HOME RULE QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE QUESTION

THE AMENDING BILL TEXT JEALOUSLY GUARDED By Telegraph—Press Association—Cop5 T rit:lit London, Juno 19. Tlie nctu.il tost of the Amending Homo Rule Rill is jealously guarded although the main provisions aro generally known. The object of tho National Volunteers is to prevent the exclusion of Ulster. This moans that while Mr. John Redmond (the.. Nationalist Leader) cannot formally recede'from the bargain embodied in Mr. Asquith's offer of March. 9,' he is committed to preventing the offer being extended. It is understood that tho Government hope to evade the .real issue by making the. exclusion definite for six years, and slurring over their view of what is likely to happen when the period of graco has expired. *

"SHEER HUMBUG." MR. LLOYD GEORGE EMPHATIC. " » (Rec. June 22, 1.10 a.m.) London, Juno 21. Mr. Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequer), in a speech at Denmark Hill, said the Government proposed that every county in .Ulster Should have the option of voting out Home Rule until two general elections had passed. Tho talk about driving Ulster 'out/ of the Union wqs sheer humbug v Ulster still retained *lier representation in tho House of Commons, with a vrtice in Imperial affairs, and possessed a greater voice than the Overseas Dominions. Tho Carsons, Craigs, and Londoudorrys the eighteenth century had forced Irish Homo Rule upon England.

THE TIME LIMIT. , WILL IT BE ABANDONED?. (Rec. Juno 22, 1.10 a.m.) London, Juno 21. The "Observer" says that while the Amending Bill may represent tile concessions to which Mr. Redinoiul has agreed, it is understood that it does not necessarily represent Mr. Asquitb's last word. The "Observer" Relieves that the time limit will be abandoned.