COSGRAVE MINISTRY

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1930, Page 7

COSGRAVE MINISTRY

DEFEAT IN THE DAIL RESIGNATION CONSIDERED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, March 28. The Free State Government was defeated by 66 votes to 64 on the second reading of a private member’s Old Age Pensions Bill, which the Republicans introduced. Twenty deputies were absent when the critical vote was taken. The Cabinet are sitting, in order to decide whether to resign. If President Cosgrave should resign he will probably be succeeded by Mr. Eamonn De Valera, who now’ is en route to Dublin from the United States. GOVERNMENT RESIGNS. . LONDON, March 28. The Irish Free State Government has resigned. DE VALERA’S STATEMENT (Recd. March 29, 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 28. De Valera, interviewed at Chicago to-day said that he would answer the call to the Presidency of the Free State if the Dail Eireann summoned him, adding. — “If I were selected by the Dail I would form a Fianna Fail government. It is a situation offering many possibilities and is an interesting historical event. It marks the resignation of the party that so far has been working under the Treaty. Our party has been endeavouring for some time to obtain a majority in the Dail to carry out its declared politics.”