The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-08-01
IRISH PARTY SAVES
GOVERNMENT MAJORITY
Carsonites Present Resolution =
stead of Revolution--Majority
Drops to Twenty-three.
Session Announced to Erd Late in
August with New Session
in November,
Large Number of Ex-Army Men in
Irish Volunteers Estimated
at $4,000

irish volunteers Estimated
at $4,000
(The Irish Press Agency
An Interesting Week.
An exceptionally interesting Par
liamentary and extra-Parliamentary
week closed on Friday. (July 100
with the anti-climax of the meet
ing of the "Ulster Provisional Gov
eminent. at Belfast. On Tuesday,
the Government majority in the
House of Commons dropped to %.
The Normal Government majority is
over go. and the decline was due,
CD to some Is of the rich Liberals
abstaining from voting, owing to dis
satisfaction with the Budget Bills
procedure. (2) to the absence of
a number of hte Labour Members.
and 60 to the O'Brienites, six in
number, voting against the Govern
ment. The division was on the gull
lotine resolution for the committee
stage of the finance bill. If the di-
vision had been taken on Monday
night, as arranged, everything would
have been alright, as there was a
full attendance of members in re-
spouse to the Government Whip.
But. without adequate notice before
hand. the Premier consented to ad-
journ the House on Monday, out of
respect to the memory of Mr.. Jseph
Chamberlain. an honor paid very
rarely. even to really great and dis
tinguished statesmen. Many Liberal
members. arriving on Monday night
in expectation Of a division, were
Disguised at what had been done, and
this may have accounted, in part,
for the drop in the Government ma
jority on Tuesday. On Wednesday
the Government majorities rose to
70 and 80, and the guillotine resolu-
ton was passed. The incident, how
ever, has given rise to much COM
ment, and is a warning which it
would be foolish for the Government
to ignore.
The House of Lords was occupied
on four days of the week in trans
forming the Amending Bill" and
in lacking onto it amendments to the
Home Rule Bill itself. The Amend
ing Bill" is to come down to the
House of Commons this week, and
the proceedings in connection with
1t will be of first-rate Importance.
The Carsonite Council was expect
ed to initiate revolution. Instead
it passed resolution, and Carson
once again declared that 1.-The time
had come" The Twelfth of July
celebrations today are looked for
ward to with some anxiety, lest
slight disturbance might precipitate
an outbreak of rioting in ULSTER"
Civil war, the Unionist leaders have
assured us, is out of the question.
The Amending BILL
Tho Amending Bill' embodied
the Premier's proposals of March 9.
Each county and county borough in
Ulster was to be given the right to
decide by poll of the electors
whether it would or would not be ex-
cluded from the operation of the
Home Rule Bill for six years. 1t is
now thought that only two counties
(Antrim and DOWN., or, at most
four counties (Antrim, Down, Derry
and Armagh), would poll a majority
for exclusion. The excluded area
was to be administered by the Lord
Lieutenant, through such officers
ed by Order in Council. The term
and departments as might be direct
of the Senate was altered, from five
to six years. The excluded area was
to return representatives to the I'm
perial Parliament as at present. The
Joint Exchequer Board. set up un-
der the Home Rule Bill to determine
the cost of Irish services, was to ap-
portion the sum according to popu-
lation between the included and the
excluded areas. The judicial pro-
visions of the Home Rule Bill were
to apply to the excluded area, the
judges to be appointed by the
king; and the civil service committee
were to allot to the excluded area
such number of officers as they
thought proper.
The Lords Amendments"
The Lords refuse to permit the
question of exclusion to be submit
ted to the vote Of the people in the
Ulster Counties. and county Dor
oughs. Instead. they demand the
statutory exclusion of the whole Of
Ulster. indefinitely without any time
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