Deb._, p.

500.
[73] See Bill, clause 5, sub-clause (3).

The language of this clause disposes of the contention put forward by at least one Gladstonian candidate at the last general election [_i.e._ of 1892], that the veto must of necessity be exercised under the control of the British Cabinet; an arrangement too futile for an ardent Gladstonian to contemplate as possible is therefore actually enacted in the Government of Ireland Bill.
[74] It is to be presumed that the Crown, or in effect the British Cabinet, does not in the case of Ireland retain the power of 'disallowance' under which the Crown occasionally annuls colonial Acts which have received the assent of a colonial Governor.

The power to disallow an Irish Act which, though not unconstitutional, has worked injustice, might be of advantage.

But in truth the parliamentary methods for enforcing the Restrictions or safeguards are utterly unreal; they do not repay examination; whether there be two sham modes of enforcement, or one, must be to a sensible man a matter of indifference.