HOME RULE BILL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1177, 12 July 1911, Page 7

HOME RULE BILL.

MR. TIM HEALY'S PROPHECY. By Telegraph-Press Aasociation-Oopyrieht London, July 10. Mr. Tim Healy has been adopted as a candidate for North-east Cork. Speaking to the electors, Mr. Healy said he believed that tho Home Rule Bill would be more disappointing than the Irish Councils Bill, which had been unanimously rejected after Mr. Redmond and the Secretary of State had accepted it. He believed that the new Bill would prove a swindling financial arrangement for Ireland. THE FINANCES OF HOME RULE. Mr. John Redmond, M.P., in a letter to the Irish newspapers at the beginning of last month defined the position of the Irish party on the question of the committee appointed by the Cabinet to assist them in procuring information on the finances of the Home Rule Bill. Mr. Redmond said when the preparation of the Homo Rule meastiro became a matter of urgency he was brought face to lace with the alternative courses which might be adopted in that vitally-important business. The Nationalist party might, ho pointed out, assist the Government. "The other course was to leave the Government, on their own responsibility, to Ecek for information in whatever' way seemed best to them, as is the invariable custom of the Cabinet when preparing every largo measure, the Irish party accepting noreseponsibility whatever for thn method adopted by tho Government" That is the course that was taken. Mr. Redmond continued: "But I foel bound to state my own belief that the situation is one of extreme delicacy, and that it would not be wise for the party to make themselves responsible for, or to' adyise. the formation of any committee, nr to tnfco any cither step which would in any degree interfere with or fetter their absolute liberty of action in tho critical and trying times that are before us Finance is, undoubtedly, of vital importance; but it is inoxtricablv bound up with questions nf politics and tactics, and. in my judgment, the Trtsh party would do wisely to maintain its absolute freedom anil independence to net, from time to time, in this, as in all other matters, ns they judge best for the interests of Trelaiul."