HOME RULE BILL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1579, 24 October 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE BILL.

POWERS OF PARLIAMENT, LANGUAGE QUESTION. MORE AMENDMENTS REJECTED By Telegraph—Press Aesociation-Copyriehl London, October 22. The House of Commons yesterday continued the discussion on the Homo Bute Bill in Committee. The Government accepted an ninendtnent. removing Trinity College, Dublin, nnd Queen's University, Belfast, from the control of the Irish Parliament. Hr. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, thought the demand was unnecessary. Mr.' J. E. Redmond. leader of the Nationalist Party, raised no objection to the amendment. '. (Rec. October' 23, 9.15 p.m.) London, October 23. I The House of Commons, by 328 votes to 222 rejected nn amendment to the Home ' Rule Bill reserving to the British Parliament power to maintain English as the sole lahguagc of tho Irish Parliament •and the Law Courts. The amendment would also have prevented the Irish Parliament from disqualifying candidates for public positions oil the ground that they did not know Gaelic. l The clause was then guillotined, shutting- out lf-1 amendments to.. Clauses 1 and 2. . : . Mr. Birrell, Secretary for Ireland, in debating.an amendment withholding from the Irish Parliament power to disestablish. any religion promised to introduce words to secure, that the Constitutions of religious bodies should not be interfered with except at the' denomination's:-'owa flesirc, i The amendment was then withdrawn. APPEAL FOR THE BILL. (Rec. October 23, 9.15 p.m.) London, October 23. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. Joseph Socking, Mr. D. V. Pirie, and Sir Frederick Pollock,, and Sir West Kidgewny, in a manifesto stated that they did support Mr. ■ Gladstone's Homo Rule, but ■were convinced that some form of Home Rule is necessary to remove a standing danger to the Empire. The present Bill was an honest endeavour and should be! passed. •■' • •'