The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-07-07
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.A|NENDHOME
RULE BILL
House of Lords Passes to Second
Reading Measure Intended to
Give Opposing Counties in Ire
land Opportunity to Remain Out
Of New Government for Period
Of Six Years.

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LONDON, July 7. Associated Press
by Federal wireless) BY a vote o.
27S to 10 the house Of lords yesterday
passed through second reading the bill
to amend the Irish Home Rule Bin.
The measure is compromise on the
measure which recently passed the
house of commons for the third time.
IL indicates that the government in
tends to be more liberal with the I'm
ionists, or Ulsterites, than was at first
inferred by the opponents of home
rule.
Poll Can Be Demanded.
This refers to a provision Of the first
clause which says that If within three
months after the date Of the passing
Of the act petition is presented to
the lord lieutenant from any county in
Ulster demanding poll with reference
to the question of temporary exclusion
from operation of the act and the lord
lieutenant is satisfied that the petition
is signed by not less than one-tenth
of the parliamentary electors in that
county he shall cause poll to be Ia
ken. The question Is 10 be submitted
to the electors in the following form:
Are you in favor of exclusion from
the operation of the Government Of Ire.
land Act, 1914, for period of six
yearsRD
While Mr.. Lloyd George was declar-
ing that this weeks bin in the House
of Lords would embody the Prime
Minister 8 standing offer Of county op-
tion to Ulster, Sir Edward Carson, in
4 a.. "A
he would once more describe IL as an
hypoeritical sham And his party would
prevent its becoming ,layr, =.
Let It Bs vetoed.
ft'Tn the near future. therefore, I,
says the Daily Chfohicle, fthe gov,
ernment win be confronted with the
alternative of either widening county
option or letting it be vetoed by the
House of Lords. The government 's
right course then will be to let it be
vetoed. - ~H. Aaa
The fact is, 2 continues the Chron.
icle, that scarcely anybody in Ire
land wants exclusion. The Carsonites
never wanted il except as cry
through which they could defeat Home
Rule. Ever since II was definitely of.
fered them in conjunction with the Ger.
tainty of Home Rule for the rest of
Ireland, their one care has been to
find excuses for not accepting it. For
these reasons we shall shed no tears
when the House of Lords tupbles the
possibilities of exclusion to the ground
The country will then take note that
exclusion has been fairly offered and
its rejection is due to those who pre-
tend to want it.
Hopeless Impasse. "3 r
Sir Henry Lucy, a prominent Liberal
Of long parliamentary experience, whose
relations with the ministers is often
intimate, writing in the Observer, says
the Irish question has drifted into what
looks like hopeless impasse. Ulster
still insists upon the absolute and final
exclusion of the province from the bill.
This, Mr.. Asquith cnnnot and will not
grant, A remarkable Nationalist vol
unteer organization which exists pre-
vents IL, he says. Moreover, Sir Henry
says considerable influential section
Of the ministerialists in the commons
would turn and rend the government
If they thus mutilated the fundamental
principle of home rule namely, the
Ultimate unity of ireland under q par,
lament in Dublin. &