IRISH HOME RULE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 25, 19 April 1912, Page 5

IRISH HOME RULE.

Press Assu—By telegraph—Copyright LONDOiN, April 18. The Home Rule J3ili consists erf 48 clauses. There is no, preamble, it provides that one-fourth of the Senators shall retire every year and the Senate shall be debarred from amending and rejecting Money Bills. Ministers will be empowered to speak in either House, but vote only in that 'which they belong. The Bill further provides for Irish representatives in the Imperial Parliament, when the time is opportune for revision of financial provisions; making the representation in the House of Commons equivalent to Great Britain's upon a population basis. The second reading of the Bill will probably bo taken prior to tho "Whitsuntide roeoss. Sir J. B. Lonsdal gave a notice of motion in the House of Commons in favor of tho rejection of the manifesto signed by Mr Wm. O'Brien and Messrs Maurice and Timothy Healey, which states that they will not hesitate to summon a conference of the "All for Ireland League" to discuss the Bill in tho event of an emergency requiring action. Meanwhile, in view of the impossibility of passing any measure of Home Rule they deprecate sectional demonstrations for or against the Bill. (Received April 19, 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 18. The Home Riule Bill removes the religious disability attending the ■appointment of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and fixes the salarv at £SOOO.