Merely Forerunner of Dictatorship
SENATE BLOCKS DE VALERA’S DESIGNS Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. DUBLIN, July 12. The Senate by 30 votes to 7 defeated the Government’s Bill altering tne Free State Constitution and reducing the Senate’s powers. One proposal was the Senate’s right to hold up a Bill from 18 months to three. Instead the Senate carried a motion appointing a committee of five Senators and five members of the Dail to consider the Senate’s present constitution. Senator Counihan declared the Senate to be the only safeguard between the people and a single Chamber. The Bill was merely the forerunner of further legislation intended to wipe out the Senate and create a dictatorship.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1933, Page 6
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