THE BILL PASSED

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7

THE BILL PASSED

ULSTERITES LEAVE THE CHAMBER

TIME FOR SOUTHERN ELECTIONS

EXTENDED.

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(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 6th March.

In the House of Commons, in the debate in conimittee on the Irish Free State Bill, Mr. T. Moles's amendment providing that the Crown's representative should not exercise jurisdiction and authority over Northern Ireland was withdrawn. .

Mr. Churchill then moved the closure, and a sub-sectian was carried, despite Ulster members' angr.y protests against

the gag Later, Mr. Churchill refused to accept other amendments.

Captain Craig said he refused to take part in the other discussion. While the Government refused to alter a single lino of the Bill at the request of Ulster members, yet when Sinn Feiners in Dublin passed a resolution necessitating a change, the Government immediately agreed.

All the Ulstermen thereupon walked out, one crying, "We will debate the Bill elsewhere."

Official. —An amendment was carried extending the time to four months for the South . Irish, elections. Thereafter several members of the House of Commons who gave notice of amendments declined to move them, as a protest against the action of the Government regarding previous amendments. The Bill was passed.