WILL REDMOND AGREE?

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 25, 6 March 1914, Page 7

WILL REDMOND AGREE?

TO PREMIER'S PROPOSAL.

REGARDING HOME RULE. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, Marclwo. There is little doubt that Mr Asquith's proposals will have-Mr Redmond's concurrence,, though some Ministerialists fear the attitude of the Nationalist Convention, if called on to sanction the changes. VARIED OPINIONS. LONDON, March 5. Lord Dunraven, in .a letter to the newspapers, says that a fair chance of settlement will be obtainable only by referring Mr Asquith 's proposal to a conference on the lines suggested by Lord Loreburn. Coercion is impossible,r exclusion unthinkable, and a general election useless as a solution.

Lord Hugh Ceeil, i» a, letter, says that the difficulty in the way of a conference is insuperable". He draws an analogy between General Botha's action in South Africa and possible happenings in Ireland , as creating two centres of sovereignty. Nobody can deny that the deportations were altogether indefensible. Nobody ean be blind to the outrage and scandal of an infliction of perpetual- exile by a retrospective enactment. It was true that sovereignty lay with the South African Parliament -and General Botha, not with the British Crown. Such were the consequences of Home Rule. [Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord Loreburn contended that a dissolution did. not offer a solution of the problem, but would merely postpone the whole question.' The Bill, he said) was good, l>ut a ~ settlement by consent would be better. He believed that would prove the solution .of the difficulty.] *

BILL INTRODUCED. AMENDMENTS ON TUESDAY. (Received March 6, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, March IS. The Right Hon. Augustine -Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduced the Home Rule Bill in the House' of Commons, "amid Ministerial and Nationalist cheers. -

The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith informed Mr Bonar Law that the Government's proposed amendments to .the Bill would be ready for circulation by Tuesday.