HOME RULE BILL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10683, 1 February 1913, Page 8

HOME RULE BILL.

' ' * ' BY THE HOUSE OF ; .LORDS. ~S THE CLOSE OF THE DEBATE. 'UnitdS Pxo39 Association —By Electric " '• Telegraph—Copyright. 'if"" 5 ' ' LONDON, January 31. * ' The galleries of the House of Lord (were, crowded. ,* ~svLord Curzon said that the question c finance would create endless frictior 1 -3? or every right the Bill effected, it pei >petrated a. score of wrongs. The Goi eminent had chosen the coercion c Ulster instead of conciliation. Halsbury said that he fe. humiliated in discussing the measim r when everybody knew that the who]

r thing was a farce. - Lansdowne said that the whole echeme was a.'misfit. What was the 'lrish' opinion on which the Government "laid such stress? Who were the Irish -Party ? Lawyers of no particular eminence, "journalists of ho distinction, farm"er'g who were no authorities on agricul'"tnre. " The Irish peasant would sooner -Jjaro a reduction of rent than a share ''offself-government. The colonial analabsolutely worthless - and iur -applicable. -Britain could, not allow • Jreland to_ break away while she had a ibattalion. a battery or a gunboat left , ,-No--amendment, could convert the Bill ' jn't.lv a measure worthy - of. the Statute ■ '~°Lord Morley closed the debate. He •tferided the idea of a .plebiscite on . ; Home Rule as impracticable. Nothing ;>ouia bo worse than the irresponsible 1 cower permeating the Irish admimstra- .. -fern system. The Government behead - '.that th" Bill, if worked m good faith, . "would strengthen the sense. of responsibility, which was the salt of freedom. - (The Home Rule Bill, which has now :fe„ thrown out by the House of Loras, | • -passed the House of Commons, oy a ' of" 110. and its fate in the -U-nper House was quito anticipated.. In" 1886 Mr. Gladstones first, Home 'Rule Bill was rejected by tno House ot 'Commons by 30 votes. In i Gladstone introduced a Home Rule Bill, which passed through the House , of Commons by a majority of 40. but rejected by tho Upper House by L am j._ n \ ' _ % l' ■■ -A