SOME RENUNCIATION OF DREAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 5

SOME RENUNCIATION OF DREAMS.

MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN'S OPINION. GENERAL APPROVAL. Mr. William O'Brien, whilo reserving bis judgment upon details of the Bill, generally approved of it. He said that if it were accepted as a final i*ettlement it would involve some renunciation, of dreams which the Nat,ionaliet6 had formerly cherished. Ho regretted that Cabinet had not accepted the recommr^datiun of -their pwg expert commit-

tee which favoured giving Ireland fiscal independence. Apparently Ireland was to have control of the excise, which was exhausted as a eo'urce of revenue, and power to devise new taxes, but Custom* duties were to be eettled by the Imperial Parliament. He was afraid that this dual control of the Irish purse would not turn out happily. He congratulated the Government upon ite determination to complete land purchase upon the Imperial credit. 'It the Irish people accepted the Bill he would give it his loyal support regardless of narrow eectional interests. Mr. A. J. Balfour moved the adjournment of the debate.