IRISH GOVERNMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1930, Page 5

IRISH GOVERNMENT

DEFEATED IN DIVISION. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] LONDON, March 28. The Free State Government was defeated by 66 votes to 64 on the second reading of a private member’s Old Age Pensions Bill, which the Republicans, introduced. The Cabinet are now discussing their resignation. DE, VALERA’S TURN. LONDON, 51 ai;cli 23a In the Free State Parliamentary i” vision, twenty deputies were absent when the critical vote was taken. ' The Cabinet arc still sitting in order to decide whether to resign. If President Cosgrave should resign he will probably be succeeded l>y Mr Eamonn De Valera, who now is en route to Dublin from the United States. DE VALERA INTERVIEWED. (Received tin’s day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 28. De Valera, interviewed at Chicago to-day, said he would answer the call to the Presidency of the Free State if the Dail Eireann summoned him, adding: “If I were selected by the Dail | I would form a Fianna Fail Government It is a situation offering many possibilities and interesting historical events. It marks the resignation of a party, that so far lias been working under the treaty. Our party has been endeavouring for some time, to obtain a majority in the Dail to carry out its declared politics,” , FREE STATE. GOVERNMENT RESIGNS. (Received this dav at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 28. The Irish Free State Government has resigned-