The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
HOME RULE MEASURE
IS GAINING GROUND
Second Reading Passes House
of Commons by an In
creased Majority.
Special Cable to The Tribune.

Special Cable to The Tribune
| LONDON, May 9.-The second reading
Of the home rule Dill passed in the house
Of commons late tonight by vote Of
S7c to 271
The vote was reached after a long
storm Of oratory interspersed with in
terruptions and one or two exciting in
| cidents by occupants OF the crowded
galleries
John Redmond, in opening the debate.
said no thought the justice Of the claim
OF Irishmen 10 manage their own af-
fairs was now generally conceded
Underlying the speeches of the Union
lists during the debate" said the Irish
leader, f'there has been supposition
that. having obtained their great charter
of liberty, the Irish people would prove
themselves a nation OF fools and at once
set to work to wreck and ruin their own
constitution" This idea Mr. Redmond
controverted at great length
Favored Referendum.
Mr., Chaplin contended that the bill
had not been considered by the elec-
torate. He regarded the bill as danger
ous both TO the interests OF ireland and
to Great Britain.
T. w. Russell although opposing the
previous home rule bills. said he would
support the present one. as there had
been an extraordinary change since 1886 |
Ramsay Macdonald, the labor leader.
said that the Protestnnts OF Ulster We're
beginning to discover there was far more |
Of economies than religion in the agita-
tion of ascendancy-not ascendancy over
Catholics but over labor.
While r. l.. Thomas was reading an
extract from the paper. IriRh Freedom,
a stranger In the gallery called out,
Our paper Is published every-where-r
The disturber refused to be sllenced,
and continued to shout imprecntions at
the speaker amid general -uproar, until
he had been forcIbly elected.
House Is Crowded.
1t was tine most largely attended house
Of the present parliament Both sides
had done their utmost 70 secure every
available vote. Mr. Baltour. former op-
position lender. and Mr.. Churchill, first
ord Of the admiralty. returned from
Weymouth I'm order to be present.
The announcement Of the figures show
ng an increased majority occasioned en-
husiastic demonstrations on the govern !.
nent side. and the prime minister was
,iven a great ovation on leaving the , ,
'ouse with his wife and daughter by the
rowd that assembled outside ,
The bill was referred 10 n committee :,
4 the whole house. but as homo rule and :,
Welsh disestablishment are being taken h
st will now be tho turn Of
he Welsh bill.
Tactics of Opposition.
The committee stage OF tho home rule - -
Ill is not expected 10 be reached until =
fter Whitsuntdc and probably will
ccupy a couple of months even with lib- :,
raj application OF the closure rules. as
st OF amendments and will adopt every a,
ossible means to obstruct the measure. ~
Curiously. the second reading OF the .,
ONE rule bill comedies with the disap- y,
eerance OF the word conse ervative as -,
le official designation of the Tory party
conference OF the Conservative and sc
LIBERAL Unionists parties today finally OF
,soved fusion Of the two parties oe
nder the title Of National Unionist as 10
Thus the Liberal UnionIsts a
no seeded from Gladstone on his w
Ipousal OF home rule, now become part W
nd parcel OF the Tory party. ar