AMENDING BILL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2187, 27 June 1914, Page 5

AMENDING BILL

RUMOURS OF AH EABLT ELECTION ESTERMEN ANGRY & DEFIANT THE FEELING IN IRELAND , By Telegraph—Press AeSOfetotion—Capyrlfitt j "Times" and Sydney "Ssrn" Sci"Tlc«e, j . (Bee. June 26, SM p.m.) Loncfonj Jiwfe 26. .Feeling in Ireland regairdisg tho fj.r.ospoets of tho Home Rule Artteoding jiill is frankly pessimistic, 'fltti Nationftlists disliko tho apologetic fajae adopted by the Maxquis of preivfe (Sec!xif4.r,v of. State for India) in bis spuecli on* tlio first reading in tho House < i Lords, while the Ulstermen are angry aii:d de.' fiant. The increasing difficulties oi te Priao Minister (Mr. Asquith) support thp ril.mours of' an early efcctioii. '■ Tiie" appeal of JUr. Jelni Hcdnidnd (.Nationalist Leader) to tho IrtSlvAßieri- I cans, for funds to support tlio Katfoii- j alist Volunteer mpvciiteilt, passed' almost unnoticed in the t?aited States Press, but tho Jrish Coteiiiittee in. New ■ York cabled £1000, «jjd premised to supplj' all tho money required. ' WHY PREVIOUS OVERTURES HAP BEEN FliflLE. Government with hands Tim; (Rec. Juno 26, 9,lft p.m.) Lonclon, Jaijfi S6. ■ Sir Edward Carson,- writing in the- ■ magazine "Our Flag/' ssH lie- wishect he could support. the yjoiv that tho ; Home Itulo Amending Bift showed a-' real desiro on the part" of tlio Goreraroent to avert disaster. On the contrary, it demonstrated that ii& pitegress had been mado since Miiioll, it sv«vn)d 'bo ludicrous to provide- that Ulster inust accept any administratjoii -vViiMi tho Lord-Lieiitnnant (who tcq:hU bo subject ■ t<! the advice of his Pulrfm. Miiiietijrs) desires to set up. the whole ilAig was a policy of drift, ajld it loe'ificl. as if thero would be no effoft of statesmanship to solve tho preblem. Sir Edward Carson appoafe tt> sympathisers to give Ulster sfctlve and dfttermined support in fto Stru^glp. ' Viscount Milner, farmfei-iy Higll Co.*missioner for South Africa, Jn a spe.och at.tho Constitutional OkVii,. sftid ttat whether tho present attoiftirt to avert disastor succeeded or foi.lpfl depended upon whether or not tho G4v=crHH)oiit.'■ emancipated itsolf at the efeyoMli bour from tho vassalage of tho Satioj«i : ltst Party. Previous overfiirss had , teea, futile, becauso tho Gofjerninoni barj (;iitered into them with their liMuk tied. He was prepared t<3 approach tlieAmending Bill..with a. dcMfe tti tiitjo over tho interval' of gfaaitosjs danger. They had no right to tjicoiv. away tho ltvst poor chance of saving tlio ceuatry from a great calamity, - ARMS PROC^fiSViATIQNi APPLIES TO wloS Q? IRIILANi), Loncfstij J'tnie 25. Mr. Hoyd Gcorgo (ChaK*&l.lftt' of the Exchequer), replying in tho H«.iJso of Commons on behalf of the. prime Mitt' ister, said tho Arms proela.mMoa ap» plied to the. , wholo of IMnML Steps,. which it was hoped wyuld b$ «(feet;ivc. had been taken for iljff eiiforfiWflSis't '■of the proclamation. It was jto:fc'ptcijMi-sesi to mako reprosentatlons jxi :, W*s}#g;tan. ; roeardinc shipments of flftes. ffftra'tliij United States to IretoA ' . . . ADDRESS TO Tftfi KIHG. BY FEDKRAITgEKAtR. MfllbpUrfiei Jimo 26. Tho Federal Senate, by gp votes to S, and in spite of. a sttijng protosl % the Government repr.&seinatU'e: oil Sid- inexpediency of such nct.ie'Pj adoptgd an. ad-ch-ess to the King m favour of Homct Rule for Ireland. ■• Mr. Cook (Prime Minister) declined to submit a similar jKidjess. t<l tlio. House of Representatives. AN ALU-PARTY^GNVEWtOM* TO ESCAPE FROSI A DESPffIRATB CALAMITY. (Ree. June 26, 1:0.6 p.m.) LpnU&rij 3we> 26, Mr. William O'Briefc (Indepemfit&Wb Nationalist) in a letter te iho aewspapers, says that a co'nfergnfta ftt-this stage' would bo a.desperate- remedy, but it is the only escape fiiCflii a de:siJer,ate calamity. Let tho Holiso of Lotds P*°* poso an all-party conWitjroti: ss Be-rt, Grey had suggested iinfl a|journ tihe Home Rule and the aittendiilg: Bill for three months, pending tta OoiU'oution's report. But the CotivftilMon sihQuM proceed' exclusively as aii Irish ceitference. AMENDMENTS dfiftFtEO. BY- UNIONIST LEADERS. ". (Rec. June 26, 104® pyn.3 V*tidQ.n,' Juno Sβ. Tlie Unionist leaders have dra.ftftd amendments to tho Amending B'iit. It is understood they afe t<j abolish tlio time liiiitt and ex.toM the projected area of cxetesioi). Lord Willoughby Bq Broke h.is notice of motion to- teject ffiiA JisH Ijlit tho motion has not.feootad tlie offioial sanction of the Unioniisis,