THE EDUCATION BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81901, 13 December 1906, Page 3

THE EDUCATION BILL.

- m GOVERNMENT REJECTION OF LORD'S AMENDMENTS. NEWSPAPER COMMENT. London, December 11. Many comments have Wen made on the Government seeking to throw the onus of the rejection of the Education Bill on the House of Lords. The Standard says the Government has decided to kill 'the Bill. The Morning Post declare!, the last hope ol a settlement is flickering in the 'socket The Times says tho Government pawed sentence on the BUI, and asked the Lords to start again to negotiate with a hostile House of Commons. If the Government really want3d a settlement, it would have offered eonces ■ions, with a plain unmiatakeable guarantee. The Daily News contends that if the BUI is lost the Nonconformists' only hope in matters of education is the (rank adoption of the secular solution. THE GOVEBNMEiST PEOPOSALS 10 BEFEB WHOLE BACK TO LORDS. IHTEBIM MOTION CABBIED. Becerred 12, 9.30 p.m. Lobdor, December 12. In the House of Commons, on the Education Bill, Sir H. CampbellBannerman adopted a conciliatory tone and argued that the discussion of the individual amendments, instead of the cumulative effect of the amendments at a whole, was calculated to confuse, especially if the House was not aware what particular concession would satisfy the majority of the Lords. He firmly believed it possible, even probable, that counsels of moderation and peace would prevail. Mr Balfour denounced the present gagging expedient, which was intended to enable the Government to escape the results of the embarrasuig failure of their negotiations with the Irish Catholics and English Conformists, in their hopeless search for a compromise. The resolution to deal with the amendments as a whole was carried by 317 to 89. The House then proceeded to discuss the motion to disagree with the Lords' ann , n Hin * ntl '