ABOLITION BILL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 April 1934, Page 5

ABOLITION BILL

FREE STATE SENATE SUPPORTED BY LABOUR (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 18th April. Mi- de Valera, in moving the second reading of the Senate Abolition Bill, said tlic? Senate was a non-representative chamber and prevented a representative House carrying out the people s will. It opposed major measures since the Lianna Fail took office, though it had not previously done so. A cheapen and more useful * revising House could 1)0 provided if necessary. Members of the Dad were the best judges of what the people wanted. Mr Cosgravc opposed the Bill as interfering with the independence of the judiciary. Its enactment would give the constitution its death blow The pretext of expenditure was invalid because the Government spent in one day on the Anglo-Irish economic dispute what would keep the Senate for a year. Mr O’Sullivan said Mr dc Valera was drifting towards a dictatorship. The Bill was introduced because the majesty of the president-emperor, Mr de Valera, was piqued. Mr O’Higgins said the Government wanted the Senate to be a mere body oi “yesmen.” Mr Norton announced that Labour would support the Bill. The debate was adjourned. REPUBLICAN LEADER ARRESTED AT CORK LONDON, 18th April. Tom Barry, prominent Republican leader at Cork, was arrested on a charge of the illegal possession of a machine gun and .‘lB4 rounds of ammunition. He will be tried by a military tribunal at Dublin.