New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-15
Clause Providing for Sus-
pension of Main Act
Inserted.
MORLEY CONDEMNS
PEERS AMENDMENTS
Says They Amount to Elaborate
and Disingenuous Method of
Rejecting the Measure.
fRy cahl. 10 The Tribune ]

London July 15.-ln the proceed
iugs in the House Of Lords yester-
day on the Home Rule amending bill
the Unionist press protested to see
signs that the government is divided
on the question of "a clean cut" for
Ulster, Lord Crewe first appeared TO
make an appeal for Cancellation, only
to be followed by defiant speech
from Lord Morley, who told the Union.
lat peers that il the transformed bill
were to be taken as the peers last
word on the subject, the debate had
been only an overelaborate and dis
ingenious way of rejecting It.
Soon after Lord Morley made this
fiery speech. Lord Beauchamp, First
Commissioner of Works and one OF
the Younger members of the Cabinet,
threw out the suggestion that the gov
eminent might be willing to give IA
cilities for a conference If there we're
any general desire expressed to that
end. The lords amendments to the
bill will be considered at a meeting
of the Cabinet tomorrow, and the
measure will probably come before the
House of Commons on Monday, but
there is no decided opinion one way or
the other as to the fate Of the bill
in that chamber.
Late last night surprise was sprung
by the announcement that Andrew
Bonar Law, leader Of the opposition in
the House Of Commons, had summoned
Sir Edward Carson to London, sup
posedly in connection with a bi-party
conference. A steamer was specially
stopped for the Unionist leader, and he
left Belfast day earlier than he mad
intended.
London, July 14.-The House of
Lords to-day passed the third readlng
of the bill to amend the Irish Home
Rule bill ana sent it across to the
House of Commons for consideration.
In its closing stage in the upper
House the Marquis of Crewe, the LID
eral leader, took part in the debate on
the bill and indirectly promised that
the attainment of an agreement IN re-
gard to the elimination of the time
limit by which the counties of Ulster
we're allowed to vote on the question
of their exclusion for a period Of SIX
years from the operation of the Home
Rule bill would not prove difficult. lie
said, however. that the area of the
portion of Ireland to be excluded had
DccH 50 BICdlig kNb ~
Unionists that it woul be veXed and
critical question. The Unionists, he
argued. had failed to explain how
they proposed to meet the inevitable
objections to exclusion of the Roman
Catholic counties of Ulster and thei"
friends elsewhere in Ireland.
Lord Crewe concluded by asking for
the exercise of patience and forbear-
ance and expressed his firm hope of
successful solution.
Unionist Argument Reiterated.
The MARQUIS of Lansdowne, the
Unionist leader, reiterated that moth
ing short of the Unionist amendments
could avert the imminent peril that
was threatening. He said this was his
explanation of the demand for the
total exclusion of the Province of
Ulster, and he complained that the
government had given the Unlonists no
assistance whatever in the task OF
averting civil var.
The Earl of Dunravcn moved the in
sertion of a new clause providing that
the King might by an Order in Coun-
Gil suspend the operation of the Home
Rule act until commission should
have reported on the constitutional re-
lations of Ireland to the other parts
of the United Kingdom. He argued
that by means of such commission
there would be hopes of creating a
situation that might lead some day to
a satisfactory final settlement of the
whole problem and that peace might
be achieved without dismemberment.
Lord Dunraven's motion was adopted
without division, although it aroused
no enthusiasm. Lord Lansdowne said it
was vague and open to the objection of
putting the whole Empire into the
melting pot on the chance of getting
the government out of purely domes-
tic difficulty.
Settlement Is Pressing.
Affairs in Ulster, he continued,
brooked no delay, and in no circum-
stances would his side of the House
accept the clause as a substitute for
their own amendments. But if these
were accepted and incorporated in the
act there might be considerable ad-
vantage in the proposed inquiry.
Lord Morley, of Blackburn, in be-
half of the government, described it
as purely academic proposition
brought forward at the moment of the
crisis, for which there was no prece-
dent. With regard to the other
amendments adopted by the House Of
Lords, he said their effect would be to
enlbitter relations ard increase the
difficulties of settlement. They
amounted virtually to an elaborate
method of rejecting the bill. 1t would
have been far more straightforward,
he declared, if they had voted for
Lord Willoughby de Broke's motion
for the rejection of the amending bill.
At the suggestion of Lord Crewe
the bill was read third time without
a vote being taken.