HOME RULE BILL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12927, 22 November 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE BILL.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) I LONDON, Nov. 21. After the closure the report on the financial resolutions was carried by 317 votes to 195. •Mr Balfour condemned the power invested] m the Exchequer Board, which would-be able to establish Protectionist duties' inconsistent with the ' independence of the British and Irish Chancellors of the Exchequer. Sir Edward challenged the point that' a single advantage to Ireland would be gained by* the Bill. All the Government wanted was to grant Home Rule because it had to. , Ireland would lose' the power of borrowing under Imperial credit. Increased taxation was the Bill's keynote.

NATIONALISTS CAUGHT NAPPING. LONDON, Nov. 15. A leader in the Times say's: "The House of Commons niay be kept at the heel of Home Rule by a closer application of the military law, but the writing is cm the wall, .and whatever Parliament'may deterihine iri the next few weeks, it is niore certain than ever that' 'the Bill will r never become law."

Mr Redmond, leader ■ of the. Irish party, has issued a -warning '-to' his" followers, •' declaring that a hostile amendment against' the Home Rule Bill/ similar to that which was carried on Tuesday would necessarily be disastrous. He severely reproved those members who were absent . from the division.

It is understood that tlie King is in close touch with . the Cabinet over the Home Rule crisis. Lord Knollys, the King's private secretary,' will have att interview with Mr Asquith pn'lMoftday..

It is thought tliat Mr Asquith will probably move to have "the procedure of the House, amended, sd 'that Sit* F.reder-. ick Blinbury's aniendmerit to the Horhe" Ru_9 Bill may be rescinded in accordance with parliamentary practice. . Labor rhembers are arigry at the id«_a_ of the ! Government altering its course of action: 1 They rii'aintain that the .questjo ri at stake is whether Parliamentary go-' vernment can be conducted, iri' the teeth of a hostile minority. ' Marty supporters of the Government would ' have preferred to see order restored in the Chamber byv wpolesale sus-'---pensions of rowdy Conservatives! . .'■'-'.: , Sir Edward G>rsoii'hi_-3 announced thai. 442,000 persons-ill Ulster'- have _signed the : Anti-Home Rule covenant." i : '• : :*. *

A- oqrif erenee of the Uriibriist organisation was held "at the Queen's Hall. Therewas an enorm6us attendance. Mr Bonar?] "Law _ -laid that England at the preseilt! time Was governed; by- the worst of all possible gOvernmentSj ■■'$>■ government ; of gamblers and adventurers; a governmenti which, if it were allowed to; carry out . its prdgraihme, • would, lead the do untry « to headlong ruin.- ■-■.-•' ■