HOME RULE BILL

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE BILL

GTrUJLOTININGS. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright) LONDON", November 6. The debate on the Home Rule Bill was continued in the House of Commons yesterday. louring the discussion on Clause 10, dealing , with money 'bills, the-closure "was applied and 24 amendments were guillotined. Clause 11, providing for joint sittings of the two Houses in the event of a disagreement, was carried after an amendment had ■been accepted, confining its operation to public bills. Clause 10 of the bill is as follows:— (I) Hills appropriating revenue or money, or imposing taxation, shall originate only in the Jrish House of Commons, but a bill shall not be taken to appropriate revenue, or money, or to impose taxation by reason only of its containing provisions only for the imposition or appropriation of fines, or other pecuniary penalties, or for the payment or appropriation or fees for services under the bill. (2) The Irish House of Commons shall not adopt or pass any resolution, address, or bill for the appropriation for any purpose of any part of the public revenue of Ireland, or of any tax, except in pursuance of a recommendation from the Ijord-Ijieutenaiit. in the session in which the vote, resolution, or address, or bill is proposed. (3) The Irish Senate may not reject any bill which deals only with the imposition of taxation or appropriation of revenue or money for the service* of the Irish Government, and may not amend any bill so far as the bill imposes taxation or appropriates revenue or money for the services of the Irish Government, and the Irish Senate may not amend any bill so as to increase any proposed charges or burden on the people. (4) Any bill which appropriates revenue or money for the ordinary annual services of I'he Irish Government .-hall deal only with that

appropriation. Clause 11 reads: (1) If the Irish House of Commons pass any bill, and the Irish Senate reject, or fail to pass it, or pass it with amendments to which the Irish House of Commons shall not acree. and if the Irish House of Commons in the next session again pass the bill with or without any amendments which have hren made or agreed to by the Jris-li Senate, and the Irish Senate reject or pass it. or pass it with amendments to which the Irish House of Commons will not agree, the l.ordljeu•tenant mry during that session convene a joint siUing of the members <>( the two Houses. Cl) The members .-it any such joint sitting may deliberate and shall vote together on the hill as last proposed by the Irish House of Commons, and upon the amendments (if any) which have been made therein by the one House and not agreed to by the other; and any such iiincndments which are affirmed by a majority of the U>taJ number of members of the two Houses present at the sitting shall l>e taken to have been carried. (.'!) If the bill with the amendments (if any) so taken to harvc been carried is affirmed by a majority of the total number of members of the two Houses present at any such sitting, it shall be taken to have beer> duly passed by both Houses.