The morning call., 1893-02-19
TEXT OF THE BILL.
The Measure Upon Which Gladstone
Has Staked All.

| Legislature consisting OIL ner Majesty, tne
4 Queen, and two houses "a Legislative
| Council and a Legislative Assembly. Sub
| ject to the restrictions mentioned in the act,
the Irish Legislature is given power to
| make laws for the government of Ireland
! in respect to matters exclusively relating to
/ that country. 1t shall not have power to
make laws respecting the following mat
ters The status or d gnity of the crown or
the succession to the crown or regency
| Lord Lieutenant as representative Of the
crown; making peace or war; matters
arising from state of war: naval or mill
tary forces or defense Of the realm; treaties
or other relations with foreign states or rea-
tions between different parts of her Males
| tvs dominions, or offeDses connected with
such treaties; dignities or titles of honor;
treason or treason felony; al enaton or
naturalization; trade outside of Ireland; !;
quarantine or navigation save on in
land waters; local health or harbor
| regulations; beacons lighthouses, or
sea marks, except where, consistent with
the general act of Parliament. they may be
constructed or maintained by local authority; /;
coinage. legal tender, standard weights or
measures. trademarks. merchandise marks,
copyrights or patent rights; making any
! law respecting the establishment or endow-
ment of religion or prohibiting the free
! exercise thereof; of imposing any disability
| or comforting any privileges on account of
| religious belief or abrOgating or preju-
| dicially affecting the right to establish or
maintain any place of UNCONVENTIONAL edu-
| cation or any UNCONVENTIONAL institution of
charity, or prejudicially affecting the right
| of any child attending q school receiving
| public money without attending religious
| instruction at school; or whereby any per-
| son may be deprived of life, liberty or
property without due process Of law, or
whereby private property is taken without
| just compensation. or whereby any existing
corporation, incorporated by royal charter
or act of Parliament, not being corpora
tion raising for public purposes taxes, rates.
| dues or tolls, or administering funds so
/ raised, may, unless the consent of her
! Majesty first be obtained on the address
| from the Irish Legislature. be deprived OF
! its rights, privileges or property without due
process Of law; or whereby any inhabitant
be deprived of equal rights; public sea
fisheries. Ali laws made in contrayen ton
of the above shall be void.
Executive power shall continue to be
vested in the Queen through the Lord Lieu
tenant. with power to summon. prorogue
and dissolve the irish Legislature. There
shall be an Executive Committee or Privy
Council in Ireland to aid and advise the
| Government, to be named by the Queen.
The Lord Lieutenant is to have the power
to veto any acts of the Legislature.
The Legislative Council is to consist Of
forty-eight Councillors, TO be elected from
constituencies according to the schedule
accompanying the act. Every person shall
be entitled to vote for members Of the Coun-
ell who WINS or occupies land or a tenement
! Of the value of more than $50. The term of
Office of the Councillors is to be eight years,
| not affected by dissolution. Half of the
! Councillors are to retire every fourth year
| The Legislative Assembly shall consist of
member returned by existing parliamentary
constituencies, 10 continue in office for FIVE
| years, unless sooner dissolved. After six
years from the passage Of the act the Irish
Legislature may alter qualifications Of
| electors and constituencies.
If the Legislative Assembly passes any
! bill and the Legislative Council rejectsit
and If. after two years. the Legislative
Assembly again passes it. then it shall be
| submitted to the joint vote of the two
houses, and be adopted or rejected by
majority of such joint vote.
The present Parliamentary constituencies,
until otherwise provided, shall continue to
elect members to Parliament, but the Dub
| lin University shall cease to return a MEM
| Der.
The existing divisions of constituencies.
save as provided by the schedule, are to be
| abolished Irish peers, lords and members
| of the House of Commons for Irish con-
stituences are not entitled to deliberate or
vote on any bill or motion. the operation of
which is confined 10 Great Britain, or rais-
ing any tax not to be raised in Ireland.
The election laws and laws relating to the
| qualifications of Parliamentary electors, so
| far as they relate to Parliamentary elec-
tions. shall not be altered by the Irish Leg
! islature, though that body may deal with
any officers concerned with the issue of
writs of election, though the Queen may in
| council arrange for issue of such wris.
There shall be an Irish exchequer and
! consolidated fund separate from the United
Kingdom. Customs duties and excise and
postage imposed by Parliament are subject
to the provisions of this act. The IRISH
| Legislature may impose other taxes and
| all matters relating to taxes in Ireland ana
the management and collection thereof shall
be regulated by an IRISH act. provided that
the duties and customs he regulated, col
| ected and paid into the exchequer Of the
| United Kingdom as heretofore.
All public revenues in Ireland shall be
| paid into the Irish exchequer aud form
consolidated fund. to be appropriated to the
| public service of Ireland by an Irish act. II
the excise duties increase above the present
! rates the excess shall be paid 20 the United
| Kingdom. II reduced, the deficiency shall
| be paid from the exrhequer of the United
| Kingdom into the Irish exehequer.
The hereditary revenues of the crown In
Ireland shall continue during the life of the
| present Majesty, the amount payable from
them into the excheqUer to be paid into the
| Irish exchequer. Neither country shall col
/ lect income tax on business carried on in
| the other Ireland Is to be compensated for
income taxes on irish securities held by resi-
dents in Great Britain.
The civil charges for the government OF
| Ireland are to be borne by Ireland. After
| fifteen years advaneements for contribu-
| ti0ns by ireland to the imperial Liabilities
and expenditures and otherwise financial
relations with Ireland may be revised in
| pursuance of an address from the House of
Commons to the Irish Assembly.
1ne bill prov des for the establishment,
| under the direction OF the treasury OF all ac-
count referred to in this act as the treas
| ury account OF Ireland" There shall be
| paid into such account all sums payable
from the Irish eXchequer to the exchequer
! of the United Kingdom, or from tile latter
TO the former So far as the money stand
Ing on the account IS sufficient for the pur-
pose of meeting such sums. the treasury,
| out of the customs revenues collected in
Ireland. and the Irish Government ont of
any public revenues of Ireland. may direct
J the money to be paid into the treasury ac-
count of Ireland. instead of into the ex-
chequer and any surplus standing on the
| accnunt of the cradit of aither exchennar