The Framework of Home Rule Part 27
APPENDIX
COMPARATIVE TABLE, SHOWING THE PRINc.i.p.aL PROVISIONS OF THE HOME RULE BILLS OF 1886 AND 1893
HOME RULE BILL OF 1886. HOME RULE BILL OF 1893.
THE IRISH LEGISLATURE.
To consist of the Crown and _Two To consist of the Crown and Orders_, sitting together, and _Two Houses_, sitting separately.
unless either Order demands a separate vote, voting together.
1. _First Order_, to consist of 1. _Council_, of 48 Councillors _(a)_ 75 members elected on a 25 elected on a 20 franchise from franchise from a new set of a new set of const.i.tuencies.
const.i.tuencies. Term of office, Term of office, eight years.
ten years. _(b)_ 28 Peerage members, to give place by degrees to elective members as in _(a)_.
_2. Second Order_, 204 members 2. _a.s.sembly_ of 103 members elected as at present. Two from each elected as at present.
const.i.tuency (with an alteration in the case of Cork).
Dissolution at least every five Dissolution at least every five years. years.
_Money Bills_ and votes to originate in the a.s.sembly.
DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN ORDERS OR HOUSES.
After three years or a After two years or a dissolution question to be dissolution question to be decided by joint vote. decided by joint vote in joint session.
ESTRICTIONS ON IRISH LEGISLATURE.
1. _Imperial Matters_.
_No power to make laws about_-- _Nor_ with: the Lord-Lieutenant, The Crown, War or Peace, Army or conduct as Neutrals, Extradition, Navy, Volunteers or Militia, Trade-marks, nor (for six years) Prize or Booty of War, Treaties, Post Office in or out of t.i.tles, Treason, Naturalization, Ireland.
Trade or Navigation, Lighthouses, etc., Coinage, But Trade _within Ireland_ and Copyright, Patents, Post Office _inland_ Navigation conceded to (except within Ireland). Ireland.
2. _Irish Matters.
No power to make laws for the purpose of_--
(1) _Establishing or endowing (1) Ditto, ditto, but more any religion_ or imposing explicit and far-reaching.
disabilities or conferring privileges on account of _religion_, or affecting the undenominational const.i.tution of National schools, etc.
(2) Impairing rights or property (2) Ditto, ditto, or "without of corporations, without address for due process of law" and both Orders and consent of Crown. compensation.
(3) Depriving anyone of _life, liberty, or property_ without due process of law in accordance with settled precedents, or denying _equal protection of laws_, or taking property without _just compensation_.
(4) Imposing disabilities or conferring privileges on account of _birth, parentage, or place of business_.
(5) (_For three years_) respecting relations of _landlord and tenant_ or the purchase and letting of _land_ generally.
IRISH REPRESENTATION IN IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
To cease altogether (except in Ireland to send 80 members to the case of a proposed Westminster (instead of 103).
alteration of the Home Rule Act). Peers as before.
EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY.
The Crown, as represented by the Lord-Lieutenant, acting in Irish affairs with the advice of an Irish Cabinet responsible to the Irish Legislature.
POWER OF VETO ON IRISH LEGISLATION.
To be held by Lord-Lieutenant To be held by Lord-Lieutenant, (acting normally on the advice _acting on advice of Irish of Irish Cabinet?), but subject Cabinet_, but subject to to instructions from Imperial instructions from Imperial Government. Government.
FINANCE.
1. _Taxation_.
_Customs and Excise_ still to be (1) _For six years_ all existing levied by Imperial Parliament and taxes to continue to be imposed collected by Imperial officers. by Imperial Parliament and All other taxes to be under Irish collected by Imperial officers.
control.
Ireland to have power to impose additional taxes of her own.
(2) _After six years_, Customs and Excise to remain Imperial taxes; all others to be under Irish control. But Excise to be collected, though not levied, by Ireland.
2. _Ireland's Revenue_.
_Gross_ revenue collected in (1) _True_ Irish revenue from Ireland from Imperial and Irish Imperial taxes (_i.e._, with taxes and Crown Lands, etc.; allowance made for duties _plus_ an Imperial grant towards collected in Ireland on the cost of Irish Police. (Total articles consumed in Great cost at that time 1,500,000: Britain, and _vice versa_).
Ireland to pay 1,000,000, Treasury any surplus over (2) Revenue from Irish taxes 1,000,000, until cost reduced and Crown Lands.
to that point.) (3) Imperial grant of one-third of annual cost of Irish Police (equal in first year to 486,000).
3. _Ireland's Contribution to Imperial Exchequer_.
(1) _For thirty years_ Ireland (1) _For six years_ Ireland to to pay fixed annual maximum sums, pay _one-third of the "true"
representing Ireland's share of revenue raised in Ireland from (a) Army, Navy, Civil List, etc.; Imperial taxes and Crown (b) National Debt. Payments not Lands_. (Estimated share for to be increased, but might be first year, 2,276,000, or diminished. Share for Army, Navy, about one-twenty-eighth of etc., never to exceed total Imperial expenditure.) one-fifteenth of total cost.
Total payments under these heads for first year, 3,242,000.
(2) _After thirty years_, (2) _After six years_, both contribution _to be revisable_. method and amount of Ireland's contribution to be revised and settled afresh.
4. _Contribution to Special War Taxes_.