FREE STATE SENATE.
AMENDMENT CARRIED. DUBLIN, Jan. 17. The Senate, by 30 votes tc 20, passed Mr J. G. Douglas’s amendment. It is understood that the President (Mr Eamon De Valera) will not accept it apd will exercise his powers under the constitution enabling the Senate’s abolition by formal inotiun in the Dail.
Mr Douglas moved an amendment on January 15 to the Government’s Abolition Bill, stating that the Senate, while not acquiescing in single chamber government, was prepared to agree to abolition of the Senate as at present constituted if the Daii agreed to an amendment securing some form of second chamber. He suggested that a committee of both Houses consider the question.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 42, 18 January 1936, Page 7
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114FREE STATE SENATE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 42, 18 January 1936, Page 7
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