The Irish standard., 1893-03-18
u HONOR o. IRIIlAN Is PATRON SAINT.

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Lides that the separate q ates, il The fisl
4 instance, possessed 4 ll the powers and
the federal eovernmen has only such
! powers asS have been ce,ied q ths
!; states, while ia tareatt Britair and IRE
4 land III IS claimed that the 1pperial gov
eminent iagthe fountain sof power, and
1 this bilIaims 10 cede part 81 tos re-
Hand; but you vii lsee al once that this "a
ia ot no pr ctical Importance; the
great point being that Ireland should
have certain re hts, no matter where they
come from.
Nov, as. / have said, the present bill
|giyes TO ireland nearly the Same rights
las are possessed BY our states. She is
giyen.Sa parliamen Mt. consisting Yof i've
houses, al upper body kno wn as the q 4A'g,-
|islative Council, Is consist of 48 nie1n-
bers, aud q lower house known az. the
the Legislative Assembly t. CONSIST q !, OF II
1O3 members. No person can vote for =
member Of the y PIPER house except such 4
as own property to the value B Of q 20 %
pounds and upwards; the mem bers ct
the lower house are the same in number
las the present Irish members OF parlia-
ment and are elected by the same vote
/ This plan Of having the members ct
! the upper house elected By 9 select CON |:
stituency does not, OF curse, gibe with
Tour American ideas, but even with US
1 the United States senators are not elect
ed directly by the people, but by the
| Legislature ot each state. Aud it is pro-
|ivided in the bill that in case any law
passed by one house is rejct'esdt
Thy the i, q other is again: passed
! the FIRST hos Sc, after a lapse
| Of two years, or when5a dissol ntion of
parliament has taken place, between::thl &
first and second passage Of the bin J, il it
is again rejected, that the two houses
must meet and vote upon the meas sure; il
4 joint session so thai ths enforcement Of
| the popular will in Ireland is practically
insured. !ss V n hi ..55 .,ss On s@
sasSS The Irish legislature is given practi-
cally power TO legislate on all matters
pertaining to ireland except matters re-
latlng to the crown, the making OF peace
or war, foreign relations, dignitties i and
titles OF honor, treason, naturalization,
| foreign tradeor What We call tariff, coin
age, n patent rights, trade marks, etc.
These limitations are almost identical
! with the Limitations placed upon each
state Of this Union By the constitution
Of the. United States and guarantee to
4 Ireland absolute Home Rule. III he Fl n. "
Then there are in this bill \. some
further limitations, the tenor OF which,
we id this country *charact erizze as the
iibill Of rights, namely, providing that
private property shall not be taken for
public use without just comp ensation,
securing absolute relig ious freedo and u
doing away with all disabilities on ac-
count Of igious helief. s A .4555 ". .81s
One. can rot help being impressed
while reading this measure with the sim
ilarity 81 some 81 its pro visions and those
found in the constitution of the United
4 States, and indeed, Mr.. Glade tonein his
magn ii6cent speech, when presenting this
bin to the house OF com Eaons, made no
Isecret OF the fact that he had been in
debted to this country for someof h.s
ideas. .ts:5$s$ t5s 5 ..:a} .;5
| tas { will not weary you with q recital Of
the ether pecifcations OF the BILL. 4. It
4 provides, and justly anu fairly I think,
for the grad dual withdrawal OF the royal
4 conatahularyt and the substitution in it's
place Of the ordinary ci VII police force:
/ for. the same gradual read ns5ment ot
the judicial system sf ireland to meet
| the neWscond ition OF affairs. and for the
1 retention Of a proper and far. number Of
members from ireland in the imperial
[ parliament aud what to my mind IS 9
very proper condi tion, that they shall
lhayA no vote in any mRtter il which Ire
Hand has nc interest. 5l5ss ts s.#
! 1 Such, ladies and ntlemen, IS an inn
| perfect sketch Of what might been CON
sidersd aome of the leading features 1T
the Home Rule bill introduced 81 MI.
Gladstone one month ago doday; and
such is tbs bill Z 5bslieye which viii soon
become law ss.ss .ss
Picture 70 yourse1 Ives the scene when
IGlad stone, the foremost statesa1a1 %
llhis age, tho premier 3of England and The
header of the ;House of Commons, speak
ling not only The 3 riitish parliamenl
HUT to- the whole world told them that
England had not faith Wit ireland;
THAT u he had nisgoyerned Ir roland and
THAT the time had come wI,sn England
mist give Irelsnd SONS Just MEASURE q
her peakiDg ~ The Irlsh e
i ment before the mi he slitl s. t WI
Ilteemii,ng With elo4 ues,pce md atesnan:
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