. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. the arm\- and the navy, and, indeed, allimperial questions, would be out of the province of the Irish questions, colonial questions, and questions proposing to endow orestablish any religious body should be forbidden. The Irish Parliament should consist of two Houses, each having powerof a veto over the
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. the arm\- and the navy, and, indeed, allimperial questions, would be out of the province of the Irish questions, colonial questions, and questions proposing to endow orestablish any religious body should be forbidden. The Irish Parliament should consist of two Houses, each having powerof a veto over the acts of the other. There should be twenty-eight repre-sentative peers, and seventy-five other members on whom a property quali-fication should rest of two hundred pounds a year. These should be chosenfor a period of ten years, and the electors should have a qualification oftwenty-five pounds a year. The second order of representatives should betwo hundred and four in number, of which one hundred and three should beborough members, county members, and university members, and one hun-dred and one others should be variously distributed. The term period inthis House should be five years. The chief executive, that is, the viceroy. FIRST BATTLE FOR HOilE RULE. 591 XG >. 592 LIFE AND TliMES OF WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. should remain as at present until some other order should be viceroy should have his privy council, and should not be subject tochanije with the legislative oovernment. If the present judges should re-tire they might be pensioned. The present constabulary should be con-tinued under the existing authority. Ultimately the police regulations ofIreland should be determined by the legislature of that country. The finan-cial aspects of the question were then discussed, and a demonstration offeredthat the new arrangement would be equitable to all concerned. In presenting this great, almost revolutionary, scheme of reform, stood boldly to his colors.
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