PASSED THROUGH COMMITTEE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14564, 15 January 1913, Page 9

PASSED THROUGH COMMITTEE.

A NEW CLAUSE CARRIED,

MR T. HEALEY'S STRICTURES.

(Received January 14th. 9.55 p.m.) LONDON, January 14. The Committeo stago of th© Home Rule Bill has been finished in the Houso of Commons. Amid Nationalist and Ministerialist cheers, the Government carried a motion fixing tho summoning of th© Irish Parliament not later than four months after the first Tuesday in tho eighth month after the passage of tho Bill. Mr Tim Tealey contended thai th© delay of a year was invented to permit the submission of th© Bill to a general election, on tho results of which tho Irish Party were asked to gamble their existence. Tho clause represented a triumph for Orangeism. Tho remaining clauses wero passed under tho guillotine. Mr W. H. *Kidston, an interview with whom appeared in "The Press" yesterday, writes to us as follows: — "If permissible, I should like to supplement my remarks on Homo Rule with something I intended to say yesterday. I have noticed from several papers in New Zealand that, in some quarters at least, it is taken for granted that the present Government at Home has a mandate for Homo Rule. Nothing ot th© kind. At last general election nono of th© front bench men, and hardly one of the rank and file of the Radical Party, mentioned Homo Rule in their election addresses, and th© question was kept in the background and never seriously discussed. In one of th© divisions of Manchester, Mr Bonar Law, by request, opposed th© sitting member, Sir Geo. Kemp, a man with much personal and local lnfiuenco, and very popular, but was beaten by a reduced majority. It was well known, however, that Sir George was a strong anti Horn© Ruler. When, the Bill was introduced, Sir Geo. Kemp, feeling his position to be untenable, resigned his seat. The resultant byclcction gave a big victory to th© Unionist Party. Yet it is said that the people have sanctioned Home Rule for Ireland, which is certainly not the case."