HOME RULE DEBATE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8407, 8 November 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE DEBATE.

THE IRISH REPRESENTATION AT I WESTMINSTER. '

AMENDMENT REJECTED

(Per Press • Associatibn-r-CopTristht.)

(Received November 8/ 8 a.m.)

LONDON, November 7

In clause 13, providing for the retention of the Irish members at Westminister, Mr Felix Cassell moved to exclude all the Irish members from the Imperial Parliament until there was no deficit in the Irish expenditure for three successive years.

Mr Asquith defended their Retention as a necessary part of the general devolution' to which Irish Home Rifle was the- first step. , r •

Mr Redmond said that, pending the completion of. .the, federal system ; the anomaly of Irishmen at Westminster must be.endured;

Mr Balfour derided- the idea ,of general devolution, otherwise the Government would not have handed the Customs,to Ireland.

The amendment was rejected by 315 to 213.