The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-04-27

the making OF peace and war, army
and navy, treaties and foreign rela-
tions, dignities and titles of honor,
necessary control of harbors for
naval and military purposes, coinage
and weights and measures, copyrights
and patents. The Imperial and Irish
Governments shall jointly arrange,
subject to Imperial exigencies, for the
unified control of the Irish police and
postal service during the war, pro-
vided that as soon as possible after
the cessation of hostilities the admin
istration of these two services shall
become subject to the Irish Parlia-
ment. (Section carried, 49 to 16.)
Restriction Of Power.
Section A. Restriction of the
power of the Irish Parliament; prohi-
bftion of laws interfering with re-
ligious equality; a special provision
protecting the position of Free Ma
sons; a safeguard for Trinity College
and Queens University; money bills
to be founded only on a viceregal
message; privileges and qualifications
of the members of the Irish Parlia-
ment to be as in the act of 1914; rights
of existing Irish officers to be safe
guarded. Carried, 46 to 15)
Section s. Constitutional amend.
ments as in the act of 1914. (Section
carried, As to 15.)
Executive Power.
Section 6. The executive power in
Ireland to continue to be vested in
the King, exercfsable through the
Lord Lieutenant on the advice of an
Irish executive committee, as in the
act of 1914. Carried, 40 to 15.)
Section T. Dissolution of the Irish
Parliament as in the act of 1914.
Carried, 45 to 49,
Section 8. Royal assent to bills,
as in the act of 1914 Carried, 45 to
ll5.l
The Senate.
Section 8. Constitution of the
Senate as follows: One Lord Chan
ceHor, four Bishops of the Roman
Catholic Church, two Bishops of the
Church of Ireland, one representative
of the General Assembly, three Lord
Mayors, of Dublin, Belfast and Cork;
fifteen peers resident in Ireland,
elected by peers resident in ireland;
eleven persons nominated by Lord
Lieutenant, fifteen representatives of
commerce and industry, four repre-
sentatives of labor, one for each prov
ince; eight representative of county
councils, two for each province. To-
tai GA. Carried, 4S to 49,
House OF Commons.
Section 10. Constitution of the
House of Commons-The ordinary
elected members shall number 100.
The University of Dublin, the Univer-
sity of Belfast and the National Uni
yersity shall each have two members,
elected by graduates. Special rep
resentation shall be given to urban
and industrial areas by grouping the
smaller towns and applying to them
a lower election quota than the rest
of the country. The principle of pro-
portional representation shall be OBJ
served wherever constituency re-
turns two or three members.
Forty per cent of the membership
in the House of Commons shall be
guaranteed to the .Unionists, and in
pursuance of this, twenty members
shall be nominated by the Lord
Lieutenant, with a view to due repre-
sentatien of interests not otherwise
adequately represented in the Prov
inces of Leinster,i Munster and Con-
naught, and twenty additional mem
bers shall be elected by Ulster to
represent commercial, industrial and
agricultural interests. The nominated
members to disappear In whole or in
part after fifteen years. Extra Ulster
representation is not to cease except
on the decision of a three-fourths
majority of both houses sitting to-
gether. The House of Commons shall.
continue for five years unless pre-
! viously dissolved. Carried, As to 200
! Section H. Money bills to orig
! mate only in the House of Commons
land not amendable by the Senate.
/ Carried, 80 to 22.) r
Section IL. Disagreement between
] the houses to be solved by a joint
i sitting. Carried, 45 to 22.).
Representation in British Parliament.
i I Section af3. Representation in the
1 British Parliament to continue: Irish
4 Representatives to have the right to
deliberate and vote on all matters.
!. Forty-two Irish representatives shall
be elected to the British House of
, Commons Irish representation in the
: British House of Lords to continue as
, at present until that chamber is re-
modelled, when that matter shall be
reccnsidcred. Carried, Az to 22)
| Finance.
) Section H. Finance. Irish ex
chequer and consolidated fund to be
= established, an Irish Controller and
! Auditor General to be appointed, as il
act of 1914 If necessary it should bt
1 declared that all taxes, at presen
J 4leyiable in Ireland, shoald continue tt
: be levied and collected until the Irisl
Il Parliament otherwise decides. Neces
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