HOME RULE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1587, 2 November 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE.

MR. BIRRELL'S AMENDMENT , CARRIED. ?*B» TelesraDh-rress ABaoolation-aonyrlßlil London, October 81. i ~Tho Chief Secretary for Ireland (Mr. A. jßirrell) has moved an amendment regarding the clause dealing with tlio Senate on the lines mentioned in yesterday's mesThe Leader of tho Opposition (Mr. SBonar Law) twitted the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquitb) with only making up his blind on an entirely new Constitution on tho morning of tho day on which ho announced the change. If tho whole Senate, declared Mr. Bonar Law, voted with tho Irish Unionists at a joint sitting, thero would still be « majority of eighty or ninety against the latter. Therefor* it was a mere pretonco to say that the minority were safeguarded. Mr. Birrell's amendment vaa carried by 898 t0.209. SPEECH BY LORD SBLBORNB. (Reo, November. 1, 10 p.m.) „ London, October 81. 1 Lord Selborne, speaking at Basingstoke, protested against the tyranny of the Home Rule policy. A referendum was the only cure for log-rolling. Ulster might be coerced, but Home Rule would still bo 'unworkable. NEW ZEALAND STANDS ALOOF, QUESTION-IN PARLIAMENT. ' ¥ Resolutions of'tho Young Ireland party were recently transmitted to the Prime Minister from Auckland, requesting him to move in the House this session that a petition should be made by the New, Zealand Parliament to the King, praying that a Constitution as outlined in the ; ,:••-:■. ;. ; Irish,H6me ; Rul«> Bill-should be granted -, : •>•• :;.; ; h; ■■" : 'S '""■«■" '■"'•.;" 7 -Yesterday'afternoon Mr. Glover-(Auck- ' I land Central) asked the Prime .Minister: ;;■....-whether; he proposed to; oomply.. with.the ■'■>■- ' ! request.'-'■,■'.'■'■'.-..>';'-.'.-'■'■■ v-:^---\? ; \'. : - : ■";■'• ■'■:; .'Mr. Massey'said hahad replied to the: .*■' Icommiinioation, and would give tho House ■'"■■' the effeot4f'his letter. 1 ,' T 'l cannot/see. ..! my'.way to ask the' New Zealand Parlia- '■". mentto'ihterfere with the.;.'question of: >--' -'-Home-Rule,'' said Mr^Massey.'t:'- : , : '■: -:',. 'Bohl members:. Hear,- hear. / r . .. •;,