The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13
HOME RULE BILL
IS IN NO DANGER
Redmond Sends Message to
Irish in America
SPIRIT HAS CHANGED
No Longer the Intense Hostility Be-
tween Ireland and England-Lord
and Lady Decies to Enter
tain Next Friday

BY THOMAS EMMETT


Dublin. April 12.-(specaD-John Red.
mond tl1e-Irish lecturer, assures the irish
In America that the home rule bill is in
no danger. eIn the summer of 1911" says
Redmond 1T will become law under the
parliament act" He repudiates the in
sistent rumor that the Irish parliament
TO be reconstructed, "cannot return. to
the cold house in, College Green =
you may be quite certain" he told
me on his way to visit his Waterford
constituents, that there is nothing what
ever In these rumors I have not myself
heard them as much as suggested Even
ii they had been, you may be sure that
the universal sentiment in ireland would
insist on the parliament going back there.
It is said that the building is not quite
convenient for modern parliamentary
Asses. Even IL II were, the ties of menu
ory and tradition should be too strong to
be broken. No Irishman would dream of
having his parliament anywhere else.
Il suppose the present lord lieutenant
will cease to hold office when the act
Is passed, and a new lord lieutenant ap-
pointed by the terms of the act for fixed
tenure. He will really be rather gov
ernor general than a lord lieutenant
Ills first duty will be to choose minis
try. Offices and departments must be
created and set up and for some months
the ministry will no doubt be occupied IN
drawing up and issuing provisional orders
and preparing standing orders which
must be submitted to the Irish house of
commons when 1t Is elected But I hope
that six months after the passing of the
I,.tcl f.o
able to meet the elected representatives
of Ireland Should 1t fail to secure its
confidence, or the confidence of the ma
jority, then 1t will have to resign and an
other ministry representing the views of
that majority will take place.
Irish Ministers at Westminster
What | asked him, of the Irish
members who are to be left at West
minster?"
you will find, | think, that they will
be a very good type of member-not at
all of the uninterested absentee kind that
some people seem to imagine. have
no doubt there will be a great desire
should have it myself il I were in the
position not to interfere at all in purely
English or Scottish local affairs. | fancy
they will distribute themselves over the
three remaining great parties in the state.
There will be some liberals, some labor
men and some conservatives. just as p1e
compact Irish vote in some English con-
stituencies at present will find itself be-
ing distributed under the U dinary poll
tical headings.
And. of course, Irish members Will
then take an active part in the affairs OF
the empire as. a whole. They will have
4 no longer any reason for abstainng. Yhey
will be like the rest of the house ean-
didates for office and some of them
do not doubt, will sit in on the treasury
bench.
IN few years as no ministry Is likely
TO be formed now which does not contain
members sitting for Scottish as well as
English constituencies, ministry will
be likely to be< formed which does not
contain a member sitting for an irish
constituency.
Mr.. Redmond said he was conscious OF
a tremendous change in the attitude Of
Ireland and England towards each other
in recent years. "In England" he said,
1.-The old spirit OF marked hostility has
gone down. Not. remember, that 1t Is
yet dead. Were anything to happen az
the last moment to balk ireland OF home
rule, it would revive in a more accentu-
ated form than we-have ever known IN
the past.
Lady Decies to Entertain
s"There will be gay doings next Friday
night at Luttrels town, the beautiful
home of Lord and Lady Decies. Lady
Decies. formerly Vivian Could, has ar
ranged a dance and house party for the
distinguished visitors who will be over
from England to take in one. of the great
Irish events of the year-Punchestown
races. She is now one of the most popu-
lar Figures in smart Irish society.
Queer Way of Evading Law
The Irish are famous for their ca
pacity to ride coach and six through
any act of parliament. as Dan O'Connell
F-., Jt.ts- u,
court most remarkable testimony has
Just been given In case tried by the
magistrates of Rallymoney, Count An
trim, where one of the vealthest and
most eccentric members Of the Irish bar,
Robert Cramsie, was prosecuted by the
irish insurance commissioners far falling
to lick stamps or in other words,
declaring to pay the contributions under
the national insurance act in respect OF
three employees. The defenset was that
the latter were not servants, but guests
living in his house.
Maria Crawford said she had been
Kitchen maid for four years, but was dis
missed Oh July / by Mr.. Cramsie, who
raid she was no longer his servant. and
ne was no longer her master. There
would be no more wages aud no more
pay Since then she had been. in the
house as a friend doing just whatever
she pleased Mr.. Cramsie paid her no
wages, but gave her presents and he now
did the work in the house himself-such
as lighting fires.
Mary Quinn. who had been housekeep-
ing for 20 years, but was dismissed In
July said she now just occupied her time
"mooning about She had got some pres
ents from Mr.. Carmise. The latter an
swered the door and attended to the fires
and she had seen him carrying food to
the kitchen.
John Crawford gave evidence of a SINH
lar character and said he was happy now,
because there was no one like Mr..
Carmise BY majority, the magistrates
imposed fine of sixpense in each case
and ordered the cards to. he stamped
from the heainnino subsequently, increas-