Mr Pencch's Sketch of a Home Rule Bill.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 169, 11 September 1886, Page 3

Mr Pencch's Sketch of a Home Rule Bill.

1. England, Scotland, and Ireland each to have a National Assembly composed of' the t Members of Parliament belonging to its own particular nationality. 2. Members of Parliament throughout the three kingdoms to be elected on one settled plan according to the numbers of the population, and without regard to the locality. ' 3. The National Assemblies to sit for ope month or longer as the occasion may require at London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, before the meeting of the Imperial Parliament. Dut ing" this time they shall decide up^n such Bills dealing with local interests^'aa they may consider necessary. ( ' T t 4.. lmmediately after the closing of the Assemblies, the /Imperial Parliament to be held. , 5/ All Bills passed by the Assemblies to be submitted to the Imperial Parliament, and not to be rejected unless there is a majority of a clear three-fourths against them. 6. After the passing of the Assembly Biils (which shall bo passed by the House of, Commons to the exclusion of the House of Lords) the ordinary business of the Session of the Imperial Parliament to be transacted. , , • . 7 The Imperial Parliament to > meet alternately at London, Dublin, and Edinburgh! But no Irish Members to b6 allowed to appear in more than one of these places at> the parae time. " ;