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Government of Ireland Bill 1893

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By the third reading on 1 September, 26 of the Bill's 37 clauses had still not been debated. A fist-fight developed on the opposition benches between Home Rule and Conservative MPs. The Bill, though passed by the Commons with a slimmer majority of 30, had lost much of its credibility. At that time
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As with the first bill, the second bill was controversially drafted in secret by Gladstone, who excluded both Irish MPs and his own ministry from participating in the drafting. The decision led to a serious factual error in the Bill, a mistake over the calculation of how much Ireland should
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contribute to the British Imperial Exchequer. The error in the calculation was £360,000, a vast sum for the time. The error was discovered during the Committee Stage of the Bill's passage through the Commons and forced a major revision of the financial proposals.
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Gladstone retired soon afterwards. Some historians now suggest that Gladstone was the author of his own defeats on home rule, with his secretive drafting alienating supporters, and enabling serious flaws to appear in the text of his bills.
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provided for no Irish MPs at Westminster, the 1893 Bill allowed for the eighty Irish MPs to sit in Westminster; this would have been a reduction from the 103 MPs who were then in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
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was engaged on other matters, and Gladstone, in the words of a historian, "increasingly disengaged". On 21 April, the Bill's second reading was approved by a majority of 347 to 304.
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the second reading was defeated on 8 September 1893 by 419 votes to 41. This was a major stumbling block for the Irish MPs because the House of Lords was controlled by the
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Disagreement between the houses would be resolved after two years by majority vote of the members of the two houses voting together.
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20 property qualification, higher than the £10 qualification of the Assembly. The constituencies would be the three largest
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The Legislative Council would have 48 councillors, elected for eight-year terms in two cohorts at four-year intervals. The
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The Legislative Assembly would have 103 members, elected for a maximum of five years, with potential for earlier
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Irish parliament to control domestic affairs, made up of a Legislative Council and a Legislative Assembly.
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were combined. Most constituencies would elect one member; the more populous, two or three.
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in 1885, a fact revealed (possibly accidentally) in what became known as the
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from EPPI online (Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland), DIPPAM.
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had caused him to lose power after members of his party left to form the
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Government of Ireland Bill 1893 (as reported by the House of Commons)
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for Ireland. Unlike the first attempt, which was defeated in the
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and there would be little chance of it getting passed by them.
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was passed on 1 September 1893 by 301 to 267. However, in the
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Gladstone had become personally committed to the granting of
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to the Irish parliament and the bill did not provide for a
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evolved early on, even if not mentioned anywhere in law.
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Government of Ireland Bill 1893, §§8, 10 and Schedule 2
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Gladstone, Home Rule and the Ulster Question, 1882–1893
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was divided into East and West Ridings, and Counties
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Index


Name and origin
Gladstone
Parliamentary passage
Defeated
Details of legislation
Privy Council of Ireland
Enactment
Government of Ireland Act 1914
Liberal Party
William Ewart Gladstone
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
home rule
House of Commons
House of Lords
Irish home rule
Hawarden Kite
1886 Home Rule Bill
Liberal Unionist Party
Bill
Irish Parliamentary Party
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish National League
Irish National Federation
Chancellor of the Exchequer
William Harcourt
Chief Secretary for Ireland
Conservative Party
House of Lords
bicameral

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