(ii) relate to the election of members to serve in [the Imperial] Parliament, or
(iii) touch any matter not within the powers of the Irish Legislature, or
(iv) touch any matter affected by a law which the Irish Legislature have not power to repeal or alter.
It is possible that sub-clause (4) gives the Exchequer Judges a much wider jurisdiction than is intended by the authors of the Home Rule Bill, and the strictures which have been made on this sub-clause deserve attention. My purpose, however, is not to criticise the details of the Home Rule Bill or to suggest amendments thereto. Its fundamental principle is, in the eyes of every Unionist, unsound, and the Bill itself therefore unamendable. My object is simply to describe and criticise the general constitutional provisions of the Bill and to show their bearing and effect.
Compare England's Case (3rd ed.), pp. 258, 259.
See England's Case (3rd ed.), pp. 214-218.
See Home Rule Bill, clause 3, sub-clause (7) (p. 198, post), and compare same clause slightly amended, in Bill, as sent up to the House of Lords, sub-clause (8).
These strictures on the financial arrangements which were to exist between England and Ireland apply directly to the Home Rule Bill as introduced into the House of Commons, but they are less applicable to the Bill as amended, more or less in favour of Ireland, before the Bill was sent up to the House of Lords. Compare clause 10 of the original Bill with clause 11 of the Bill as amended and brought up to the House of Lords.
Bill, clauses 14, 15, and 16. [Compare with these clauses of the original Bill clauses 13, 14, 15, and 16 of the Bill as amended before being sent to the House of Lords.]
See Fiske, Critical Period of American History, chs. iii. and iv.