HOME RULE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 61, 17 July 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE

THE DE3ATE IN THE LORDS

THE APPEAL FOR SETTLEMENT

[By Electmc Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.)

London, July 16

The debate on the Home Rule Bill was continued in the House of Lords. Lord Curzon said that the Opposition wanted an election because it wanted to avert civil war.

Lord Morley was repeatedly pressed by the Opposition to say whether troops would be ordered to fire on loyalists, but refused to answer. He sa'id that he was confident that in a difficult or a dangerous crisis the authorities would do all that public duty imposed upon them for the maintenance of order. He contended that a referendum or a dissolution before a Bill was passed would be a greater blow to parliamentary authority thai: anything in the Parliament Act. He was sure that when the Irish Party had a Parliament of its own it would show the same statesmanlike spirit as it had shown hitherto and made it a success. Lord Loreburn appealed again for a comprehensive settlement by consent, consultation and goodwill. If the effort failed, then it would be time for a general election.

Lord Londonderry emphasised the unanimity and determination of the Irish Protestants against Home Rule. Lord Linlithgow in a maiden speech

.said the Bill was calculated to infuriate beyond measure the people of Ulster, without assuaging a single existing difficulty. The archbishops and six bishops present voted with the majority. Ths Bishops of Oxford and Hereford, who in 1912 voted for the Bill, were ab-

sent.