MEANS CIVIL WAR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 105, 3 May 1912, Page 7

MEANS CIVIL WAR.

HOME RULE DEBATE. FINANCIAL PROPOSAL IMPRACTICABLE PROTESTANT REPRESENTATION. By Teleeraph.- Press Association.— Copyrlsh*. LONDON, 2nd May. Tho debate on th« motion for the second reading of the Home Rule Bill was continued in the Houso of Commons yesterday. Sir Robert Finlay, Unioniet member for Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities) warned the Government that persistence" with the Bill would mean civil war. If federalism was the object then Ulster's claim for separate treatment was irresistible. Colonel Seely, Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Army Council, oaid that if the Nationalist leaders meant what they said religious intolerance and persecution would be impossible. He believed the Irish would work under the Bill honourably, and make Ireland a bulwark of British liberties. Mr. William O'Brien, Leader of the Independent Nationalists, declared that the Bill would effect a reconciliation, but its financial proposal were impracticable and could not be final. The truest safeguard would be to give Protestants a firm grip on the Irish Parliament. Half the Senators and on© fourth of the members of the Lower House should be Protestants.