Debate of October 26, 1893.Subject: "Resolved, That the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1893 should be passed."

Brief for the Affirmative.ALBERT BOYDEN and H. L. CANNON.

Best general references: London Times, July 31, 1893 (The bill), Feb. 14 (Gladstone), Feb. 15 (Bryce); A. M. Sullivan, M. P. in Labor's Cyc. of Polit. Sci. II, 598-606; James Bryce, Century Mag. IV, 249-262.

I. (a) Home Rule is desirable for England's sake. Nineteenth Cent. XXI, 165. (1) Home Rule would lessen the work of Parliament. (2) It would lessen the changes of administration. (3) It would remove foreign reproaches. (4) It would lessen Ireland's hatred. (b) Home Rule is desirable for Ireland's sake. (1) It would give greter opportunity for needful legislation. (2) An Irish legislature would be better informed on Irish needs, and more sympathetic in the treatment of them. (3) Law would be more respected. (4) Responsibility would sober the Irish.

II. The passage of this particular bill is desirable. (1) The general system of the bill has proved successful in the Norway-Sweden Union, the Austro-Hungarian Union, and the United States. Bryce, London Times, Feb. 14. (2) The supremacy of Parliament is retained in the right of the Crown Veto. (3) The retention of Irish members at Westminster is necessary for protection of Irish in Imperial matters. (4) Two Houses has been found by experience to be the best legislative scheme. (5) The Protestant minority is protected by the division of the legislature and by special provisions of the bill. (6) Any bill must, under the circumstances, be a compromise measure.

Brief for the Negative.C. H. BECKWITH and W. E. COBB.

Best general references: A. V. Dicey, Why England Maintains the Union, (London, 1887); Balfour's Speech in the Commons, London Times, Feb. 15, 1893; Lord Salisbury's Speech in the Lords, London Times, Sept. 9, 1893.

I. A change is unnecessary: Lord Salisbury's Irish Policy is successful. Edinburg, vol. 175, p. 285 (Jan. 1892).

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