VOTE OF CENSURI

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2179, 18 June 1914, Page 5

VOTE OF CENSURI

HOME RULE DEBATE I THE HOUSE OF LORDS

DEMAND FOR AMENDING ; BILLMOTION IN THE COMMONS By Tcfcsrflpli-l'tws AssQciation-Copyrlßht' London., June 16, Th<j Marquis of Lansdowiie (Leader of tins Opposition in the Hoas« of Lords) jjioved a vote of censure on the <iov«i-nincat for. delaying the bringing dxswn of tlii> Amending Home Bute Bill. He said that t\u> oxisteaeo of tie Ulster and Nationalist velnntocrs was proof of iho Gi.ivwmnent's misitoana-ftoment and inctmipctciiw. Tito Government \wa doing nothing to avert a dire calamity. The Amending Hill ought to have been produced in the. Houss <*f Commons long ago. Secret smwersntians were not likely to tcmAi favourably. The Marquis of Ciwe {Secrctatv of State far India) said that if Lord Lansdowno would uot have private conversations, tiicw they ttiusi discuss mattes in Parliament. So agreed tliat .if the House of.Lords amended this Amending Ijill it would not ijiean tliat they concurred in the principle of Home" Rule. If ti» wily vowl to a settlement was ti;e Uxchisioil pi Ulster, it would be wise in proceed along thai, road. There would bo no difficulty in the way of defwring the second teailiiig stage' of . the Home Rule Bill if Lord foiusd'ijwfle so desired. (Roe. Jmio 18, 0.30 a.m.) London, June 17. During ttio debate; m \nc iimm of Lords, Lord Cl-ovfts claimed that the tiflVOMimoiit hiiti not Jiceii id.ls dui'iiiss the wicess. Mr, j\aquitk had been in cani.inuniciitiou with 6it Edward Car* son.