PREVIOUS BILLS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 5

PREVIOUS BILLS.

INTRODUCED IN 1886 AND 1893. On 27th March, 1886, the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone introduced a Bill "to make better provision for the future government of Ireland." It proposed to establish a legislative body to sit in. Dublin, to consist of two orders each with a veto : (1) twenty-eight representative peers and seventy-five members elected for ten years; (2) the then present 103 Irish members of the House of Commons, and 101 additional. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with a Privy Council to be independent of Great Britain, and the new body empowered to enact laws and to impose and collect taxes, except the Customs, but not to interfere witk the Arftiy or Navy, or foreign and colonial affairs, and not to enact any iehgioiu> endowment. The legal and police arangenients were to remain temporarily subject to the Crown. No Irish member* w«rft to sit a£ ..Weal-

minster. On the 9th. April the Bill was road a first time, but on the 14th the second raidinef was rejected by 343 votes (25C Conservatives, 93 Liberals) to 313. In 1893. on 26th January, Mr. Gladstone again introduced a Homo Rule Bill, "to amend the provision for the government of "Ireland." Its chief features were that a non-political Viceroy should be appointed for a fixed term; that there should be two Chambers — a Legislative Council of forty-eight members to be elected by .S2O voters, and a ]je<j;islative Assembly of 103 members, eighty to sit at Westminster. The Bill, much changed, passed its third reading on 2nd September by 301 votes to 267. It was rejected', however, by the House of T/ords at the second reading by 419 votes to 41.