The Lords Debate.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 72, 16 July 1914, Page 5

The Lords Debate.

HOME RULE FOB IRELAND.

AMMUNITION SEIZED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press •Association.] (Received 9.0 a.in.) London, July 15. One hundred and fifty thousand rounds of ammunition, which was consigned to Belfast, were seized at Stockton-on-Tees.

SUGGESTED COMMISSION. London, July 15. Lord Crewe, reviewing the amendments to the Home Rule Bill, said that patience and forbearance on all parties was necessary. Both sides desired an announcement, though it lie one which nobody believed would represent the permanent relations between the two parties in Ireland. Lord Lansdowne declared that nothing less than the official amendments would suffice to avert danger. He complained that the Government had not uttered a word of suggestion that exhibited any importance. They had shown themselves more hopeless, helpless and aimless than any previous Government in time of a crisis. Lord Morley said that the amendments had only embittered relations and made collision more inevitable. If this were the last word of the majority of the Lords, it would have been far bettor and more straightforward if they had refused a second reading. Lord Dun raven’s amendment was carried, enabling the King, by Order-in-Council, to postpone Home Rule until a Commission has reported on the constitutional relations of Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.

Lord Beauchamp opposed the amendment, and said that if there were a general desire among all parties for a conference with, a view of conciliation, the Government would facilitate summoning it. Lord Lansdowne welcomed the offer.

The Cabinet to-morrow considers the amendments. The suggested conference was received with favor by the Ministerialists, hut they emphasise that it must not delay placing Home Hide on the Statute Book. Sir Edward Carson, in response to an urgent telegram, has hastened to London, Sir A. Birrell has gone to Dublin. The Daily Chronicle says the Government must refuse to exclude any county which had not voted to be excluded. It would he absurd to take Ulster as a voting area. It had no more reality than Wessex or Mer-

AMENDING BILL FOR MONDAY. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Loudon, July 15. Mr Asquith announced that he proposed to put down the Amending Bill provisionally for Monday. AMAZING PRESS STATEMENT. “GOVERNMENT INTEND TO ABANDON THE AMENDING BILL. (Received 11.13 a.m.) London, July 15. The Pall Mall Gazette is responsible for the amazing statement that the Government intends to abandon the Amending Bill, to withdraw the troops from Ulster and to allow the provisional government to keep order and collect taxes and remit them to Whitehall, whence they will be disbursed proportionally to Ulster and Dublin.