The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-10
Majority in Favor of it Was
Seven Larger Than
Before.
ENTHUSIASTIC DEMONSTRATION
GREETED THE new MAJORITY
Prime Minister Was Given Great Ova.
tion When He left the Parliament
House After the Vote-Large At.
tendance of Public at the Session,

London. May 10.-The government
carried the home rule bill on it's Sec
ond reading in the house of commons
last night by a majority of 101, as
against "a for the first reading. The
vote was 372 to 271.
1t was the most largely attended
house at the present parliament.
Both sides had done their utmost to
four. former opposition leader. and
MIR. Churchill. first lord of the ad-
miralty. returned from Weymouth in
order to be present.
The announcement of the figures
showing an increased majority oc-
casioned enthusiastic demonstrations
on the government side. and the
prime minister was given a great
ovation on leaving the house with his
wife and daughter by the crowd as
sembled outside.
The bill formally was referred to a
committee of the whole house. but
as home rule and Welsh disesetblish-
ment are being taken concurrently. it
will now be the turn of the Welsh
bill. The committee stage Of the
home rule bill is not expected to be
reached until after Whitsuntide. and
probably will occupy couple Of
tion of the closure rules, as the op-
position is preparing an endless list
of amendments and will adopt every
possible means to obstruct the meas
ure.
Curiously, the second reading of
the home rule bill comedies with the
disa ppearance of the word conserva-
tives as the official designation of the
tory party. A conference of the con-
I-k
today finally resolved on a fusion of
the two parties under the title of
national unionist association" Thus
the liberal unionists,' who seeded
from Gladstone on his espousal of
home rule. now become part and par
Gel of the tory party.
Laws Opposition.
Andrew Bonar Law. leader of the
opposition. assailed the bill freely.
The government. he declared. was
setting up customs houses not to cre-
ate nation but to destroy the union
| which already existed. He denounc-
ed the safeguards in the bill as futile.
condemned the financial provisions
and drew a gloomy picture of Ire
lands future under home rule.
Every new parliament of inexperi-
enced men, the speaker said, had
tried to get the millennium In a hur-
ry. The new Irish parliament would
launch all sorts of schemes for i'm
proving the condition of the country,
borrowing money for the purpose. AS
a result the imperial parliament
would become liable for huge cap
ital sum it would not have sanctioned
and for expenditures over which it
had no control.
Referring to the example of South
Africa. which had been cited to JUS
tify home rule in Ireland. Mr.. Law
said that in South Africa the two
races wanted union, but that one or
two races in ireland. numbering a
million. was bitterly opposed to home
rule. He asked in such circumstances
| under what principle did the prime
minister justify forcing the accept
ance of the bill on Ulster.
Premier Asquith wound up the de-
bate for the government in a speech
which aroused great enthusiasm on
the part of his supporters. No Sc
rious attempt. he said. had been
made by the opposition to meet the
discussion-the character and per-
sistence of the Irish demand. Had
this demand been made under SIM
liar conditions by any community of
| their own race throughout the en-
pire. there was not a man on either
side who would not say that it was
entitled to consideration.
A demand so persistent. the prime
minister continued. was one which Il
democratic parliament in these days
was bound to assent to it,. If the
Irish vote were eliminated in the
house of commons. there still would
be a majority of so or 60 for home
rule.
Referring to the Ulster threats
MIR. Asquith said he believed the Brit
ish people to be just and generous.
They detested intolerance and perse-
cution in any form. but they were
Of what they believed to be just by
language Of intimidation. The gov
eminent had asked repeatedly What
further safeguards were desired, but
the only answer of the opposition
was that they would receive from
Ulster nothing but unyileding and
uncompromising resistance.
Dealing with the safeguards. the
premier said that II the Irish parlia-
bounds the bound to obey them: no
one could be punished for disobeying
them. The bill was final. in. the
sense that it was the settlement of a
long standing warfare, but no one
claimed for. 1t that there might not
be necessity hereafter to modify
some Of it's provisions. or that they
were not going to proceed further in
the path of devolution.
In conclusion Premier Asquith said
that the claim Of ireland was Of para
mount urgency because there was no
part Of the United Kingdom to
which the imperial parliament owed
30 long and so deep a debt.
WOMAN FAVORS CANTEEN.
Chicago. Nav 1O.=Mrs. WELLINGTON