The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-02-14
Provisions of the Bill.

This bill respects and maintains these
rights OF sovereignty equally throughout
the entire range of the three kingdoms.
Then the bill constitutes the Irish leRisla-
ture Power Is granted to the Irish legis.
lature, which consists. first of all, of
legislative council, secondly of legisla,
tive assembly empowered to make law,
for the peace. order and good government
OF Ireland In respect to matter exclusively
relating to Ireland or to part thereof,
The subjects of peace and war, public de.
Tense, treaty and foreign relations, ,digni-
ties, titles, law and treason do not belong
to the Irish Ii sislature, The law of alien
age does not belong to it, nor everything
that belongs to external trade-the coinage
and other subsidiary subjects Other in
capacities are imposed similar to these
contained In the bill of 1888 These pro.
vided for the security OF religious freedom.
the safeguard of education and for the Sc
curity of personal freedom, in which VIC
endeavored to borrow one of the modern
amendments to the American constitution.
We retain the viccroyalty of Ireland
but we divest it OF the party character
heretofore borne by making the appoint
ment run six years, subject to the revok-
ing power of the crown. Then, also the
post is freed from all religious disability.
Then comes a clause providing for the full
devolution of executive power from the
sovereign upon the viceroy Then comes
an important provision for the appoint
ment of an executive commtte of the privy
council of Ireland. We propose to make
this an executive council There shall also
be a legislative council of 103 members
and we fix the term at five years These 1903
members must be elected for Irish legisla-
five htrsfupga hp in Iral
We leave the constituency as 1t Is now.
1--WE propose an elective council. believ-
ing it TO be the only form wherein we can
give any great force to the vitality of the
institution. We propose to fix the num-
ber at forty eight, with an eight years
term of office, the term of the popular as
sembly being lesser. We then constitute
n new constituency, The council constit-
uency must in the first place be associated
with a ratiable value of twenty pounds,
whereby to secure an aggregate constit-
uency approaching 170o 900 persons, includ-
ing owners as well as cccupiers, but sub.
ject to provision that no owner or ee-
eupier has vote in more than one CON
stituency.
1.-TWO exchenuer judges shall be ap-
pointed under the authority of the crown
mainly for financial business. Besides the
eXchequer judge il is provided that for six
years all judges shall be appointed as now.
We do not reserve for the imperial parla-
ment the power to fix emoluments These
will be fixed in Ireland, aud the effect will
be to establish a joint control of these ap-
pointments. The month of September is
probably the most convenient month for
the assembly to meet. Therefore u clause
provides that it shall meet on the first
Tuesday in September.
I've propose u gradual reduction of the
constabulary, and the ultimate dissolution
or disappearance of that force. 1t Is CON
templated thet they will be replaced by a
force owing existence to the Irish author
tiles in local areas"
Mr.. Gladstone then discussed the aues-
ton of Irish representation in the imperial
parliament. explains that the bill provides
for eighty Irish members in that body, and
proceeds to discuss the question of reve-
nues explaining that the bill provides for
the collection of all revenues in ireland by
local rather than federal authority.
Mr.. Gladstone concluded rs follows:
81 never will and never can be party TO
bequeathing to my country the contin-
uancc OF this heritage OF discord, which
has been handed down from generation to
generation-this heritage of discord with
all the evils that follow in its train Let
the dead bury their dead, and cast behind
you former rccollections of evils Cherish,
love and sustain one another through all
the vicissitudes of human affairs in times
that are to come
When the cheering had died out Sir Ed
ward Clarke, who was attorney general
under the Salisbury administration, CON
graduated Mr.. Gladstone on the magniii-
cent physical effort which he had Just
made, and then proceeded to enlarge on
the proposals of the bill.
Members then thronged ont in the lob
bies, whore g. speech was informally dis
elssed with t-rcat animation The Glad
stonian Liberals were disposed to regard it
as a eonciliathrg, we'll balanced and peace
making measure, and the anti Panellite
members favored the bill as a whole All
that1he Tories would say for the new bill
wss that it was more s,bgacious and better
drawn than that of 1856, The Liberal
unioniats would not make even this favor
able admission, declaring everywhere that
il must inevitably meet the fate Of lis pre-.
dccessors. Meantime, in the house, Col
onel Saunderson. conservative, was speak
lug vehemeatly against any and every
plan of home rule