AMNESTY TO DYNAMITERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 194, 15 February 1895, Page 3

AMNESTY TO DYNAMITERS.

(FEE PEKBS ASSOCIATIONS) London, February 13 Replying to the amendment proposed by Mr J. J. Clancy, member for Dublin, in faTor of an amnesty being granted to dynamiters, Mr Asqtith said he thought j the time had not yet come for the exercise of clemency towards this class of prisoners, but he would consult the judges before whom they had been tried. In the course of his reply in the House of Commons to questions concerning the Payment of Members Bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequor, Sir W. V. Harcourt, said the Bill would not include provision for defraying the election expenses of members. The Government had not abandoned the Bill, but it was a question of time and money. Mr William Redmond asked whether, if the Australian colonies determined on a Federation Constitution, the Government would introduce the necessary Enabling Bill. — Mr Buxton, Parliamentary Secretary for the Colonies, said that in the event of the colonies takiug such a step he would be favourably inclined to assist them in the direction indicated. The Mayor of Dublin, on behalf of the Municipal Corporation, appeared before the bar of the House of Commons in support of the petition for an amnesty to political prisoners. He told the House that to grant the amnesty would remove a just cause of discontent in Ireland.