WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 117, 15 May 1912, Page 5

WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.

'.-, ■». [press association.] ■ '. I-. , v. <meeeived "May T4,'S:^o p.m:) '■: ' LONDON, M.sy 14. i In iJh© House of :Gommbns, 'dKia-mg; the second reading tlebate on tin?; Welsli Disestablishment Bill, ;.'Mr '¥ i

:E. SmitX K-P-j «iove<i its rejection.; ;• 'He d^pliaTed^iihait there -were hao/dly; any . Mm%%!&riali^ts ■ who were not-->secretlT a>sliamed of the .proposals;, Supporters w^re g;a:irK3d'by,:aii appall! -to'iheir cu^ktrty. ' . v "j Mr Ellis Griffiths 8.8*3., that ; i.*»fj *\VVlsh i/iberals demiandecli Jthg(t thc%| <«hurch snonld enjoy ithe same rights.-.-■aiicT privileges as th^.-dthers. -i>.i^-' ißstablishmeart ; ; woifld enable the, .church to ■ ,T>pg£;in. contrdl over tUiv ,-!3ritU'alV- . / " •.'.-... ', ■ :-... ', .■' '! Mr Keir • tlsrdie said the Ijabor party stpproved1 of the Bill be- j xsause it wmiM--jsupply .-a.;.precedent €lie abdlitioii M the private ownarr «Kip of land. : ■ ' •>• . .:■ --;" Times says that smn'Tl publiyTfrterost is Tieing shown in the Home •Rinle and I>»estiVb'lishm«nt -dcbiitos. This is one of the inevita rble results of -tlie Tarliument Act. The Icno\vledge th'at-:tlio Hoti.se :oJ': \Lords ;-vill reject both, a-iid tlna't tlie real ooriflipt will be "deferred for • -two deadens the discussion.