BRITISH POLITICS
♦ -" -^ ■ '• (By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)" «• (Red i 0.45 p.m) . ..LCTNnON, April 21. ivlr Cane's.. amendment was defeated oy 222 to ,136, jnaking- clause 2 only, operative oafter dissolution, ensuring that Home- Rule disestablishment, and licensing: shall first, toe approved :.by .electors..: -. -, ;-... .'.-.■,■. . 1 here, was . another. . animated de? b'ateVoni a, proposal., thati" the clause be inoperative in the case of bSls extending over , the duration -. of Parliament. .The proposal, was rejected by 230 to 150. .>'■-. ■! /:; „... Mr Asquith. said there were -many -._ amendments on. the order paper, but to save trouble, he wished to" make it clear that the Government would not accept - any. - It was impossible to discriminate between: constitutional and other changes' and "the g'oy: ernments's want of ' machinery which among Other '.' -things was giving . . effect' to , Home Rule tor Ireland" It •'* was ridiculous to expect the Government to impose a self-denying- ordinance. " _;.*" ; Mr Balf our argued that ( any;, sec- . ond cfrarnoer. would then he useless. It was monstrous that the Commons . should, make themselves omnipptOTJ:. •
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Grey River Argus, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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