HOME RULE BILL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10612, 19 April 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE BILL

CABLE NEWS

(United Fret* Association — By TB\Afr trie Tdeoraph—Copyright.)

SOME OF ITS PROVISIONS

A MOTION FOR REJECTION.

(Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.)

LONDON, April 18,

The Home Rule Bill contains fortyeaght douses. The Bill, which has I no (preamfble, provides that one-fourth of tibe Senators shall retire every I second jeair. r lhe Senate is debarred 'from amending or "rejecting . Money j Balls. Mfristens a.re empowered to t'speak in either Hous* hut must vote lonly in .that House U) which they belong. Tihe Ball provides, ad hoc, for Irish representation in the Imperial Parliament; when the <tdme is Opportune for the revision of the financial provisions; and making representation in' (the Commons equivalent to Britain's on a population basis. j j- Tlh"e second reading of tihe Bill will , probably bo taken prior to the Whit- j 1 6'Untide recess. j i Sir J. B. JLonsdfeule, Unionist mem-* jber for Mid-Armagh, has given notice to move in diavour of the. rejection ' of. the'Bill. I | A manifesto, signed by Messrs W.J O'Brien and Tdiii Heialy, states that they iwi'll not 'hesitate to summon: a conference of the "AH for Ireland League" to discuss tfo'e Bill, in the event of an emergency requiring act- '■ ion. MeamvUxile the view is .that it. is an impossibility to pass any Home ! Rule Bill. Tihe manifesto depreciates siectionial demonstrations for or ■against tihe Bill.

FINANCIAL PROPOSALS.

-LEGISLATORS' TERMS OF OFFICE. (Received April 18, 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, April 17. , The. Times .jiayis tihiat a system of embryo federal finance is being ap-, plied to Ireland, which meanWhile does not contribute one penny for Imperial purposes, unftl some uhspeci-, fied date, though receiving an annual. grant, of £2,000,000, which is only, defensible while.sihe.is part of the Un- I dted Kingdom. | . Ithe tex" of the Bill has beeivi&su-. ed. -. Tfhe Senators -term, of office is for eight years, and members,, of the, Oc/mmionis for fire years. Parliament J is siimmlonled for September, 1913, at j which?' date the Irish members at Weitoiintetie.r will resign. ; ,