HOME RULE BILL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 7

HOME RULE BILL.

MOTION TO REJECT IT FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THE MEASURE.

by Telegraph.'-- -Press .Association.— Copyright, LONDON, 18th April. The text of the Home Rule Bill consists of forty-eight clauses, without a preamble. The measure • provides that one- fourth of the Senators enall retire every second year, ai][d the Senate 'is debarred from amending or rejecting money Bills. Ministers arc empowered to speak in either House, but to vote only in that to which they belong. The Bill provides for ad hoc Irish representation in tho Imperial Parliament when the time is opportune for revision of the financial provisions, making Ireland's representation in the House of Commons equivalent to Britain's on a population basis. The 'second reading of the Bill will probably be taken before the Whitsuntide recess. Sir John Lonedale (Unionist-— Mid Armagh) has given notice of a motion for the rejection of the Bill. _ A manifesto signed by Messm William O'BrieD and Maurice and Tim Healy (all Independent Natipnalists) states that they will not hesitate to summon a conference of the All for Ireland League to discuss the Bill in the event of an emergency requiring action. Meanwhile, in view of the impossibility of passing any Honie Rule measure they deprecate sectional demonstrations for or against the Bill.