THE HOME RULE FIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1984, 14 February 1914, Page 5

THE HOME RULE FIGHT.

—.——— • HOUSE OF LORDS MOTION. AGAINST PROCEEDING WITH THE BILL. CARRIED BY A BIG MAJORITY. By Associn.tl«n->Capyrlel!i Lontlorl, February 12. Lord Robert Cecil (Unionist), speaking in tho House of Commons, argued that it would bo impossible when selfgovernment had onc.o been given South Africa or Ireland- to interfere therewith, or reverse the decisions of its Parliament. London, February 12, . In the House of Lords, Lord Middleton's motion to tlio effect that it would bo disastrous to proceed with Homo Rule was carried by 213 votes to 55. PRESS OPINIONS. ON THE EXCLUSION OF ULSTER. London, February 12. The "Daily Chronicle" (Liberal) states that there is a widespread impression among Liberal M.P.'s that thero has been far too much Ministerial talk about Ulster's' exclusion. There is keen disappointment that no word of protest was mado against tit® Opposition's incendiary speeches. There can bo no question, adds the paper, that the exclusion of Ulster would amount to a withdrawing of the Bill. If tho Government did so it would betray hot only tho Liberal Party, but the sovereignty of Parliament. Tlio "Westminster Gazette" .(Independent) says Sir Edward Carson's speech was niore generous jii tone. "Tho implication. wa3 that they wero all Irishmen, and Mr. Redmond's Response reminds us that final peaco is to be made between Irishmen." Tho "Gazette" suggests that the Government should mako special conditions for Ulster, a provisional arrange-, ment until Homo Rule* all round lias been completed. This must logically follow tho Government's and the Unionists' declarations, "Times"—Sydney. "Sun." Special Cables. The "Times," in a leader, says:— "Mr. Asquith failed to assign convincing roasons for incurring tho dangers of 1 delay." MB. W. H. HEDMONO AT AUCKLAND. HOPEFUL OF SETTLEMENT. Auckland, February 1& Mr. TV. H, Redmond, M.P.. brother . of tho Irish Nationalist Leader,. and Mrs. Redmond, arrived by the M?trania from Sydney, on route to .London, via Vancouver. Tlioy were* weleonved on landing by a lai'go gathering of admirers, and accorded an enthusiastic greeting. On arrival at tho Albert Hotel the distinguished .visitors' health was drunk. Mr. Redmond, in upturning thanks, said that, apart attdgethor from tlio Homo Rule issue, Ulstermon as a body, Protestant . and Catholic, were solid in their ideal of national self-government, and nothing was more certain than that it would bo settled on a satisfactory basis.