DISESTABLISHMENT.
SECOND READING DEBATESMALL PUBLIC INTEREST BEING SHOWN. By Telezraph-Press Association-Copyrielit. (Rec. May 14, 8.40 p.m.) London, May It. In the House of Commons the Disestablishment iiill came up for its second reading and debate. Mr. F. E. Smith, Unionist, moved its rejection and declared that there was hardly any Ministerialist who did not secretly feel ashamed at the proposals; such support as they gained was due to an aplieal to cupidity.
Ellis .T. Griffith, K.C., Liberal, said that the Welsh Liberals demanded that tho Church should enjoy the same rights and liberties as others. Disestnbliehment would enable the Church to Tegain control over the ritual.
Mr. Keir Hardie, on behalf of the Labour party, approved of the Bill because it would supply a precedent for tho abolition of private ownership in land.
"Tho Times" states that small public interest is being shown in the Home Rulo and Disestablishment debates, which was one inevitable result of the Parliament Act. Tho knowledge that the Lords rejected both measures and that the real conflict will bo deferred for two years deadens the discussion.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1440, 15 May 1912, Page 7
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181DISESTABLISHMENT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1440, 15 May 1912, Page 7
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