Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-26

question of the proper use of the mill
tary forces. He said, however, that all
were agreed the army should be avail
able to help the civil power to pre-
vent anarchy or to stop mob rule. Such
| an occasion had not, he said. arisen
in Ulster.
Mr.. Balfour declared that IL ha wa.a
asked whether the American colonies -
Ulster had had greater justification, e..
resisting the civil power he would not
hesitate to say that the provoc.t;o,, ~,
government was giving Ulster was In.
eomparably greater than was 80
the american colonies. The governments
.l ppai entity was by force going to compel
TINS homogeneous population of the nortb
OF lreland---
PREMIER Asquith interjected: mo. no.
MT baitour asked: Are you not CO.
ing to pass the billy"
ine premier did not reply.
MT, baltour concluded that Col see,v
iiao very properly resigned but that the
government was right in taking him hac,e
as ne had told the country the truth IN
words that would be taken by the army
as It's charter and which made the nrotect
Oh forcing home rule on Ulster honeIa.s
and impossible.
"hiie the debate proceeded in the
Rouse of Commons. viscount Morley IN
the House of Lords made a statemert
similar to that of Premier Asouitb He
SAID that the government had witbdrau,
the last two paragraphs of the document
given to Gen Cough.
Andrew Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law, leader of tho On
position, denounced the governmant,s
measures as a wicked attempt to provo,,s
oloodshed in Ulster. The government,
had not believed il uossibla tho. o.
army had such strong convictions as had
been shown The army considered that
In the matter of home rule the govern-
iiieilt was as much a revolutionary COM
mittee as Huerta's government in Mexi-
co.
Chamberlan's Claim
Austen Chamberlain complained that
the government had revealed no,bin9
concerning the instructions given by the
army council to Gen. Paget. II. as had
been stated. the government merely in
tended the movement of troops to pro
tect the stores, 1t would never have told
Gen. Paget to excuse from service the
officers domiciled in Ulster 1t was in
conceivable, he said, that when the pre-
mier gave his statement to the press on
Sunday he knew that Mr. Churchill had
ordered battle squadron to LamIash.
The honor of the prime minister is at
stake in this matter" he said "and il
is the first lord of the admiralty who
has put it at stake"
Mr.. Chamberlain declared IL was now
known that the two paragraphs for
which the secretary of was assumed sole
responsibility were prepared by him in.
consultation with Viscount Morley. who
was present throughout the proceedings
in which the cabinet participated. Lord
Morley would not have assented to their
inclusion he commended. unless the par
agraphs were a fair Interpretation of
what the cabinet had decided upon and
the premier would not accept Col Seely's
resignation because he had done only
what the cabinet ministers themselves
had assented to.
Mr.. Churchill. rising. said:
Lord Morley had no direct connection
with the paragraphs rererred to. He
merely happened to be with Col Seeiy
in the cabinet room when the dispatch
case containing them was brought in. For
that reason and because he is chival-
rous he assumed responsibility for them
but Col. Seely still accepts the sole and
the fullest responsibility
Mr. Balfour's motion TO reject the Con-
solidated fund bill. which provided the
pretext for the debate. u"s then d1s-~.-d
s14 to 20. Il