HOME RULE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144147, 17 July 1913, Page 3

HOME RULE.

DEBATE IN THE LORDS. OLD ARGUMENTS REPEATED. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. COPYRIGHT. LONDON, July 16. Tho debate on the Home Rule Bill was continued in the House of Lords. Lord Curzon said that the Opposition wanted an election because it wanted to avert civil war. Lord Moreley was repeatedly pressed by the Opposition to say whether troops would be ordered to fire on loyalists, but refused to answer. He said that he was confident that in a difficulty or a dangerous crisis the authorities would do all that public duty imposed upon them for tho maintenance of order. Ho contended that a referendum or a dissolution before a Bill was passed would be a greater blow to parliamentary authority than anything in tho Parliament Act. Ho was sure that when the Irish Party had a Parliament of its own it would show the same statesmanlike spirit ae it had shown hitherto Bad make it a success. Lord Loreburn appealed again for a comprehensive settlement by consent, consultation and goodwill. If the effort failed, then it would be time for a general election. Lord Londonderry emphasised the unanimity and determination of the Irish Protestants against Home Rule. Lord Linlithgow, in a maiden speech, said the Bill was (jalculated to infuriate beyond measure the people of Ulster, without assuaging a single existing difficulty. The archbishops and six bishops present voted with the majority. The Bishops of Oxford and Hereford, who in 1912 voted for the Bill, were absent.

SPEECH BY LORD LOREBURN. SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLE. (Received July 17, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. Lord Loreburn contributed an impressive speech in the Homo Rule debate. He said that there still remained ■rv months before the Bill will be able to- be reintroduced, and if the time waa not spent in looking for difficulties, hot in trying ,to assuage them he had enough faith to believe that some agreemerd was attainable, carrying the consent of all parties, without which it would be of little value. If they Were successful, it would, confer a priceless benefit on England in the hour of danger. THE LORDS’ DEBATE. (Received July 17, 8.0 a.m.) LONDON- July 16. Tho Times, in a leading article, deals with Hie debate in the House of Lords on the Home Rule question, saying that tho special feature was the speeches in favour of Lord Lansdowno’s amendment. They exhibited from different points of view a very just and sympathetic insight into tho Irish problem. The policy of the Government, on the other hand, revealed more and more closely a policy dictated by a section, which, for that very reason, could never succeed.