HOME RULE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10751, 26 April 1911, Page 4

HOME RULE.

iHSCUSSION IN THE HOUSE. [Rr Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received April 25. at 10.15 p.m. London. April 25. In the House oi Common.--,, in the deha'..- on clause 2 ot the Veto Bill, Mr ia>iisdale moved an amendment to oxehide Home Rule from the operation of ■■:■■ Hill. The amendment was negatived ■i.y 28-f to ion. .Mr Cory voted against the Government, warning them that so tar several !,- ; >>-rals had abstained from voting. .Mr Lonsdale argued that not 40 per r .-tit. ot the Ministerialists had referred to Home Rule- at last elections. If ili.me Rule were pa.ssed over the heads ni the House of Lords the people of I'lster would not acknowledge its authoritv. nor pav taxes. .Mr Ramsay Macdonald declared that the great mass of the electors decided to give the House of Commons more authority, namely to put the House in a .sovereign - position, to realise Home Rule, and other first-class measures would follow inevitably, hence the willingness of the Irish in America to unite with other sections in favor of President Taft's and Sir E. Grey's treaty. Mr Asquith said clause 2 offered the must'scribus obstacles. It was the most ill-considered portion of the measure. Any Home Rule Bill must be discussed in three sessions, namely over two years. Anvthing passing that ordeal must represent the country's will and. judgment. He quoted his own and also, the Unionist declarations to prove that he made it clear that the majority in favor of the present Bill would be used to carry Home Rule. Mr Balfour declared that Ministers at the -general election laid the whole emphasis on the House of Lords' issue, and throw Home Rule in the background. Received April 26, at 1.10 a.m. London, April 25. , In the Veto debate, Mr Balfour added that Home Rule was the greatest of all issues. It has been disguised, and with the power thus surreptitiously obtained Ministers now intended to override the people's opinion on the Home Rule issue. ' Ministers did not dare submit Home Rule to the test of a general election.

Received April 26, at 10.45 a.m. Hobart, April 26. The Irish delegates, Messrs Redmond, Hazelton, and Donovan, arrived, aboard the Rotorua, and were welcomed by the Acting-Premier. Sir Redmond declared that the people of England were»jn full sympathy with' the Irish movement, and were now engaged in the greatest revolution since the days of Cromwell overthrowing the last vestige of power and prestige of an ascendant party, and declaring that the people must rule. ' , ]\lr Donovan said .they had come to Australia with what they believed to be the.last appeal to sympathisers for financial aid.

Received April 26, at 8.5 a.m. : London, .April 25. Sir P. Magnus moved the exclusion of Kills modifying the Veto Bill.; Mr Asquith' replied that he saw no possibility of the immediate creation of a new second chamber.. This statement was greeted with derisive Unionist cheers. Mr Asquith added that if the amendment was adopted a temporary, precarious and insignificant Unionist .majority could with the House of Lords' co-operation render the operative part of tlie Bill nugatory. ' Mr Balfour retorted that it was clear that Mr Asquith was demanding pouer lo modifv anv part of the constitution with the'aid of a temporary, precarious and insignificant- majority. The amendment was rejected by 288 i.) ISO. N t . Mr Asquith, in reply to Laptam Waring, said the Government's policy would in nowise be modified.