FREE STATE OATH
REMOVAL BILL PASSED WITH LABOUR SUPPORT By Telegraph —Copyright—Press Assn. LONDON, May 19. Tho party Whips summoned every member of the Dail Eireann for the final stages of the Oath Removal Bill, when the chief point of interest was an amendment moved by an ex-Minister, Mr McGilligan, aiming to maintain the Treaty as a superior instrument, whether members take the Oath or not.
A Cosgrave party deputy, Mr Finlay, tabled an amendment designed to preserve the Treaty, particularly in its application to the compensation of Public servants.
Mr Norton, the Labour leader,, de-
I dared that the amendments were de- ; signed more to put the Labour Party • in difficulties than to save the Treaty. Labour did not believe that the aboli- ! tion of the Oath would be an infraction ' of the Treaty. The amendments were defeated by 77 j votes to 69, and the Bill was passed by I the same majority. / It will be submitted to the Senate . on May 25.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 125, 21 May 1932, Page 2
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