After the Chancellor of the Exchequer sat down, there were
only two speeches of any importance on Monday, Mr. Justin McCarthy's and Mr. John Redmond's. Mr. Justin McCarthy delivered himself of a deferential invitation to Mr. Gladstone to pledge himself to produce a satisfactory Home-rule measure, and not to resign on its rejection by the Lords ; to examine during the long vacation the position of the evicted tenants, and find some means of restoring them to their holdings ; and to reconsider the sentences on the dynamiters, and, if possible, modify and shorten their sen- tences. Thereupon Mr. John Redmond formulated his much stronger demands. He insisted that there should be no veto on the Irish Legislature except that of the Crown, delivered on the advice of the Irish Administration. He did not deny, he said, that a statutory constitution which the Imperial Parlia- ment had granted, the Imperial Parliament could also abolish ; but, short of abolition, he demanded that it should never inter- fere at all in Irish legislation. He demanded for the Irish Parliament full financial power, without the limitations of the Bill of 1886. He exacted the restoration of the evicted Irish tenants to their holdings, and the "turning out" of the new tenants. And he asked for the amnesty of the dynamitards.
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