO the British house of
commons as solution of the problem of
Ireland's self government, which has con-
fronted the English government for SO
many years. The details as they are
presented, The Times says, may be ac-
cepted as authentic. They were pub
lished Monday in the Baltimore Sun as
the views of j leading thinker" The
Times has received assurance that they
are Mr.. Gladstoue's ideas and that he
will submit them them in the home rule
bill which he is now framing. This as
surance comes through an autograph
letter written by gentleman who Is
very close to the prime minister. The
plan is substantially as follows:
Let the measure make of Ireland a
dominion divided into four provinces,
viz: Ulster, Munster, Connaught and
Leinster. Let every province have its
own house OF representatives, elected by
manhood suffrage and equal electoral
districts, and let each house OF repre-
sentatives elect number (proportioned
to the population of the province) of life
senator's to meet in Dublin and there
constitute an Irish senate.
Let each province have governor APP
pointed by the crown, and let the gov
ernor OF Leinster be also the president
of the Irish senate.
Let ali the acts OF provincial parlia-
ment have the full power Of the govern
ment of an American state, and let the
Irish senate have the full powers of the
United States federal government, with
the following limitations:
A.-No armed forces, fortresses,
arsenals to be created or maintained
other than such as may be appointed by
the imperial parliament of Great
Britain and Ireland.
B.-No relations with foreign powers
TO be established except as arranged by
the imperial parliament.
C.-No taxes to be imposed upon COM
merce between Ireland and any other
British country.
D.--No legislation, be it either senate
or provincial parliament, to take place
in violation of personal liberty, or per-
sonal freedom, or religious belief and
thought, or in coniscation Of private
property.
E.-The constitutionality or otherwise
of any legislation. whether by the Irish
senate or any provincial parliament, to
be subject to the adjudication of the
judicial committee of the privy council
F.-The sovereignty of the crown to
be maintained and any decision OF the
crown in council to be enforced by war
rant addressed to the governor of the
province.
Let Ireland be represented in the inn
perial parliament by say eighty members
twenty being elected by the people of
each province.
This measure of home rule would dis
pose of the before mentioned objections.
Eugene Kelly, the banker, who has
probably done more for home rule In a
practical way than any other man in
America, was very outspoken in his APP
prevail Of Gladstone's proposed home
rule measure. After studying the "details
very carefully, he said: "If these are
really Mr.. Gladstone's ideas think the
Irish should accept them. His heart
has been In this movement for great
many years, and we may all rest as
snred that he will offer the best he can"
Ex-Mayor Grace, who is one Of the
representative Irishmen OF America,
condemned the property plan from be-
ginning to end.
Other prominent Irishmen, such as
Judge NJ j. OBrien, j. j. O'Donahue,
DIR. o. 8. Emmett and Miles M. O'Brien,
either declined to express an opinion, or
gave guarded approval of the scheme.