On Friday week, the attempt to refuse the Irish Legislature
leave to deal with the regulation of factories, workshops, and mines, so as to keep uniform the conditions of labour in the United Kingdom, was negatived by a majority of 30 (298 to 268); and Sir John Lubbock's effort to exclude the regulation not only of " legal tender," but of " currency generally, from the sphere of the Irish Legislature, was met by a promise of Sir William Harcourt to see if some safeguards against any reckless dealing with currency by the Irish Legislature, could not be introduced; after which promise the amendment was withdrawn. An Irish attempt to guillotine the discussion on Clause 3, was defeated by the Chairman's refusing his assent to it; indeed, he declared that only on the motion of a responsible Minister would he be justified in accepting that kind of closure ; after which the debate was adjourned.
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