stion of representation at
Westminster.[83] Probably it would be most convenient to leave the
matters in the hands of the Irish Legislature. In any case, the
Command-in-Chief of all forces in Ireland, regular or volunteer, would,
as in the Colonies,[84] be vested in the King.

The control of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan
Police does not affect the question of representation at Westminster.
With or without representation, Ireland should be given the control of
all her own police forces from the first, without the restrictions
imposed by the Bills of 1886 and 1893 with regard to Imperial control of
the existing forces.[85]

With the important exception of taxation, with which I shall deal last,
no other power which should properly be reserved to the Imperial
Parliament, or delegated to the Irish Parliament, has any appreciable
bearing upon the exclusion of Irish Members from the House of Commons.
Nor do any of them raise issues which are likely to be troublesome.
Common sense and mutual convenience should decide them. The Army, Navy,
and other military forces I have already dealt with. The Crown, the
Lord-Lieutenant, War and Peace, Prize and Booty of War, Foreign
Relations and Treaties (with the exception of commercial Treaties),
Titles, Extradition, Neutrality,[86] and Treason, are subjects upon
which the Colonies have no power to legislate or act, and of which it
would be needless, strictly, to make any formal statutory exception in
the case of Ireland, though the exception no doubt will be made in the
Bill. Naturalization, Coinage, Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, are all
matters in which the Colonies have local powers, whose existence, and
the limitations attaching to them, are determined either solely by
constitutional custom or with the addition of an implied or express
statutory authority.[87] The two former would, I should think, be wholly
reserved to the Imperial Parliament. In the case of the latter three,
which were wholly reserved in the Bill of 1886 and 1893, Ireland might
be placed in the position of a self-governing Colony.[88]

In Trade and Navigation it would be wise to take the same course. The
Home Rule Bill of 1886, without giving Ireland representation at
Westminster, denied her all powers over Trade and Navigation. The Bill
of 1893 gave her powers over Trade within Ireland and Inland Navigation,
and these powers at any rate should be given in the coming Bill,
together with th