dy. If a council,
supported by the legislative body and the governor do not agree, the
governor must give way unless he can, by dismissing his council and
dissolving the legislative body, obtain both a council and a legislative
body which will support his views. As respects imperial questions, the
case is different; here the last word rests with the mother country, and
in the last resort a determination of the executive council, backed by
the legislative body, to resist imperial rights, must be deemed an act
of rebellion on the part of the Irish people, and be dealt with
accordingly.

The above clauses contain the pith and marrow of the whole scheme. The
exact constitution of the legislative body, and the orders into which it
should be divided, the exclusion or non-exclusion of the Irish members
from the Imperial Parliament, indeed, the whole of the provisions found
in the remainder of this Bill, are matters which might be altered
without destroying, or even violently disarranging, the Home-rule scheme
as above described.

Clauses 9, 10, and 11 provide for the constitution of the legislative
body; it differs materially from the colonial legislative bodies, and
from the Legislature of the United States. For the purpose of
deliberation it consists of one House only; for the purpose of voting on
all questions (except interlocutory applications and questions of
order), it is divided into two classes, called in the Bill "Orders,"
each of which votes separately, with the result that a question on which
the two orders disagree is deemed to be decided in the negative. The
object of this arrangement is to diminish the chances of collision
between the two branches of the Legislature, which have given rise to so
much difficulty both in England and the colonies. Each order will have
ample opportunity of learning the strength and hearing the arguments of
the other order. They will therefore, each of them, proceed to a
division with a full sense of the responsibility attaching to their
action. A further safeguard is provided against a final conflict between
the first and second orders. If the first order negative a proposition,
that negative is in force only for a period of three years, unless a
dissolution takes place sooner, in which case it is terminated at once;
the lost bill or clause may then be submitted to the whole House, and if
decided in the affirmative, and assented to by the Queen, becomes law.
The first order of the I