IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15063, 9 February 1911, Page 7

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

ELECTION INCIDENTS.

MATTERS FOR INQUIRY.

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LONDON, Fobruary 7.

With tho consent of Mr Asquith, tho Houso of Commons referred to the Committee on Privileges the matters of Lord Roden's voting at the Down South election and of Lord Aberdeen's sending a message on Homo Ride to Mt J. M. Henderson, M.P. for Aberdeenshire, during tho recent ekction.

ADDRESS-IN-REPLY DEBATE.

NUMEROUS AMENDMENTS,

LONDON, February 7. Twenty of the amendments to the Ad-dress-in-Reply relate to the Second Chamber, and others relate to immigration, undesirable aliens, and women's suffrage. Another regrets the absence of proposals to enable the overseas dominions to participate more actively in tho general management of the Empire in matters of legislation, administration, and defence.

Air Ramsay Macdonald raises unemployment questions.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

LONDON, February 8. (Received Feb. 8, at 10.40 p.m.) In the course of the Address-in-Reply debato in the House of Commons Mr Campbell (Dublin University) arraigned Mr Birrell for his inaction regarding the Papal decree, even refusing to intervene in the case of Mrs M'Cann, whose children had been taken away because eho refused to be married in a Catholic Church when a priest alleged that her offspring were illegitimate. Mr Birrell said tho M'Cann case was a distressing one. The wife's redress was through a civil court. Presbyterian ministers were less interested in the woman than in using the case as an example of what would happen when Ireland had secured Home Rule,

A vituperative debate followed between the Irish Unionists and the Nationalists, the totter stating that Mrs M'Cann's bad temper was the cause of her husband hiding the children.