IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 15032, 14 November 1912, Page 6

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. WILL RESCIND THE ADVERSE AMENDMENT. UNIONIST CRITICISM. Pre«* Association—By TelegiapH—Copyright. LONDON, November 15. The Government will allow two days for the . discussion on the motion to rescind Sir F. G. Banbury's amendment to the Home Rule Bill. Friday is reserved for a discussion on the Welsh Disestablishment Bill; hence the discussion of the closure resolution on the Home Rule Bill has been postponed till Monday. The parliamentary correspondent of ‘ The Times says the Government are creating a precedent by rehabilitating the Home Rule Bill. The Unionists take the most serious view of such a breach of parliamentary practice, and numerous meetings of protest were held last night. Speaking at Lambeth. Mr Austen Chamberlain compared the Government party to the overladen and overdriven horse slipping and breaking its knees. The party were beaten on Monday because they were tired of being dragged through the lobbies at staled times to chop off their opponents' heads. Speaking at Walworth, Lord Selborne said that on Monday the Unionists had hit thn Government straightlv and squarelv between the eyes. There was a time when a Government would have resigned after such a defeat, because they were aware that the House of Lords could force an appeal to the electors. Now, however, having secured themselves against the House of Lords and against the electors, and having KSB8 ec * and muzzled their opponents in the House of Commons, and paid £4OO a year to the members of the House of Commons, Mie Government were going to ignore an adverse vote.

Speaking at St. Pancras. Sir E. Carson said the Government cared no more for their opponents’ vote than for a speech which had been gagged. Had the Government been honest, they would, in view of the European situation, have gone to the House of Commons, admitted thendefeat, and asked their opponents whether, if the Home Rule Bill was dropped, the Government would receive the moral support of the whole House to enable them to carry into the concert of Europe the whole weight of the United Kingdom. The Unionists would gladly have given it. and they would give it even now. THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. HYPERSENSITIVE LIBERALS. LONDON, November 15. In the House of Commons the Criminal Law Act Amendment Bill, dealing with the white slave traffic, was read a third time. A number of Liberals protested againstflogging. The Bill provides that it shall not be inflicted on exploiters of women for the first offence. AN OVERSEAS MESSAGE. MELBOURNE. November 14. (Received November 14. at 10.5 a.m.) Under the auspices of the Ulster and Local Irishmen’s Association a meeting in the Town Hall carried an anti-Horne Rule resolution, which will be forwarded to Sir E. Carson. EXCITEMENT IN THE HOUSE. OPPOSITION CLAMOROUS. SIR’R. ISAACS SHOUTED DOWN. LONDON, November 15. (Received November 14, at 12.12 p.m.) Mr Asquith moved the rescission of the Banbury amendment, which, he said, made it impossible for the Government to proceed with the Bill. If the House reaffirmed Sir F. Banbury’s amendment he would accept the decision. (Opposition cries of “ Cheap bluff!") The Speaker, replying to Mr Bonar Law, said the motion was in order, though it was unprecedented. Still, he would not say that the House should never form a new precedent. The Opposition hotly criticised the Government. Mr Bonar Law moved to adjourn the debate, which was negatived by 109. Sir F. Banbury moved that a question is once decided it should not again be raised during the same session. The proposed rescission was an affront to the Commons’ previous decision. Scenes of disorder followed, and the sitting was suspended for an hour. Sir Rufus Isaacs was refused a bearing. THE HOUSE ADJOURNS. LONDON, November 13. (Received November 14, at 12.30 p.m.) On the House resuming the disorder was renewed. The Speaker then adjourned it until to-morrow.