ATTACK ON SENATE
FREE STATE BILL DEFEATED AIMING AT DICTATORSHIP? Received July 12, 11.55 p.m. ‘DUBLIN, July 12. Tho Senate, by 30 votes to 7, defeated the Government’s Bill altering the Free State Constitution and reducing the Senate’s powers. Ono proposal was to reduce the Senate’s right to hold up a Bill from 18 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 Counihan declared that the Senate was the only safeguard between tho people and the single chamber. The Bill was merely the forerunner of further legislation intended to wipe out the Senate and create a dictatorship.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 163, 13 July 1933, Page 5
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117ATTACK ON SENATE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 163, 13 July 1933, Page 5
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