But whether it be a principle of the Bill or not, there is no question that it is a very weighty and, if I may say so, an organic detail which cuts rather deep in some respects into the composition of the Bill.'-- Mr.Gladstone, Feb.

13, 1893, _Times Parliamentary Debates_, pp.

305, 306.

This statement, with the whole passage of which it forms part, is as astounding as would have been a statement by Lord John Russell on introducing the great Reform Bill, that he could not say whether the disfranchisement of rotten boroughs did or did not form a principle of the measure.
[37] Compare Report of Special Commission, pp.

18, 19.
[38] Under the Home Rule Bill of 1893 as sent up to the House of Lords, it would have been the 'constant presence.' [39] The division of parties in an American State is governed not by questions concerning the internal affairs of the State, but by the questions which divide parties at Washington.