HOME RULE BILL.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 7

HOME RULE BILL.

THE VETO BILL,

REFERENDUM PROPOSAL NEGATIVED-.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 27th, 10.15 p.m.) Mr G. Cave's amendment to the Veto Bill providing that after a bill had been passed thrice by the House ot Commons and rejected by the House of Lords it should be submitted to a referendum was negatived by 28G votes to 164. Sir Henry Samuel declared that unless constantly used the referendum was no remedy for a deadlock, and if constantly used would become intolerable. Mr Balfour emphasised the fact that the referendum should only bo used on great and rare occasions. The referendum was more necessary as tho party system was getting more rigid. * Mr Asquith declared that the amendment was more revolutionary than anything which had been submitted to the House. He deprecated casting upon the people the burden of deciding what their representatives were sent to Parliament to decide. LONDON. April 27. In the House of Commons Mr Asquith informed Mr N. Craig that the Government would be unable to undertake the reform of the House of Lords before tho introduction of tho Homo Rule Bill. „ . Lord MacDonnell, speaking at Galway, declared that the financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland were important, inasmuch as a lasting agreement was possible only when prosecuted with justice and a full knowledge of tho facts. Tho Government had begun to consider tho principles of devolution or Home Rule. If settlement of tho Home Rule question was desirable, tho completion of the land question was equally so. Threo courses were possible. Tho Government might await tho rehabilitation of British credit, or share with the selling landlords tho depreciation of threo per centum stock; or, as he preferred, repeat tho offer embodied in the Bill of 1909, to pay cash, provided the landlords accepted the principle of compulsion.