THE IRISH QUESTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 273, 15 May 1912, Page 5

THE IRISH QUESTION

; THE DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 14, 9.40 p.m. ! London, May 14. In the Honse of Commons the Disestablishment Bill was rejected on the second reading. The Opposition stated that there was hardly a Ministerialist who was not secretly ashamed of the proposals of the Bill. Such support as it had gained was due to an appeal to cupidity. Mr. Ellis Griffith, the member for Anglesey, said that the Welsh Liberals demanded that the Church should enjoy the same rights and liberties as others. Disestablishment would enable the CSiurch to regain control over its ritual. Mr. Keir Hardie, leader of the Labor Party, approved of the Bill because it would supply a precedent for the abolition of private ownership of land. The Times says that small public interest is shown in the Home Kule and Disestablishment debates. One of the immediate results is that Parliament will act on this koowledge and reject both measures. The fact that the real conflict will be deferred for two years deadens discussion.

THAT DEBATABLE SURPLUS. Received 14, 11.50 p.m. London, May 14. A meeting of Radical members of the House of Commons disapproved of the possible diversion of the surplus from the redemption of the national debt to the Navy, or otherwise. THE SENATORIAL CONSTITUTION. Received 15, 12.40 a.m. London, May 14. The Liberal Home Rule Committee has 'drafted an amendment giving the Irish Parliament more adequate powers to alter the Constitution. It proposes that after eight years the Irish Parliament Bhould be entitled to constitute a senate as it thinks fit.