HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

AMENDMENTS ON TUESDAY. fßv Electric Telegraph—Copyright; Times and Sydney Sun Services. L ndon, March 5. Mr A. Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland) introduced the Home Rule Bill amid Ministerial and Unionist cheers.

Mr Asquith (the Premier), informed Mr Bonar Law (Leader of the Opposition) that the amendments to the Dili would be ready for circulation by Tuesday.

Lord Dunravcn, in a letter to the Press, says that a fair chance of settlement is only obtainable by referring Mr Asquith’s proposal to a conference on the linos suggested In Lord Loreburn. Coercion was impossible, exclusion was unthinkable, and a general election would bo useless 'is a solution of'the problem. Lord Hugh Cecil, in a letter to the Press, says that the difficulty in the way of a conference is insuperable. He draws an anology between Mr Botha’s action in South Africa, and possible happenings in Ireland, as creating two centres of sovereignty. He says. “No body can be blind to the outrageous scandal caused by the infliction of perpetual exile by a retrospective enactment. True sovereignty lies with the- South African Parliament and Mr Botha, not with the British Crown. Such are the consequences of Homo Rule.”