SCOTLAND SEEKS HOME RULE.
MANIFESTO ISSUED. NEED FOR DEVOLUTION AS GREAT AS IN IRELAND. AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE SEIZED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. August 5, 10.30 p.m.) London, August 5. A Scottish National Conmutteo, ineluding Messrs. 11. C. Munro-i'crguson (Leith Burghs), G. N. Barnes (Blackfriars,, Glasgow),' Sir H. J. Dalziel (Kirkcaldy Burghs), and eighteen other members of the House of Commons, has issued a manifesto to the people of Scotland in favour of Home Rule.
Tho manifesto declares that the current proposals for electoral reform, and the settlement , of. the constituency question, offers an opportunity of reorganising Parliamentary business on the' ba-sis of devolution. Scotland's claim for Home Rule, it is urged, is as urgent as Ireland's. The Scottish Office is declared to bo tho closest of bureaucracies. Tho system must be'revised so as to leave each part of the United Kingdom the control of its own affairs, while Parliament transacts the business of the Empire.
In. 1908 a Bill to Rive Scotland Home Rule was introduced into Parliament, but was not treated seriously. It provided for the establishment of a legislative body, to be called the Scots Parliament, which would be empowered to make laws dealing with Scottish local affairs.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 5
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201SCOTLAND SEEKS HOME RULE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 5
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