The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29
.NEV Irish HONERUIEBILL.
A Legislature to Be Established
in Ireland.
TWO DISTINCT HOUSES.
Annual Contributions are Reduced One
Hall From the Former Bill.
A New Clause In the Measure Which
Gives the Crown the Right to Veto
An Bills of the Irish
Legislature.

LONDON, Jan. 2S.-FoIlowing is a
synopsis of the new Irish home rule bill:
1t declares there shall be established in
Ireland legislature consisting of a
legislature consisting of q queen and an
Irish legislative body empowered to
make, amend and repeal laws for the
peace, order and good government OF
Ireland. Power to enact laws on num-
Der OF subjects concerning the kingdom
at large IS retained by the imperial parlia-
ment. sub-clause retains to the
imperial parliament control for five years
over land legislation. The Irish legisla-
ture is restricted from passing any laws
respecting the establishment of religion.
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
or imposing any privilege or con-
ferring any disability on account
OF religious belief; or fmpairing
without either leave of Her Majesty in
council OF consent of the corporation in
terested, the rights OF property or privi-
leges of any existing corporation in
corpOrated by royal charter or general act
| OF parliament, or from enacting any legis-
| latlon changing the terms of the Home
Rule act, except so far as the act is de-
clared to be alterabIe by the Irish Iegisla-
ture- The queen retains the same
perogatives with respect to the Irish legis-
| latiVe body as the imperial parliament.
The Irish legislative body can continue
five years and no longer from the day it is
appointed to meet. The executive gov
eminent of Ireland Will continue to be
vested in Her Majesty and be carried on
| by the lord lieutenant with the aid of
such officers and council as Her Majesty
may from time to time see fit.
The ninth clause OF the bill, relating to
the constitution of the Irish legislative
body, differs in one important respect
| from the bill of 1886. 1t provides that the
! Legislative body shall consist of the first
and second order, but instead of deliber-
ating together, as in The bill of 1885, the
bill provides that they shall sit and vote
separately, thus constituting two dis
t1nct branches of the legislature. If the
result of voting brings the two orders
into collision, then the question at issue
is to be referred to joint committee of
both houses, and if 1t cannot agree the
question may be referred to the people.
( The new bill thus creates for popular
reference an upper house or first order,
to include 103 members, seVenty-fiYe
elective and twenty eight peerage
members. The elective members
are to be possessed of property
! bringing IN an income of at
| least &200 per year. The term Of elective
members OF the first order is ten years,
thirty seven or thirty to retire
every fifth year. The peers to be the
twenty eight Irish representatives OF the
peerage representation in the first order
to last for not longer than thirty years
from the appointed day of organization.
When the places OF all peerage members
be vacated, or filed by elective members,
dissolution of the legislative body does
not vacate the offices of members of the
first order.
The second Legislative body consists Of
204 members, to be chosen from existing
constituencies in Ireland two by each con
stituency with the exceptiOnlOf the city OF
Cork, which is divided in two divisions,
and two members are to be chosen from
each division. An important new clause
provides that 103 members OF the imperial
parliament may also sit in the Irish legis-
lative body, if elected thereto, as well as
IN the imperial parliament.
The annual contribution OF Ireland on
account of the national debt, army and
navy, imperial civil expenditures, royal
Irish constabulary, Dublin metropolitan
police and reduction of the national debt
is reduced to e., 301 900. This reduction
is exactly One-han from the bill of 1886,
which provided that Ireland should pay
ga, SOP, 900.
1t is made the duty Of the Irish legisla-
ture to impose all such taxes, duties and
imposts as may be necessary to raise SUI
f1cient revenue to meet all sums charged
for the time being on the Irish CONSOLE
dated fund. This fund is to meet adj
Vances towards the expenses of the Irish
government, debts incurred by the Irish
government, salaries of judges of any
court and all payments for Irish services
except the salary of lord ieutentants.
The Irish Land commission is to remain
in existence until all charges payable out
OF church property in Ireland, and guar
anteed by treasury, are fully paid. sub
ject to any existing charges on church
property. Such property shall belong to
the ri shgovernment. If the queen sig
nifies to the Irish legislature that state
of war exists, the Irish legislature may
make extra appropriations for the army
and navy and to aid in the defense OF the
realm.
II shall not be lawful for the Irish legis-
lative body to adopt or pass any measure
for raising, or the appropriation for any
purpose, of any part OF the public reye-
nues of Ireland, or any tax, duty or i'm
post. except in pursuance of recommends
ton from her majesty, signified through
the lord lieutenant. The exchequer divis-
ion of high Justice is to continue TO count
the exchequer for revenue purposes, and
any vacancy occurring in the court is to
be filed by her majesty on joint recon-
mendation of the lord lieutenant of Ire
land and the lord high chancellor of Great
Britain.
The Dublin metropolitan police are to
continue subject to the lord lieutenant for
five years or until the Irish administra-
ton will guarantee an adequate legal po-
lice system has been organized. The royal
Irish constabulary while it exists is to
continue subject to the control OF
the lord lieutenant, but the Irish
legislature may provide for the
establishment and maintenance of q pO-
lice force in counties end boroughs in
Ireland under control Of local authorities,
and arrangement may be made between
the treasury and Irish government for the
establishment and maintenance OF police
reserves.
There is an entirely new clause, %,
which gives the crown the right to veto
all bills of the Irish legislature and gives
Irish representative peers the right to sit
in the house of lords at Westminster and
vote on all imperial questions. The jude
ciarv will remain for five years under con-
troll of the imperial government and then
pass under control of the Irish govern
ment.