The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-19

on eha Irish consolidated fund, Is the repay.
ment to the United Kingdom OF sums paid to
meet the dividends or sinking fund on the
guaranteed land stock under the purchase OF
land In the Ireland act OF 1891, and the lord
lieutenant II empowered. on receiving notice
from any comptroller and suditor general OF the
United Kingdom that any such charge II due, to
order. without countersignature, tho payment
OF that amount from the Irish exchequsr. and
until that amount II paid no other payment 10
to be made out of the Irish excheQuer wharso-
ever for any purpose
Then follow the various classes OF
charges against the Irish exchequer in
their order of procedure. Among other
things it 10 provided:
Extinct charges on church property in Ire
land shall. SO far - not paid out OF said prop
erty, Be charged on the Irish consolidated fund.
Among the charges guaranteed BY the treasury
% far - not paid shall be paid out OF the ex-
cheQuer Of the United Kingdom, subject to the
existing charges thereon. Said church property
shall belong to the Irish government and be
managed and disposed of as admitted oy the
lIish act
Bills appropriating any parts OF the public
revenues or for imposing . tax shall originate
in the legislative assembly. II is not to be law
full for any appropriation to be made for any
purpose, OF from any part OF the public revenue
OF Ireland, or from any tax. except In pursuance
of the recommendation OF the lori lieutenant OF
the session wherein such measure 10 proposed.
Two judges of the supreme court OF the island
shall be excheQuer judges, to be appointed
under the great seal OF the United Kingdom and
their salaries are to be paid out OF the consol-
idated fund of the United Kingdam. The act
defines their duties at great length. Their decis-
ion will be subject to an appeal to the queen in
council. and not to any other tribunal aud the
question a. to the powers OF the Irish legislature
may be referred at once to the queen in council,
to be determined at once by the judicial COM
mittee of the privy council
The balance of the bill covers. on the
lines indicated by Gladstone in his speech
and summary of the act, these points and
features:
The postal and telegraph service arc to be
turned over to the Irish government; the post
master general 10 to retain the revenues to pay
expenses incurred in Ireland.
Religious belief shall not enter into the choice
of the lord lieutenant of Ireland, who shall hold
for six years
The present tenure of civil ONCE holds under
the new bill.
The royal constabulary and Dublin police
forces are to die out by lack OF new appoint
ments, Gladstone's act making them subject to
restricted amendment by the Irish legislature.
The supreme court judges arc, for six years, to
be created by royal warrant
The Irish Legislature shall meet on the first
Tuesday in September, 1891 This act is tn be-
come fully operative no later than seven months
after that date.
Then follow two schedules. The first
relates to the appointment OF number of
councillors by counties. boroughs and con-
stituencies to the legislative council. No
constituency has more than three nor less
than one representative. The total sit
tings are to be forty-eight in the council
The second schedule apportions by
borOughs and counties the number of
members to the house of commons, Cork
being accorded five members, the highest
number to any one constituency. There
are to be eighty sittings in the house of
commons.
Then follow these provisions:
Nothing in the act shall affect bills relating to
divorce or marriage. The local authorizes of
any county or borough shall not borrow money
without the special authority of the Irish legis-
ture or the sanction of the proper department Of
the Irish government. During three years
from the passage of the act. and If
parliament is then sitting, until the end of that
session OF parliament, the Irish legislature shall
not pass any act respecting the relations of
landlord and tenant, or the sale, purchase
or letting of land generally, except for
Improvements or local undertaking.. Dur
ing six years from the passage of
the act, the appointment Of judges of the su-
prsme court or auy other superior court In Ire
land, other than the ekckeQper judges, shall be
made In pursuance ofa warrant from the queen.
The remainder of the bill consists of an
elaborate mass of detail regarding the
finance, liabilities and expenditures, the
duties of the chief baron of the exchequer,
the legislative assembly, etc.