HOME RULE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 11 May 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE.

SECOND READING CARRIED BY

372 TO 271

APPLICATION OF THE CLOSURE

MR ASQUITH ACCORDED AN

'OVATION

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(Received May 11, 8.40 a.m.)

LOi\iX)iN, May 10. In the House or oouimous vie Home Rule Bill was read a second time by 372 to 271, after tne application of the closure.

Sir Clifford Cory (Liberal) voted against the .bill, and Sir Gieorge Kemp (Liberal) abstained from voting.

Mr "W. F. Cotton (member tor Dublin) left the hospital and was carried into the lobby and voted.

Two hundred members of the Irish League, with the Nationalists and other members of the House of Commons, accorded Mr Asquith an ovation when he appeared in tne Palace yard.

During tne course of the debate Mr Redmond stated that underlying all the arguments against the bill there was the assumption that all parties to the new treaty would be animated by bad feeling and malice instead of a desire to make the best of things. It would be to Ireland's highest interest to safeguard her constitution and work it with moderation.

Mr Ramsay Macdonald alluded to his visits to the colonies, where he had seen the healing effects of self-govern-ment.

Mr Bonar Law said no nroof of Ul-

ster's opposition to the Bill would satisfy the Government until there had been bloodshed. The Government arrogated to themselves the exclusive right to judge. It was the ojmiion of the electorate that the Government was not a constitutional but a dictatory one.

Mr Asquith said that federation was necessary for the whole of the United Kingdom, but the claim of Ireland was p/aramount.