IRISH BELL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18194, 3 October 1924, Page 9

IRISH BELL.

ACCEPTED BY HOUSE. SECOND READING CARRIED. THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS. cable—rsxss Agsocurics—coyrtiWT; tßxcria'a txissulmi.) (Received October 2nd, 8 p.nO LONDON", October 1. In tho Ilouse of Commons, Captain Wedgewood llcnn (Liberal, Leith) reopened the Irish debate. He urged the adoption of an Imperial attitude, remembering that the solution lay in unity of Ireland a s a Dominion of the British Common wealth. lie naked tin* Conservatives whether <f wo could break our word to tho smallest Dominion without, destroying the faith of the whole of the Dominions?'' Mr Austen Chamberlain accused the Government of altering the old Treaty. Ifo hoped the Government would not destroy the possibility of agreement by putting pressure on one side only. Mr J. R. Clynes (Deputy-Leader of the House") deprecated the anticipations apparent in some quarters that disorders in Ireland would follow the operation of the Bill. Mr Lloyd George said the Government's action was perfectly justified. , Mr J. H. Thomas (Secretary of State for the Colonies), winding up the debate, gavo a guarantee that the Govornment did not intend to, and would not, appoint a Commissioner, when tha Bill became law, merely us a nomine# of the British Government, Ho would try to find a man who would be representative of Northern Ireland. Mr Thomas expressed his Jong-rooted * distaste for tho necessity of th» a]>pointmont of a Boundary Commlsrion, which, lie believed, would mean permanent partition, and vould have ft ruinous effect on Ireland's economic development. He declared that neither of tho Irish leaders "was unreasonable, but their positions were most difficult. Tho motion for rejection was defeated by 291 votes to 184, and the Bill was read a second time. GOVERNMENT NOMINEE. " V MAY BE LORD CARSON. (ABSTB4WW AHD TUX- CAthi iS&OCJ4?IQJ|.) (Beceivcd October Ist, 10.45 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. The "Daily Express" understands that Lord Oarsou will be the Government's Ulster nominee on the Boundary Commission. * A paragraph in Mr Lloyd George's speech in the Commons' debate denied emphatically that pledges had been given to Ulster by his Cabinet, ,on the lines suggested by the late Lord Long.