FREE STATE CONSTITUTION
REDUCING SENATE’S POWER UPPER HOUSE REJECTS BILL DICTATORSHIP PREDICTED COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE By Telegraph—Press Association. Rec. 7 p.m. Dublin, July 12. The Senate by 30 votes to seven defeated the Government’s Bill altering the Free State constitution and reducing the Senate’s powers. One proposal was to reduce the Senate’s right to hold up a Bill from eighteen months to three. Instead the Senate carried a motion appointing a committee of five senators and five members of the Dail to consider the Senate’s present constitution. Senator J. C. Counihan declared the Senate was the only safeguard between the people and a single chamber. The Bill was merely a forerunner of further legislation intended to wipe out the Senate and create a dictatorship.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1933, Page 5
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