GREAT TENSION
EXCITEMENT IN HOUSE OF COMAIONS. ' :*. ■'■•;"..
(Received March 10, v 10.15.:a.hv.) .. LONDON/. March 9, The House of Commons. was ■ crowded, and members, unable, to" find accommodation" on the ..floor, of the- Chamber/" we.re seated in the galleries. Great tension prevailed through quest-ion time... - ■..Mr Asquith, Air. Bonar,,Law,. and' Sir Edward- Carson received -ovations..
Air Asquith arose amidst, great cheering and said/. he was .offering, suggestions N which did not mean .running away "from ■[. the:: original; Bill. Be' desired, to give the Bill-a start with, the greatest of success. .:,, There was: a. prospect of - aciite.: dissatisfaction and. civil ■.strife, yet if the Bill was shipwrecked,, ; mutilated or postponed. The outlook was .equally : -,. ..•'. formidable. .Any settlement, 'therefore/ must involve the acceptance qr,\he. principle of'the Irish parliament >vith special treatment: to Ulster beyond the. safeguards provided in the Bill. ...
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 10 March 1914, Page 5
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