mm RULE BILL

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1438, 13 May 1912, Page 5

mm RULE BILL

1 SECOND READING CARRIES, MR. BONAR LAW PREDICTS BLOODSHED, MR. REDMOND'S VIEW. lir Telcgraph-Prcss Association-Copyright London, May 10. After the closure had been applied to the debate on the Homo Rule Bill, the Bill was read 11 second time. The voting was as follows:— For the Bill f} Against the Bill -''■ Sir Clifford Cory (Liberal member for the St. Ives Division of Cornwall) voted against the Bill, ami Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Kemp, a Manchester Liberal, abstained. Mr. W. F. Cotton (Nationalist member for Dublin) left the hospital and was carried into the lobby and voted. Two hundred members of the Irish League, with Nationalists and other members of the House of Commons, accorded | the Primo Minister, Mr. Asquith, an ovation when he appeared in Palace Yard. During the courso of the debate Mr. J. E. Hedmond, Leader of the Nationalists, stated that underlying all the arguments against tlio Bill there was the assumption that all the parties to the new treaty would be animated by bad feeling and malice instead of a desire to make the best of things. It would be to Ireland's highest interest to safeguaid her Constitution and work it with moderation. Mr. liamsay MacDonaid (chairman of the Labour party) alluded to his visits to tho colonics, where he had seen the healiug effect of self-government. Mr. Bonar Law, Leader of the Unionist party, said that no proof of Ulster's opposition would satisfy the Government until there had; been bloodshed. The Government had arrogated to itself the exclusive right to judge the opinion of an electorate. That was not constitutional but dictatory government, Mr. Asquith said that federation was necessary for the whole of the United Kingdom, but the claim of Ireland was paramount. • Mr. Lionel de Rothschild (Unionist) has given notice of an amendment exempting the Counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, and Londonderry from the operation of the Bill. Notice has also been given of several amendments to make the Senate elective on the proportional representation principle, ULSTER IN ARMS. SIR EDWARD CARSON'S PROPHECY. (Rec. May 13, 0.30 a.m.) . London, May 11. Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster Unionist leader, speaking at the Nineteen Hundred Club, declared that no compromise was possiblo on Home Rule, He had never in- brag, but if tho Homo Rule Bill was passed Irish loyalty would have to bo coerced at the point of the bayonet. It was the worst thing for the Army, and dangerous for the Empire. 300,000 MEN READY. London, May 10. Speaking at a conference of the Nonconformist Unionist Association in London, the Lord Mayor of Belfast (Mr. H. J. M'Mordie, M.P. for Cabin Hill, Knock, Belfast), said he did not believe that Home Rule would lead to war, but if it did 300,000 men would be Toady in three days to fight as their ancestors defended County Derry against James 11. WHAT SCOTLAND WANTS. (Rec. May 12, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 11. Mr. T. MacKinnon Wood, Secretary for Scotland, in a speech at Edinburgh, dedared that Scotsmen did not want Home Rule precisely on the Irish model. They wanted to retain all their members at Westminster, not from a selfish motive, but because of the loss to tho Empire if a single Scottish member was withdrawn. The statement was greeted with laughter. CONGRATULATIONS FOR MR. REDMOND, (Reo. May 13, 0.30 a.m.) London, May 11. After the Home Rule division Aft. Redmond was introduced for the first time to Lady Frederick Cavendish, widow of the victim of the Phoenix Park outrage, who warmly congratulated him on the triumph of tho cause which he had at heart for so long. The Phoenix Park murders took place in Dublin on May Si, 1882. Lord Frederick Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Mr. Burke, the Under-Secretary, were assassinated by the Invincibles, an Irish secret society. The assassins escaped, but .were afterwards brought to justice through an informer.