TRUSSING THE UNION

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 5

TRUSSING THE UNION

COLOUR BAR ACCEPTED, WITH A DESIRE FOR ITS REMOVAL. COMMONS' GOOD WiISHES. (ft* tfeleSrapb.-Pfes* AmoclaU6d.-OoOTrfetil.li (Bee. August 20, 1046 p.m.) London, August 20.' * The South African 'Union Bill passed through Committee of tho House of Coma tnon-s. The Loader of'the Opposition, Mr. i * BaLfotir, supported Mr. Asqaith's resistance £ * to Radical and Labourite amendments ooti- t 6 cerhing tho colour bar. I The Bill later on was read 4 third time, t > Mr. A. Lupton (Liberal) being tho Only dis- c ■' sentient. ' i Mr. Asquitb, in commending tho action of Parliament in yielding to the considered 1 judgment of South Africa, said that ho hoped < 1 that the views strongly expressed ill tho < j House of Commonßj practiehliy without any • " dissent, would induce tho Unioil Parliament ( sooner , or later—sooner rather than later—to < spontaneously relax What the majority of = members of tho House of Commons regarded iis ilhiiece-ssiiry restrictions upon the electoral rights and eligibility of our native . 0 follow subjects in South Africa. Ho added ■ * that the House of Commons wiAhod tho prasont magnificent experiment all possible suc--6 cos's. ' ' 6 Mr. Walter Long, on behalf of the OpiMraltioii, endorsed in the strongest andiiiost ! ' dordial way, Mr". AsquithV statesmanlikespeech, which, ho said, represented tho feeling of tho whole of the House of Com- • mons. (Cheers.) ' 8