TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 October 1912, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

fllY KLKL'IIiIC TICLKIiHAi;.II--COrYRIGnXJ [ricit riIKSS ASSOCIATION.'! HChMfi PULE J)EHATK. SIH KIVWAIM) CARSON'S RHETORIC. LONDON. (Vtolior 21. A! r .lames Hope's amendment to Clau.se IV to bring the Irisli executive under the control of the Imperial Parliament was negatived by 280 votes to 1!)0. The Right, HonA. Hirrell (Irish Chief Secretary) said that if the Irish Parliament was intended to have a live iorce .and respoii>ihiluy it must have oxeeutne control. T':- Rt. Hon. A. .1. ISall'oitr. ridiCiiliiiir the clause, said that lie toresaw chaos if the executive resigned, owing to the Lord-Lieutenant exercising; the veto. Sir Edward Carson. K.C.. >Jiid the Government was not prepared to give the lrisli full rights of soltgovernment because it mistrusted them, and because Ireland refused to assume full financial obligations upon which the rights of every selfgoverning colony were based. Greatly «is he loathed the Bill ' r Ireland must have Home Pule then he would much rather it work out its own destiny iu its own way than by this hybrid monster which <1 id not embodv any constifut:on. Sir Pufus Isaacs, K. C. (Radical' complained that the Unionists were insisting on -nfc/'ua rds. and i lie n refusing them. He added that the Government was unable to tr -ni Ireland like a dominion because the relations were different.