FREE STATE SENATE
QUESTION OF ABOLITION LAST STAND COMMENCED Received Jan. 16, 9.24 p.m. DUBLIN, Jan. 15. The Senate began its las.t stand against abolition when the Government’s Bill with that object was debated. Mr. Douglas moved an amendment that the Senate, while not acquiescing to single-chamber Government, was prepared to agree to the abolition of the Senate as at present constituted. If the Dail agreed to an amendment accepting some form of second chamber, he suggested that a committee of both. Houses consider the question. Mr. Douglas argued that the country had never mandated its authority to a bare-majority Dail to amend the articles of constitution without reference to the people. If the Senate went, the Dail could abolish any article, even the provisions summoning the Dail yearly and an election every five years. Even the independence of the judiciary was threatened, as formerly a judge could be removed only by a resolution of both Houses. Mr. McLoughlan believed that Mr. de Valera was making the trench of the partition from Ulster wider and deeper. The debate was adjourned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 14, 17 January 1936, Page 7
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180FREE STATE SENATE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 14, 17 January 1936, Page 7
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