HOME RULE BILL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1418, 19 April 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE BILL.

FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. UNIQUE PROVISIONMINISTERS TO SPEAK IN EITHER HOUSE. By Telegraph—Prcse Arisorlatlon—CoDjrluM (Ree. April 18, 10.10 p.m.) London, April 18. Tho Homo Rule Bill consists of fortyeight clauses. There is 110 preamble. Tho Bill provides that ono-fourth of tho Sonalors shnll reliro every second year. Tho Senato is debarred from amending or rejecting money Hills. Tho Ministers nro empowered to speak in either House, but to voto only in that to which they belong. The Bill provides, ad hoc, Irish representation in tho Imperial Parliament when tho time is opportune for tho revision of tho financial provisions, eo aa to mako Ireland's representation in the Houso of Commons equivalent to Great Britain's on a population basis. Tho second reading will probably bo • taken prior to tho Whitsunlido recess. Sir J. B. Lonsdale, Unionist member for Mid-Armagh, gavo liuticc of a motion in favour of tho rejection of (lie Bill. ALL FOR IRELAND LEAGUE.' NO EMERGENCY YET. - (Roc. April 18, 10.10 p.m.) London, April 18. A manifesto signed by Messrs. O'Brien and Healy states that they will not hesitate to summon a conference of tho All for Ireland League to discuss tho Bill in tho event of ail emergency requiring action. Meanwhile, iii view of the impossibility of passing any Homo Rule, they doprccatc scctional demonstrations for or against the Bill. . •FINANCIAL PROVISIONS' CRITICISED. London, April 17. "The Times" says that <1 system of embryo federal finance is being applied to Ireland, Meanwhile Ireland, however, is not to contribute 0110 penny for Imperial purposes, until some unspecified, date, though receiving an annual grant of .£2,000,000, which is only defensible while she is part of the United Kingdom. The text of the Bill has been issued. Tho Senators' term of ollice is for eight years, and that of members of the llouso of Commons for five years. Parliament is summoned for September, 1913, at which date tho Irish members at Westminster will Tesign,