IRISH SENATE
BILL TO REDUCE POWER. GOVERNMENT BILL DEFEATED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DUBLIN, July 12. The Free State Senate by 30 votes to 7, defeated the Government’s bill altering the Free State constitution by reducing the’ Senate’s powers. One proposal in the bill was to reduce the Senate’s right to hold up a bill passed by the Dail, from eighteen months to three months.
Instead ot passing the bill, the Senate carried a (motion e<ppointiug a committee of five senators to meet five members of the Dail to consider the Senate’s present constitution. Senator Coimihan declared that the Senate was tho only safeguard between the people and a single Chamber. He said the Bill was merely tho forerunner of further lc?islatk)i intended to wipe cut the Senate and create a dictatorship.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1933, Page 5
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