An Amended Bill.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 19, 14 May 1914, Page 5

An Amended Bill.

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. DEBATE IN THE COMMONS. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, May 13. Mr Asquith said the Opposition’s attitude was ono of unwavering hostility, and if there was to be someidling in the nature of an agreed settlement, this must be accomplished through an amending Bill. He asned for the third reading of the Home .Rule Bill before Whitsuntide, whereafter the Government would introduce an amending Bill, which would be introduced either in the Lords or the Commons, he was undecided which.

The announcement manifestly surprised Mr Redmond. Mr Asquith, proceeding, said that the suggestions put down for disestablishment would entirely reconstruct the Bill, and there was not one which the Government could accept, so why waste time in academic discussion? They could insert amendments. The Government would allow full discussion on the return of the Bill to the House of Commons. Mr Bonar Law said that before the third reading of the Home Hule Bill, the House should know the Government’s proposed amendments. The only hope of peace lay in the Government’s influence with the Nationalists. The latter would he less willing to make concessions after the third reading. Mr Balfour said that if the Government was submitting an amending Bill it implied that the other Bill was defective.

Mr Lloyd George: If every offei put forward by the Government were so treated, that was the way to promote civil war. Uproar ensued for two minutes, with cries of “Shame,” and “You are a disgrace to the country.” . Mr Balfour said the abandonment of the suggestion stage was a reversal of tho policy that Mr Asquith had recommended when he inti-ooncecr the Parliament Act. The Government now admitted, after the Bill had run the gauntlet for three years, that they were unable to place it on the Statute Book. They could amend it, but no amendment which left in tho Bill provision for a Dublin Executive could receive the Opposition’s support. He begged the Government to defer the third reading until the House saw the terms of the Amending Bill. The Premier’s motion was carried by 276 votes to 194. THE FANNY AT HAMBURG. THE CREW RETICENT. (Received 8.0 a.in.) Hamburg, May 12. The Ulster gun-runner, the Fanny, has arrived, flying no flag. Her name had been freshly painted in schoolhoy handwriting. The captain is not visible, and the crew decline all information.

PROTESTANT SYMPATHY FROM SYDNEY. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, May 14. The Presbyterian Assembly passed a resolution sympathising with the Protestants of Ireland in their endeavour to conserve their civil and ecclesiastical liberties and to maintain the unity of the Empire.