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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1804, 17 July 1913, Page 7

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HOME RULE BILL REJECTED BY THE LORDS. MAJORITY AGAINST: 238. REFORM OF UPPER HOUSE. Br TelsgraDh—Press AiMolp.tlon-Oonrrlßlit London, July 15. The House of Lords rejected tho Home Bui© Bill by 302 vote 9 to CI. Lord Morley said tho Government had been asked what it would do in. the event of violent disorder in Ulster, but he declined to say what it would do in a purely hypothetical contingency. (Rec. July IG, 10.40 p.m.) London, July 18. In concluding his speech, Lord Morley was repeatedly pressed by the Opposition to say whether the troops would bo ordered to firo on tho Loyalists. Ho refused to answer, but remarked that he felt con ■ fident that in a difficult or dangerous crisis the authorities would do all that their public duty imposed upon them in regard to tho maintenance of order. Ho contended that a referendum or a dissolution beforo a Bill was passed would be a far greater blow to Parliament's authority than anything in tho Parliament Act. He felt sure that when the Irish Party had a. Parliament of its own its members would show the same statesmanlike spirit that had been shown hitherto, and make it a success. Lord Curzon said that the Opposition wanted an election because they desired to avert civil war. ' Lord Loreturn made a fresh appeal for a comprehensive settlement by consent, consultation, and goodwill. If the effort failed, then it would bo time for a general election. Lord Londonderry emphasised the -unanimity and determination of tho Irish protestants against Home Rule. Lord Linlithgow, in his maiden speech, said that tho Bill was calculated to infuriato beyond measure the people of Ulster, and that without assuaging a single existing difficulty. < The archbishops and six bishops, who were present voted with tho majority. The Bishops Of Oxford and Hereford, who, in tho 1912 division, voted for t.ho Bill, were absent on this occasion. REFORMING THE LORDS. London, July 15. Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, replying to 3fr. John (Liberal) in the Houso of Commons, said that tho Government would next session submit proposals for reform of the House of Lords.

FACTION PEELING. London, July 15. • Excursionists to Castle Dawson, Londonderry, attacked the Hibernian Hall, and destroyed drums and banners. > They also wreoked twenty-two dwellings of Catholics. Revolvers were fired harmlessly. At its previous rejection by the House of Lords, the voting was 326 votes to 69— a majority of 257. Mr. Asquith's Home Rule Bill was carried through its second reading (following its initial introduction) on Miy 9, 1912., Under the provisions of the Parliament Act, two years must elap-jo between the date of tho second reading and the final passage of the Bill for the third time by tho House of Commons, after which, even if rejected a third time by the House of Lords, it automatically becomes law. The Bill, which, if passed tho third time by tho Commons, becomes law, must bo the same Bill as that which the Commons previously passed. As the duration of tho British Parliaments is reduced by the Parliament Act from spven yeaTS to five, and tho present Parliament was elected in December, 1910, the Homio Rule Bill would have to pass tlie House of Commons for tho third timo at latest in December, 1915, and at £h» earliest in May, 1914, i.e., two years from tho date of the second reading.