IRISH HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 12, 11 May 1912, Page 3

IRISH HOME RULE.

;Bv Electric Telegraph--Copyright (United Ureas Association.! (Received 11; 8.40 a.rn.) London, May 10. In the House of Commons, tin Home Rule Bill was read a second time T>y 372 to 271, after the applies) lion of the'closure. Sir Clifford Cor;, voted against, and Sir George Kemy abstained. Mr Cotton left the hospital, and was carried into the lobb> and voted. Two hundred member! of the Irish League, with Nationalist* and other members of the House o! Commons, accorded Mr Asquith a< ovation, when he appeared in the Pal ace yard. In the course of the debate, Mi Redmond stated that underlying al the arguments against the Bill them was the assumption that all partas to the new treaty would be animates by had feeling and malice, instead o> a desire to make the best- oi tilings. It would he to Ireland’s highest inter est to safeguard her constitution ant work it with moderation. Mr Ramsay McDonald alluded to h'u visits to the colonics, where he had seen the leading effects of self-govern-ment. Mr Bonar Law said no proof o! Ulster’s opposition would satisfy tin Government until there had been blood shed. The Government arrogated t. themselves the exclusive right to judge the. opinion of an electorate. lhat was not a constitutional but a dictator! al Governrnont. Mr Asquith said the federation was necessary of the whole of ti.o Li.kco Kingdom, but the claim ol Ire.and aas pa ramount.