DISESTABLISHMENT
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OPPOSITION ANGER ROUSED
CHARGE OF BRIBERY OF LAYMEN.
(Received April 27, 5.5 a.m.)
LONDON. April 28. The Welsh Disestablishment Bill was road a first time by 331 votes to 253. Mr George Harwood, Liberal M.P. for Bolton, (author of "Disestablishment, or the Defence of the Principle of a National Olrurch") voted with the Opposition. Sixty-eight Nationalists supported the Government. The Right iHon. Mr Lloyd George (Chancellor ,of tiho Exchequer) said the wrong Wales felt was in England im/pofi-jng its church as an exponent of the Welf-'li spiritual life. He or ©used tlie Opposition's anger by "stating that two-thirds of .tlie church's property at the Reformation went to laymen as a ibribe to them to sell .their faith. Those who were, enjoying the endowments to-day had cabled him a thief became, he had tried to take a halfpenny in the pound. . Lord Robert Cecil (Unionist) interjected: This is ix'l Limehoutse. Mr Lloyd George: I thought I should get homo! , Lord HiiHi Cecil (Unionist member for Oxford University): The suggestion that my family received church lands-is offensive and untrue. ., -,
REJECTION OF THE BILL MOVED. f Received April 27, 9.10 a.m.)-
TX>NDON. April 2G
Mr George Harwood has given notice to move the roi.eeti.sn of the Welsh .Di.vr.rfabli.slnnOTit Bill.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10621, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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215DISESTABLISHMENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10621, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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