The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-14

| bear fair share of imperial expenditure
| l'Hear III lear rl There are three modes
in which this may be attained. The first
method is to lump the sum payment
/ adopted in 1886. Another method, is
what may simply be described as a
method of quotata, but the third method,
which one we adopt, is that of deducting
! from Irish revenues the amount due
England. We provide that the revenue
levied in Ireland shall be a revenue
really belonging to Ireland that is, a
revenue from goods consumed in Ireland.
win customs, there is a large debt due
from ireland to this country. l do not
know what the House consider the right
amount due to England, as judgments
might huctuate. But the amount is g. :
$4,000 yearly, and f60.000 allowed for col
lection, leaves se2,37O,O00 net. Through
rates of excise, and post and telegraph.
the rates will be a fixed amount. The
authority and whole control over them
Will be absolutely in the hands of Irish
officers.
we are assured we shall obtain from
ireland a fair share of assistance in a
great imperial emergency. l, myself. am
bound to say think there is very little
lear from trusting the patriotism and
llberallty of an Irish Legislature. TOppo-
sition cries of OH OH! and cheers from
members of the Government benches. I
Stinglness was never vice of the Irish
people, and if we look forward very
much l am afraid her suffering will be
que to generous eXtravagances rather
than meanness.
w men we come to state of war. we
nave TO look to three sources: customs.
excise and income tax. With regard to
customs, we propose to leave them in our
hands, so there can be no difficulty in
adapting contributions SO far as customs
are concerned. With regard to excise,
we have in view proposition to retain
considerable control in our hands. which
Will enable Great Britain to make sure of
having aid from ireland, if she thinks
such provision necessary.
The Irish balance-sheet stands TINS.
On the credit side would appear excise.
stS,2zO, QUO. while the taxation which goes
over stamps, income tax and excise IL
cense, which are 81, 200; postal rev.
enue, &'4O,OOO; crown lands, SOS, coo;
miscellaneous, $40, 00O-making a total
OF 45,66O,O00. On the other side. Ireland
taxes over the whole civil charges. with
the exception of constabulary CHARGES
-, 600; inland revenues, 9l6O. 900. and
postal service, e790,O00. We propose that
Ireland shall take part of the constabu-
larry charges, amounting to 81 900. 900.
Inns would bring the Irish charges to
40, IOo,O0O. We propose that she shall re-
celve against that items have put to her
credit, amounting to Ca, 100000. Thus she
VIII nave clear surplus of 950O,OOO with
which to start on her mission. 1t will
not release the House from the painful
consideration of details which it pursued
OF unexampled patience. l tried to con-
vey the fundamental conception and
spirit of the scheme.
ireland ever since 1886, if not before.
but unequivocally and nationally since
has abandoned the whole argument nor
maps she was entitled to make on the sinh
ject of union. She asked you to save for
yourselves every imperial power. In re-
turn she asked you only tie management
of her own affairs, which reason and ms
tlce L hope will soon move this nation tn
say soon shall be awarded her. If this
is to be the end of the matter. I think
dispassioned men would say the sooner
ended the better. The sooner we stamn
the seal which will efface all former ami
and open an era of peace and
good will the better. But matter which
human vision is hardly equal to penetrat-
ing would be misery for me if had fore
gone or omitted in the closing years of
my life any measures possible for me to
take toward unfolding and promoting a
cause which believe to be a cause not of
one party or one nation, but of all par
ties and all nations. To these nations
with the last opportunities, under liv-
ing union for power and happiness, to
these nations say: Let me entreat Won.
If 1t be my last breath L would so eutreat
you, to let the dead bury the dead. and
cast behind you former recoIlections of
bygone evils; cherish love and sustain
one another through all vicissitudes of
human affairs in times that are to come.
| Prolonged Liberal cheers.
When the cheering died out Sir Ed
ward Clarke, Attorney General in Sails
bury's administration, congratulated
Gladstone on the magnificent phvsical
effort which he had just made, and then
proceeded to enlarge on the proposals of
the bill. He dwelt with particular sever
ity upon the absence of any provisions
which would remove the objections of the
people OF Ulster to home rule, and then
went on to declare that the bill as ont
lined would not satisfy even the Nation
alfsts.
Thomas Newlin, anti-Parnellite. de-
clared the provisions of the bill. on the
whole, better than those of the bill of 1856.
Gladstone, in answer to Sir Edward
Clarke, said the land question was re-
served to the imperial Parliament for
three years.
The members then trooped out into the
lobbies, where the speech was informally
discussed with great animation. The
Giadstonion Liberals were disposed to re-
gard 1t as a conciliatory, well-baIanced
and peace-making measure, and seemed
to be hopeful as to the second reading.
The anti-Parneilite members. while
in their utterances, favored tho
Dill as whole, and were especially we'll
pleased with the financial arrangements
concerning which there had been appre-
tensions. All that the Tories would saw
for the new bill was that it was more
sagacious and better drawn than that of
1856. The Liberal-Unionists would not
make even this favorable admission. and
are declaring everywhere that it will
never reach the committee stage in the
House of Commons.
Meantime, in the House, Colonel Saun-
derson was speaking vehemently against