The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-04-21
Andrew Bonar Law Declares
Statements of Minister As
quith on Ulster Situation to
Be Untrue.
WILD SCENE FOLLOWS
AS LEADERS CLASH
Charged Openly that Army
Crisis Was Deliberate Plot
to Force Uprising in Ulster.
my Leased Wire to Evening Herald. ]

tBy Leased Wire 10 Evening Herald. ]
London, Apru 2t.-A stormy scene
was created iu the house of com
mons today when Andrew Bonar
Law. leadrr Of the opposition. de-
manded judicial inquiry into the
naval and military movements re-
gently contemplated by the govern
ment at Ulster, The unionists charge
that these movements constituted a
plot Ia provoke an uprising in Uls-
ter.
Premier Asquith refused judicial
inquiry. as he said the charges had
been proved false. hut he challenged
Mir. Law to make any accusations he
wished to make ia the house itself
when he would be- given the fullest
opportunity for discussion.
Amid the cheers and angry shouts
of their supporters. the two leaders
took their places alternately at the
table challenging each other.
Uproar followed MIR Laws declsra-
tion that the statements made by
Premier Asquith and his colleagues
had been proven untrue.
The scene ended. when, amid min
istcrial cries of take your day for
discussion" Mr. Law said that after
b" had seen what the promised
"whitc paper contained he would
consider what steps IL is really
worth while to take.
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said ~ am Tor the committee reso-
luton. because if this assassin. this
traitor, this brute. who is now In au-
thority in Mexico should salute the
would not have To- go Under the
Lodge resolution we would have TO
go. The senator from Massachusetts
wants th" resolution ON such broad
grounds that 10 win be- sufficient to
make as stay IN Mexico when We ge,
there. want it on such narrow
grounds that if Hucrta dies. il Huer-
"a Is assassinHtcd, or II lIuerta sa-
lutos the flag we can come on
home"
Senator Bradley Republican. Of
Kentucky. declared his willingness To
support the president.
81 ana not only in favor Of sending
the flag tu demand reparatlon for in
suit ne said, but am IN favor OF
sending the flag TO Mexico 10 protect
American ciuzens from rapino and
plumber and murder I agree with
the senator from Massachusetts, that
the present resolution ls not broad
enough"
After senator Bradley concluded.
Senator Works offered his resolution
90 accept iiucrta's expression of Te-
grct ag fun satisfaction. senator
Works pleaded for peace.
"llow much better IL would have
been ho said Ell the president him
self had declared that tine apology
and the dischurgc OF our sailors from
arrest was sufficient. ! fear we lack
the moral courage to say to this poor
stricken nation that apology already
made is enough"
senator Works said that he had
not offered his resolution to crit-
Cize tho course at the president fc
did not expect his resolution 20 be-
passed he said asserting further tha.
eve are going headlong into the ter
rihlc conditions of war;
$50 matter what may bee the lin.
its in the mind of the president in
the matter said senator McCumb Der,
Republican. "the result of the reso-
luton, mo- matter how worded, would
be- war {, win Doe an the war that a
poor internally torn. pleading ana
exhausted country can maintain
against the most powerful OF an ma
lions on earth"
Does senator McCumher regard
an insult to the American flag on an
American boat representig Ameri-
ca sovereignty. as trivial Offense.
demanded Senator Williams.
1T Is not trivial said senator
NcCumheF. hut do not place the
uniform above "a live American ani
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