HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND
BILL PASSES SECOND READING London, May 31.
The House of Commons, by 20! votes to 159, read a second time the Scottish Liberals' Home Rule Bill. Mr McKinnon Wood (Secretary for Scotland) expressed the Government's ipproval of the principle, but stated t was not committed to details. Mr Balfour made a vehement protest against the Bill, which ho declared preluded the greatest injuries to Scotland and was a legislative absurdity. It was, he said, impossible to make a federal system from four •M-ovinces whereof England was one. it was so lop-sided and top-heavy :hat it would be impossible to maintain its equilibrum for any. length of hime.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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111HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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