THE VETO BILL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10223, 26 April 1911, Page 5

THE VETO BILL

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AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT.

AFFECTING HOME RULE

(Revived Last Night, 8.-50 o'clock.)

LONDON, April 24

In the Houso of Commons the c\bate on Clause 2 of the Veto Bill was continued.

Mr J. B. Lonsdale, Unionist merber for Armagh, moved an amendment to exclude Home Rule from the operation of the Bill.

The amendment was negatived !// 284 votes to 190.

[ Sir C. J. Cory, Liberal member kr Cornwall, voted against the Government, and Captain Waring for. Several Liberals abstained from voting. Mr Lonsdale, in moving the amendment, urged that not forty per cent of the Ministerialists had referred to Home Rule in the last elections. If Home Rule was passed over the heads of the House of Lords, the people of Ulster would not acknowledge the authority of the Parliament, nor would they pay taxes. Mr Ramsay Macdonald, Leader o? the Labour Party, ,declared that the great mass of the electors, when asked, had given the House of Commo-ir; more authority, namely, to put the House in a sovereign position to realise xlome Rule and other first cla s measures, which would follow incri,ta.bly. Hence the willingness of the Irish in America to unite with other sections in favour of the Taft-Grey treatv.

Tho Eight Hon. H. H. Asqinnh said that Clause 2 offered most serious obstacles, to ill-considered measures. Amy Home Rule Bill must bs discussed for three sessions, namely over iwo years. Anything passing that ordeal must represent the country's will and judgment-. He quoted his own, also tho Unionist declarations, to prove that it was made clear that the majority in favour of the present Bill would be used to carry Hoir.e Rule. . Mr Balfour declared that the Ministers, at the general election, had laic 7 the whole emphasis on the House of Lords issue, and had thrown Hoirc Rule into the background.

THE ISSUE DISGUISED

Received This Morning, 1.16 o'cloe 1 -..

LONDON, April 20. In the Veto debate, Mr BalLnr stated that Home Pule, tho grcaie:.'. of all issues, had been a::':' the power was- thus surreptitiously given to .override the peopled opinio:'; on the Home' Rule issup. •'-Ministers' did noir dare to submit Home Rule to the test of a general election.