Lord Duzuaven moved the rejection of the Bill on the
ground that it met with no support from most Irishmen, who wanted "full fiscal and financial control" over Trish affair' s. Lord Willoughby de Broke said that he still believed in the Union, and objected to any form of Horne Rule ; Lord Clanwilliam took the same view, contending that the fault was not in the Union, but in the administration. Lord Haldane declared that, though the Bill did not go far enough, it was a great step forward towards Home Rule, and that no better Bill could be obtained at this time by agreement between Great Britain and Ireland. The Duke of Abercorn, Lord Massereene, and Lord Dufferin agreed in saying that Ulster would accept the Bill as a measure of peace. Lord Kilmaine, a Southern Unionist, maintained, on the other hand, that the partitioning of Ireland—which, we may remark, is and has long been a fact—would wreck the settlement,
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