DEBATE ON JUDICIAL INQUIRY MOTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1914, Page 5

DEBATE ON JUDICIAL INQUIRY MOTION.

CA&SONITE INTERJECTIONS.

"■AN IMPOTENT- DEMAND."

THE VJOTO OF FORCE.

[Press Association.]] • , '■(Received -April 29, 11.50 p:m.) LONDON, April 29. Mr Churchill, in the House «r*r -declared that the fisst ■axiom .of British, justice demanded that ai complainant shouM come to '.court witfoiclean hands. Sir EdwaTrd • Garson and Captain Craig had oeme 'fresh from their gan-runiiing 'exploits. .(Cheers.) Sir Edward Carson sb/euted: """'We •didn't- tell lies about tfoem'l" A , Ministerialist rejoined: "*foh, Carson, tbehave like a Mug I" > Sir Edward Carson retorted: """You | behave like cads." | Mr Churchill • cciitiiaied:" Fresh from their gun-running exploits they • demanded an inquiry imto the 'action I of those responsible -for/(the preservation of law and order.

A -llnionist interjected:: "Why not srrest the criminals'?'"

Mr Churchill: "Is that a that we have been to®..lenient? That is the only accusation 1 am siot prepared to answer." ' Mr Chamberlain <s©axpla:ined '-thsb Mr Asquith. stated that General Orders were given-- .a® .'far 'back as .December that officers domiciled in TTlsterciiiight-disappeaa:. Mr Asquith interjeoted:: "It •Tras told to me, and I made tfhe'•statement in, good faith."

Mir Chamberlaiia ;aeQßpted -Mr . Asquith's, statement. Summing nip Ms charges, against the Government, he said that it appeared (the 'GoTerajnent bad ■. assumed, thatt «jonoiliation was hopeless, unless £hey showed an OTerwhelming display df' force. 'It was dEiucu'lt to knew w¥ich of the statements now suippTied to Mr jMquith were true. He concluded hy suggesting to tlit© IPriime '^finlster not to accept white-wrasliing by "the vote of the party majority., :;bTtt to insist on a judicial inquiry irito tihe dark and tortuous proceedings. Mr Ghurohill said that the motion Was the most audacious and most impudent demand for an inqiiiry in British • records. The x^Bjedt "bf the Ulster army showed thaft if th©'veto «f the House of Lords had gone'there .remained the veto of ferce. Xfter ike rejection of Mr Asapuit'h'Jß offei": to Ulster, it was cleaa: that itihose whoj • were preparing for civil "-' Tear haxi| mother punposes outside 133ster. They were, preparing to vet® +he general I>olicy of! Home Rule. IFkeine was* nothing more disastrous than for the! Opposition to suppose t3aa t t it and its Ulster friends were the only persons; in the country prepared to risi their lives. Could anyone say after what| Jhad occurred in Ulster .that the; measures the Government had taken] were preniature and nnaaeeessajTy!??; IHe proclaimed the right to" puti British troops in Ulster and the Tight-; -to arreat the. leaders. Unfess th©! Uistermen stook life first their own' lives were Hot endangered. ■'