Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-30

Parliament will reassemble tomorrow.
The throne address was submitted to the
queen at Osborne House Saturday by the
secretary of state for war, Mr.. Henry Campbell
Zimmerman.
II the document is approved it will be read at
the first session and then one Of the most in
teresting political periods known in England
since the passage of the corn laws will be in
augurated.
Home rule for Ireland will be the chief topic.
This means a small need of justice for a country
which has been oppressed and misruled worse
than Poland
Lord Salisbury has made up his mind to
oppose it in every possible way in the upper
house, and his real coadjutor in the commons
will be Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, who, perhaps,
begrudge the relief which Gladstone's scheme
proposes for the Irish people.
Mr.. Gladstone will be able to take care OF the
bill Tor time in the lower house, and Lord
Kimberly, president OF the council and secre-
tary Of state for India will watch it in the lords
CONTEST IN THE LORDS.
Unfortunately, Kimberly is not a match for
Salisbury. The ex-premier is q powerful de-
batter, a cunning wire puller and fighter who
never admits defeat until his antagonist has him
literally by the throat. Kimberly is eloquent.
but he is not politician in the sense that
Salisbury is.
Present arrangements are that Mr.. Gladstone
will personally present the home rule bill to the
commons. accompanied by the usual explana-
tory address.
The measure will grant an Irish parliament,
control OF the constabulary. control Of taxation,
under guarantees that Ireland will supply about
one-twentieth OF the imperial budget, but not
an autonomy similar to that enjoyed by Can
ada. Irish representative peers will sit in the
imperial parliament.
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy has been selected as
chairman of the Irish party during the session.
The whips will be Sir Thomas Esmonde and
Mr. John Deasy, and Arthur O'Connor and
Daniel Sullivan will be secretaries.
BIG FIGHT IMMINENT.
Everything however, portends desperate
struggle. With the aristocracy and landed i'll
terests, as we'll as royalty, secretly in OPPOSE
ton, Mr.. Gladstone has tine greatest fight of his
life before him.
With Mr.. Balfour as tory leader in the COM
mons, Mr.. Gladstone is assured of the support
OF the Parnellite wing of the Irish representa-
ton. for they will never agree to anything that
the ex-chef secretary wants. Balfour is the
best hated man IN public life at this moment.
Balfour's thunder will be stolen to some ex-
tent by the fact that Gladstone will insist on
safeguarding the royal veto prerogative on i'm
portant questions passed by the parliament on
College Green. Mr.. William o Brien is said to
be opposed to this clause in the bill and will
seek to have it rejected. He is said to be the
only member from Ireland who will object to it.
Apropos of Mr. O'Brien. it may be said that
his fatner- in-law, Banker Raffalovitch, has
offered to pay the costs awarded to Lord Sails
bury In the Bolton libel suits in order to avert
the bankruptcy Of O'Brien, which will disqualify
him for the commons. Raffalovitch has already
PAID Lord Salisbury's original claim.
WHAT THE BILL CONTAINS.
synopsis of the act has been given out.
which declares that there shall be established a
legislature consisting of the queen and an Irish
Legislative body, empowered to make. amend
and repeal laws for the peace, order and good
government of Ireland.
The power to enact laws on the following
subjects is retained by the imperial parliament:
The status or dignity OF the crown the succession
The or ths s xnn t war or
military or nsva! forces or the defense Of the realm.
thS relations between the various parts of her ma
ofenses against the law of nations. or ofenses com
De made between her ad anS fo OF 10
Onenses committed on the high seas. treason alien
sEs or naturalization trade navigation or quaFa
Inc postal and telegraph SERVICE except as here
sion o; letters and Iel9Erams in Ireland beaeons.
The coinage, the value of foreign money legal Ten
der weights and measures.
IRISH PARLIAMENT REsTRICrEp.
The Irish legislature is restricted from pass
ing any law respecting the establishment of
religion, Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
or comforting any privilege or imposing any
disability on account of religious BELIEF
Itcannot impair, without either the leave of her
majesty in council first obtained on an address
presented by the legislative body of Ireland. or
the consent OF the corporation interested the
rights. property or privileges of any existing
corporation Incorporated by royal charter or
local and general act of parliament or from
enacting any legislation changing the terms of
the home rule act. except in so far as the act is
declared to be alterable by the Irish legislature
ROYAL VETO CLAUSE.
The queen retains the same prerogatives with
respect to summoning, proroguing and dis
solving the irish legislative body as she has
with respect to the imperial parliament. The
Irish Legislative body can continue for five
years and no longer from the day on which it
is appointed to meet.
The executive government Of Ireland is to
continue vested Ill her majesty and to be car
ried on by the lord lieutenant, with the aid of
such officers and such council az to her majesty
may from time to time seem tit
Subject to any instructions which may from
time to time be given by her majesty the lord
lieutenant shall give withhold tho consent of
her majesty to bills passed by the legislative
body and shall exercise the prerogatives of her
majesty in summoning, proroguing and dis
solving the Irish legislative body and any pre-
negatives the exercise of which may be dele
gated to him by her majesty.
TWO HOUSES IN DUBLIN.
The bill of 1898 provides that the legislative
body shall consist OF first and second order
but instead of providing that the orders shall
deliberate together. as in the bill of 1886. it
provides that they shall sit and vote separately,
TINS constituting two distinct houses of the
Legislature.
II the result of the voting brings the two
orders into collision then the question at issue
is to be referred to joint committee OF both
houses. II the question still remains unde-
cided. through inability to agree. then the
question at issue may be referred to the people.
The new bill thus provides for popular refer
endum.
The tenth clause substantially provides. as
in 1856. that the upper house, first order
shall include 103 members, IS elective and IS
peerage members.
The elective members are to be possessed of
property; il real estate, or partly real and
personal bringing in an income Of at least
f200 year; or, if only personal, then bringing
the same income, or being of the capital value
Of "a 900 or upward. free OF all charges.
Ireland is to be divided into two electoral
districts for the first order. each elector to be
an owner or occupier of some land or tenement
within the district Of a net annual value Of .s25
| or upward