The House of Lords continued the Committee stage of the
Government of Ireland Bill on Thursday, December 2nd, Lord Oranmore and Browne carried several new clauses to complete his scheme for setting up Senates in the Northern and Southern Parliaments. An amendment hostile to proportional represen- tation was rejected. Lord Stuart of Wortley revived the "In and Out" proposal, by which Mr. Gladstone was attracted in 1903—namely, that the Irish members at Westminster should not vote on British domestic questions, but he was defeated by 81 votes to 43. Lord Crewe then proposed that Ireland should not be represented at Westminster. The Lord Chancellor reminded the House that the American Colonies broke away because they were taxed without being represented in Parliament and that Ireland would raise the same objection to Imperial taxation. The House therefore negatived the amendment with- out a division.
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