Mr. .Healy in an extremely amusing speech denied that there
was any bargain between Mr. Redmond and Mr. Asquith. " The Prime Minister sized up the hon. Member for Waterford at his proper worth and measured him as a man without an ounce of political backbone." Mr. O'Brien's only crime had been to say to Mr. Redmond : " Well, if you have all those concessions, where are they P " Mr. Healy ridiculed the campaign against the veto, and declared that at the next Election the Liberals were going to the country, " not only against the House of Lords, but against the most popular man in England, the King." Ireland would have gained from this Parliament, on the one hand, a permanent taxation against which every Irishman had protested, and, on the other hand, the will-o'-the-wisp of a veto with five hundred shadowy Peers. " The English Government were getting the oyster, and the Irish people were getting the shell."
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