HOME RULE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 25 October 1912, Page 7

HOME RULE.

POWERS OF IRISH PARLIAMENT

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT,

(Received Oct. 25, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 24. Mr James Hope's amendment to clause 4, to bring the Irish Executive itnder the control of the Imperial Parliament was negatived by 280 to 190. Mr Bin-ell said if the Irish Parliament was intended to have live force and responsibility, it must have executive control.

Mr Jialfour ridiculed the clause, and' said he foresaw chaos if the Executive resigned owing to the Lord-Lieutenant exercising his' veto. Sir E. Carson said the Government was not prepared to give the Irish full rights^ of self-governing because it mistrusted them, and because Ireland refused to assume in full the financial obligations whereon the rights of every, self-governing colony were based. Greatly as he loathed the Bill, if Ireland must have Home Rule, he would much rather »cc it work out its own destiny in its own way than have this hybrid monster, which did not embody "any constitution.

t Mr Rufus Isancs complained that the Unionists were insisting on safeguards and then refusing them? He added that the Government was unable to treat Ireland like a self-governing dominion, liecause the relations were different.