HOME RULE CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 20 November 1912, Page 7

HOME RULE CRISIS.

'. A■ . " " —'■ -■ —. ■ •. , -UNIONIST AMENDMENT DELETED. statement by premier, Association—Copyright • • London, November 18. ySTilan tho Hou3o of' Commons'-mot to-. i4y,f;o consider, in oonimittea the Home ilulo Bill, tho Chamber was crowded, but there -was no excitement. , . ; .".At tte instance of the Prime' Minister (Mr. Asquith), the Govorhment motion tp rescind Six Frederick Banbury's . amendment, to a financial , clause of the'Bill, which wm carried on a snap division last Monday,: was- discharged from the. Order Paper, and the olauso as amended on Monday was quietly negatived. Tho HousQ will tako tho Committee stage of a fresh financial resolution, to-morrow; the report' stage on Wednesday, and the resolution'; will go to the committee on Bills on Thursday. . ' . Mr. Asquitli said the Government had .immediately.responded to-the Speaker's ~ appeal; though it considered that the original''proposal, if -not within the letter ■ was .within . tho spirit of Parliamentary. procedure.lf .it now 'suggested , another •" that was owing to' its repugnance to recurrence of disorder, and . because ,it had been, impossible to ignore the'appeal by the chair;..'. Mr. Herbert Samuel, Postmaster'rGen- ' eral, has given'. notice of fresh financial resolutions,'which are more'explicit with '• regard to the services for which the money. is. required: than .was the case with the previous resolutions.