HOME RULE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 13 May 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE.

A CROP OF AMENDMENTS. FEELING UK BRITAIN. MAJORITY FOB THE BILL. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.15 ajn.) LONDON. May 12. A hundred amendments to the Home Rule Bill has been given notice of in the House of Commons, some urging the postponement of the bill until after the next general election and the adoption of a referendum for the exclusion of Ulster. Others suggest no payment for members of the Irish Parliament. Mr. Alexander L"re, Lord Advocate foi .Scotland, speaking at Cambridge, said that the dividing line between the two great political parties was more clear , defined to-day than he remembered. National insurance was not popular at present, but that was a peculiarity of all reforms. All Janger of Ireland's separation had vanished. Mr. Walter Runeiman (President of the Board of Agriculture), speaking at Liverpool, said that Britain had made up its mind concerning Home Rule. The feeling against the bill was mild and half asleep, and the second reading showed a clear British majority of 31 in favour that was below the true estimate of the country's feelings. Disestablishment in Wales was first in order of precedence, and English disestablishment must follow when the Liberals were able to deal with it. After the Home Rule division Mr. .T. Redmond (Leader of the Nationalists) was introduced for the first time to Lady Frederick Cavendish, widow of the late I Lord Frederick Cavendish, one of the victims of the Phoenix Park murders. Lady Cavendish warmly congratulated Mr. Redmond on the triumph of the cause that he so long had had at heart. TO THE BAYONET'S POINT. NO COMPROMISE IN ULSTER. LONDON, May 11. Sir Edward Carson (Leader of the Irish Unionist party), in a speech at the Nineteen Hundred Club, declared that no compromise was-possible on the question of Home Rule. Continuing, he said that he never in dulged in "brag," but if the Home Rule Bill were passed Irish loyalty would be coerced to the point of the bayonet. It would be the worst thing possible for the army and dangerous for the Empire, WHAT SCOTLAND WANTS. LONDON. May 11. Mr. T. McKuuion Wood Liberal member for the St. Rollox division of Glasgow and Financial Secretary to the Treasury), in a speech at Edinburgh, declared that Scotsmen did not want Home Rule precisely on the model of the Irish Rome Rule" Bill. They wanted to retain nil their present members at Westminster. This desire, he added facetiously, was not due to any selfish motive, but it was because it would be a loss to the Empire if a single Scottish member -were withdrawn from the Imperial Parliament. (Laughter.)