WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

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

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

RIDICULOUS PROTECTION FOR UNIONIST MINORITY. • FIN.ANCIAIT~PROPOSALS ", CRITICISED, COMBINATION 5F MUDDLE AND FRAUD. (Received April 13, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 12fcli April. The Times stated that a Federalism Bill is the only excuse for the retention of forty-two irishmen at Westminster, whose function would be to vote for larger subsidies for Ireland. A Senate nominated first by the Government in Alliance with the Nationalist*, and shortly by the Irish Executive, would be a ridiculous protection for the Unionist minority. The Times also states that Mr; Asquith failed to explain that the Imperial Parliament was really making an annual grant of two millions. The Standard declares the financial proposals are a combination of muddle „ and fraud. The net result is that Great Britain gives the Irish exchequer two millions a year, and Ireland^gets an army and navy for lees than nothing. The Chronicle cays the complexity of tho Bill is a merit. It chows that th« details have been well considered. The newspaper dislikes the idea of a nominated Senate. Colonial experience, it says, has shown that it is incompatible with democracy, and an objectionable precedent for the reform of the House of Lords. > The Daily New* stefce* that the Bill is based on largo, liberal lines. It regrets that Ireland is not given the full "control of the Customs and Excise. Tho Westminster Gazetbe disapproves the nominated Senate.