HOME RULE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 19 April 1912, Page 6

HOME RULE.

A MOTION FQPt REJtCTION.

THE SENATE AND -MONEY BILLS. {Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON. April 18. The Home Rule Bili consists of 48 clauses. There is no preamble. It provides that one-fourth of the senators shall retire every second vear. Th e Senate is debarred from amending or rejecting money Bills. are empowered to speak in either House, hut shall vote only in that to which they b-long. The Dill provides ad hoc Ivish representation in the Imperial Parliament ivhen the time :s opportune for revision of the financial provisions making representation in the House of Commons equivalent to Britain's on a population basis.

The second reading of the Bill will proba\>ly be taken prior to the Whitsuntide recess.

3:r J. B. Lonsdale gave notice of mo "lion in favour of its rejection.

A manifesto signed by Messrs O'Brien, T. Healy and Maurice Healy, states that they will not hesitate to summon a conference of the All for Ireland League to discuss the Bill, in the event of an emergency requiring action. Meanwhile they view as an impossibility tho passing of any Home Rule measure, and deprecate sectional demonstrations for or agairtst the Bill.

LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND

(Received AdHI 19. 9 a.m.l LONDON. April 18.

The Bill removes the religious disability attending the appointment of the Irish Lord-Lieutenant, and fixes the salary at £6CCO.