LORDS AND HOME RULE

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 5

LORDS AND HOME RULE

■| RECASTING THE BILL i ; FORCING INTO DANGER. I j LORD HALDANFS WARNING. I ' ißj Cable —Press Association.—Copyris'it) I — LONDON. July 0. During the disoussion in the House of Lords on the Home Rule Amending Bill • yesterday. Knrl Crew demanded a divi- ■ 1 sion upon the main Opposition amendi ments. ]!<■ said the Government could : not apre,. to Lord l.anedowiie'* exclusion • amendment. It was not rijrla U> coerce the lister Catholii-s into accepting ! something they did not want. l-or.l MidiilPtons amendment substituting tin , Secretary 01 State for the . L-ord-Lieulenant was paired without . Ijovernment opposition. Ixril Jj.nsdownc replied to Karl ; Crewe'a thallen«c He declined to : jruanint<x- that tliere would hf no civil i-onfliot. .Matters h.-ul arrived at sm.h ; a pass that it was impossible to guaran--11 tee what might hppen in a few weeks. I Lord Ilaldane said the Opposition was forcing the country into danger. They ■ hoped to come into power shortly, when 1 they would have fmir-rifths of Ireland i ! ajjainst them, yet they had not one clear I idea how ro deal with the situation. ; Lord M. Aldw-yn's amendment rei ducini: the numlier of Irish uiernlx-rs to he sent to Westminster from the Home Rule area from 40 to iT was adopted. Lord Hal.-bury demanded to know whether the Kovornmont proposed to laocept the amendments. They bad a ' risrht to know before the amending bill j was read a third time. He warned the ' (jovernment that unless they acted ■ I promptly they would be responsible for ' J bloodshed. 1 j Mr. F. r>. Ac.and. speaking at Hunt- ! ingdon last said that force would bo met with force. Should a peaceful settlement of VNter fail, the Conservatives hoped that the Home Rule Bill would al.-o fail, but that was a vain , hope. The "Dsily TeJpgrapli's" Parliament- • ary correspondent states there is reason to believe lh.it the (lovernment will ultimately aerept the enieial amrndment? to the unending bill, excluding tbn I whole of Tister and abolishinc the time ! limit. |] The ''Daily Chronicle" predicts that Man autumn session will be held. I 'Hie Customs seizfd 240 sacks of . cement landed i'.t THfast. each containI incr iiirtridsics. 1 A numlier of revolvers at Londonderry were also seized. lieiiera] Macready 1 OfTicer in Command in I'isterl visited London, and ha,l several interviews with Mr. Asquith (Minister for War), from whom he reoeivrrl instructions the new situation in I'lster. «