HOME RULE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 671, 23 May 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

DISORDER IN THE HOUSE.

COMPELLED TO ADJOURN,

By Telegraph.—Press Association. —CopyTJgiw London, Thursday.

In the House of Commons to-day, when tha motion for the third reading of tha Home Rule Bill was reached, Lord Robert Cecil moved the adjournment of the House on the ground that nottting waa known of the Government's proposals.

Mr Asquith replied that the Government desired to secure general acquiescence to. the bill, establishing self-government ar.d executive for three-parts of Ire'and.

Tho new proposal would deal with a limited and give the people at a poll a chance of saying whether they were prepared to enter a new system of government.

He .waa ready to sympathetically consider suggestions, but in the first instance must have the firm judgment of the House ou the main proposals, after the House of Lords had discussed them, and submitted to the House of Commons their last word. Mr Bonar Law said that the whole proceedings were farcical. It was useless to participate in tha debate.

The motion for the adjournment was defeated, the voting being: Against the adjournment 286, for 176, Government majority 110. On Mr J. Campbell continuing the debate, the Unionists shouted,, "Adjourn, adjourn."

The Speaker inquired whether Mr Bonar Law assented to the disorder. Mr Bonar Law replied that he did not presmue to criticise what the Speaker considered hia duty, but his own duty was not to answer such a question.

The Opposition cheered frantically, and the Speaker, during a lull in the disorder, expressed disappointment at Mr Bonar Law's failure to assist him to obtain order. He suspended the sitting until tomorrow.

HOPES OF PEACE VAIN

The Times, in a leader, says that if Mr Asquith'a proposals in Ulster are not greatly amplified, hopes of peace now widely cherished will assuredly prove vain.

That the time limit must disappear is a proposition no longer seriously disputed in any responsible quarter. CARSON'S ENGAGEMENT. Sir Edward Carson's approaching marriage to the niece of Mr Morton Frewin, a former O'Brienits member for Cork and a Home Ruler, has upset hia Ulster colleguea and supporters, as they cannot reconcile threats of war with marriage bells.