HOME RULE BILL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 144, 13 March 1920, Page 7

HOME RULE BILL

MOMENTOUS GATHERING Af ULSTER

PREFERENCE

FOR UNION

FREEDOM FROM DUBLIN PARLIAMENT

(By Telcsraph-PrcßE AsEOciatiou--Copyrisrht

London, March 11. Yesterday's meeting of the UV.or Unionist Council is jfenorally rej'irticd m the most'iribmentbu's out held.'' Tlie speeches, wore, marked jby intense-serious-ness. -An ejirnfst. and. .strong contingent of delegates'frohi't'av'an, .Donegal, / liiii! Mionaghan put •upm-' strenuous ttgh'i f»r ■inclusion in the northern urea.

The "Daily Telegraph" toys: '"i'l.e three counties pleaded that the Ulster covenant should not he departed from; but the inexorable facts of ihe siumti. :i prevailed, and they 'were defeated Kr n large majority. It was with vorrowfnl feelings that the majority voted tho •_>ritpost':counties out'-.oi-'the Uistur J'virl.ifw •me.nfei buf Jiad to prevail: over, heart. It''.lira's felt that if llwy \v*r» included, the 'Unionist majority woulil ho iso small' that Parliamentary I'usiiv«a4 i would be impossible. ; Tlie : motion oil''behalf of • the ' tlirce : counties-, sflid.r'"The-, coimcili abiding- by' ; the _ Covenant, refuses nnv form of GoverniriouE not including tlie 'wliolu pruvince, and demands that the Parliamentary.. leaders, shall see that the ne\v Bill is alici'ed accordingly." When this was defeated,'the meeting carried unanimously a motion.. reaffirming, its preference for 'Union to Home' liiile, 'and refusing to accept rSspwisiljility for the new lliil; hut that the new Bil! was preferable to :the").9l4 Aclya-sintple repetition of.whit'h .feems unprocurable. Tho Ulslci" representative flic-rcfire should not ncceptthe- responsibility .ofc-.defoaMng tho ii»»' Bill,, but should press for amendments protecting tho interests of Unionists <>«t----;s:'<le the six counties.

The '.Daily Telegraph" fays the up*fcrt of thfe whol6 iling is- that Uls'tur will; not'oppose the Bill,-but the.exelni-ltii-countics arc solid. .. . . . The "Mowing Post" stalc-s Hint the outstimdirjs' feature ot the meeting was ■ the frequent manifestation of llio fact that the Loyalists, would give anything to remain "as tliny ore; and arc out.-.of. the -United.-Kingdom- against their" will,-.-which- is a deplorable return for ■what Ulster did in. to win the war. The Ulster Unionist. liusinej6-lluii's Council, it. says, also reaffirmed jirtfefenco for Union, but authorised Sir K<l- . ward.Uarsoji to proceed as ho co:i6iderod best, hfCauSß the rejection-of. tlio new Bill would' involve a grayo ricik of iishiug nn All-Ireland Parliament. . Ou..th.G..othe.':.hand, the Irish .Unionist. Alliance, met in Dublin and resolved tlmi .while recognising Ulster's claim for fctoraie treatment, tfeaynow Bill must I*. opposed by 111' their .portor. j' ■ Sir Edward Careon, in a sinecc at a public meeting in Belfast, after tlio-tci'-initiation of the Council, said lh.it if : lh»y had their way there would be no tani.pering ;trith 't-hsninion. They warned ■ the Government that wlntever .the.,.out-. come of the tampering was, they liotiW 1 accept no responsibility, nnd.U disaster, resulted, the whole responsibility would be on-the Gflverniuenr. .At i.lu; same time, he refused to ask his tbilo/vej's to run their hea'iis-'ng'ainst a ■•v.-all. They would not piirticipato in discussions, bothe committee stage,. when . thcy ; . i would try to'amend the Bill in U|C interests'of'Ulster. He had set out to free Ulster from the Dublin -Parliament.--If the Bill' was pnsse'd.' the.y "would hove ivon. He \v6ul;l hot have saved the 'whole of.,lceland,'VJulb lio would\ have; done' what lie. had covenanted for. It was all very well to say: "Why not fight as before?" But there was nothing mora to fight tor if Ulster was freed from the Dublin Parliament. It was no übp pretending they could, govern Cavaiu Dwiftgal, and MonagliJvn' ■ Tliev had'a',.fltronffi Ulster in tho which "wonldbe ft better support for the other lhre«,. than if they had a tottering Ulster comprising the whole ninp., -He -.deaiicd; the Covenant was broken. The Council s decision was saiie, wise, and statesman-; like. It was not due to funk, biit to sheer, logio and reason.—Aus.-N.Z. Gablo Assn,

-•i' London,, March 10.-}' The Ulster Unionist" Council's'dec.'flnn to accept tho six-county proposal liasj caused much excitement, The "Freeman's Journal" says that large forces of troops are entrained for ,i!ie south-west.—"The Times."

OPPOSITION; TO- PARTITION. ; • March 9. j Sir Maurice Soekrell, who is n insri}ber of. the' House ot" ; Com:no»s. amr'Uiff only Unionist outside TJlslor ami a popu-. lar" business magnate .in Dublin, hns given notice -of a lpotion .to ioiret this Home flvle Bill (in tlie ground that partitions fif Ireland' Tnto faolitas will 'in-' validate, the .co-operation of tlio best we-, ments an<l-divorce the 111 tnn South'and North, while the Cathol5c«.jviU. suffer similarly.—Un-'ted Serrice.' attackslnlolice

JURIES REFUSE VERDICTS OK ' MURDER, '

'"■'•' London, March 11 The juries refused a verdict of m'Ji4er. at the inquests on Constable Ryan M»1 another slain consta'ble, and returned opeiii verdicts'. .'/.Sergeant -I'lynn was attacked al'Macroom a'ti<l loft on the ri»<lway in a.critical/tate. A gang assailed two constables in. Tippevary, and left one naked, and cropped tho hair of the other. Inspector' M'floiiagh l was-shot dangerously at. Cork, and Constable Murnhy was', seriously. •■■wounded in Limerick.^ Aus.-N-.Zc Cable: Assn.'