HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND.
BILL PASSES .SECOND BEADING. OPPOSITION'S STRONG PROTEST. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received '!, $$ ;p:m. !London, May 31. The House of Commons, 'by -Wi votes to 159, read a second time the Scottish Liberals' Home Rufe Bill.
Mr. MacKinnon Wood (Secretary for Scotland) expressed the Government's approval of the principle, 'but Stated it was not committed to details.
Mr. Balfour made a vehement protest against the Bill, which "be declared preluded the greatest injuries to Scotland and was a legislative absurdity. It was, he said, impossible to make a federal system from four provinces whereof England was one. It was so lop-sided and top-heavy that it would be impossible to maintain its equilibrium for any length of time.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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119HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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