HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 71, 13 March 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

, m , , LONDON, .March 11. J. he debate on the second read ng of the Home Rule Bill will probably be resumed on March 30. An influential section of Nationalists in Ireland disl.ke the concessions, and believe that they will involve formidable administrative confusions. Many prominent Orangemen are of the dpiiuon that Sir ¥,. Carson (antiHome Rule leader) has gone too far in promising to accept the Government's offer -i the time limit is eliminated. Lord Dunraven (who was chairman of the Iri6h Land Conference in 1902) opines that the offer of partial exclusion is meaningless unless it is established with certainty that such a scheme is workab.e. He declares that the representation of Ulster in the Imperial Parliament, the position of the Lord Lieutenant, and the possibility of the Ir:sh Parliament placing Customs barriers around the excluded counties are three of the outstanding difficulties to the proposals. The 'Daily News' (G.) says that the National sts and the greater number of Lberais are against the compromise, and declares that it is impossible to accede to Sir E. Carson's request that lister be excluded until a fresh Act is passed as that will allow the habit of local government to grow up in Tjlster, and with vested interests established it will become difficult for the Imperial Parliament to resist a claim for special treatment. EARL GREY'S VIEWS.

FEDERAL SYSTEM ADVOCATED. WELLINGTON, .March 11. In an interview g ven to a 'Post' representative to-day Earl Grey (<>x-Govornor-General of Canada) made a statement on the quest on of Homo Rule, in view of Right Hon. H H A«quith's (British Prime Miivster) amended proposal as outlined in Irs speech in the House of Commons and reported in a cable message from London published last evening;, "I tb nk it would h<> wiser, ml Earl Grey, "to wait until ■we are m nowwtfoii of Mr AwiuM's mil proposals below, expressing » d»»mute opinion upon them, but my im* prison j 8 if one may.form a!i'on,> ion from tile cubta in vu'tmbtv's papei' that criticism wl| show tiiiit the sO leniA suggested * s o unworkable. that it will break Llown. For instance it is reported that Ulster Is to keep its present representation in WestmiiWo" of 33 (Members while the rest of I-p> ( land Will have only 27. Herein are suifieent elements cf future eonfuson to make anyone distrustful as to the chance of the Bill providing a settlement of the Iritih d : ffbulty. My impression is that the new proposal will not be able to stand the criticism to which it will be subjected and it will be necessary to attempt a new solution as l hope by general consent on Federal n £ s, ,' As , - vou Perhaps are aware. lam a federal Home Ruler; that is, I am in favor of each part of the United [ ivngdom being entrusted with ilm management of its purely domestic affairs, but I am strongly opposed to giving any part of the United Kingdom privileges whir-Ji rannnt bs equally given to other parts. In other words* 1 am strongly opposed to anv «ettlcjnent of the Ir sh difficulty ™ fh P a , sumption that Ireland ii a \m'm-i!o nationality and is eiilil"e;l h v l-a-nn rf separate nationality to separate mil's lne present Bill, even with the ex"lvs'on of Ulster, is open, to my mind, to the (strongest obwct'on because it is based upon an attempt to c've Ireland rights of a separate nationality instead ot only such menu as could, under the Federal sviIfin, such as exists in Canada llm United States and Australia "be 'g"vn to every part." b ■EarlTflrey added that he felt greatly relieved at the _turn events had taken