The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-15
Meetings To Oppose Measure
Are Held.
"WiIl Be Met by Most Strenu-
Gus Resistance"
LLOYD GEORGE GOVT CRISIS?
Home Rule Bill Now Being
Drafted.
Labor Ministers May Withdraw
From Government.

dublin. april I0--LarSe meetings
to oppose CONSUMPTION were held yes
terday in Armagh. Limerick. Tulla-
more, Omagh. Carlow. Cashel and
other places. They were not inter-
fered with and there was no disturb
ance.
Cardinal Logue, primate of Ireland,
preaching at Dungannon. said the con-
scr1ption proposal for Ireland was the
gravest blunder the government had
made and would lead to the utmost
disorder and would be met with the
most strenuous passive resistance
Anything in the nature of organized
physical resistance was to be depre-
Gated and would not be favored by
him.
Serious state of Affairs.
London. April 15.-At the week end
a serious state of affairs developed.
affecting the position of the Lloyd
George government, according to the
parliamentary correspondent of the
Daily News. The labor party, he says,
is opposed to Irish CONSUMPTION and
the la Dor ministers are considering,
whether they can support the govern
ment-
| George Nicol. Barnes, who is a
| member o. the var cabinet, is said to
! be IN complete disa greement with the
| government on the Irish conscription
policy If the governments propo-
sails are pressed forward in the way
| indicated by Premier Lloyd George
an6 Chancellor of the Exchequer
BOnar Law, the correspondent ADDS,
| It is proba BILE the labor executive will
| cali on the labor ministers to with
| draw from the government Some
| Liberal members are believed to be
! very adverse to Irish CONSUMPTION
| Thc situation. it is added, will have
to be composed today or tomorrow.
| or Ire government will be in grave
difficulties.
Drafting Home Rule Bill.
A committee of the British cabinet
is how drafting an Irish home rule
bill. the parliamentary correspondent
of the Dahl Telegraph says. An Irish
parliament and executive will be
established with full powers over the
internal legislation and administra
ton and over direct taxation. Rep
| resentation in the imperial parliament
| will be retained in the form of a
! eel ,gation of forty-two irish mem
ber&. An irish senate of sixty-four
members, he adds, will be constituted
by alloting representations to differ
en-. interests.
The Irish horse of commons will
consist of 200 members, eighty guar
ante ed to be Unionists chosen in the
south by nomination and in Ulster by
e1 additional direct election
Supreme authority of the imperial
parliament will be recognized by the
| reservation of powers relating to the
crown to foreign relations to the army
and navy and to minor services and
interests. Control of the police and
postoffice will be retained for the Pc
| riod of the war.
Finances to Wait on War.
/ For the period of the war and two
years afterward. the control of Gus
toms and excise will be reserved. AS
soon as possible after the extablish-
ment of an Irish parlia ment. a joint
exchequer board will be set up to de-
| termine the true revenue of Ireland
On the conclusion of peace a royal
commission will be appointed to ex-
anime impartially and thoroly the
financial relation of Great Britain and
Ireland to report what contribution
Ireland ought to make to imperial
expenditures, and to submit proposal
as to the best means of adjusting the
economic and fiscal relations of the
two countries Provision. the CORE
spondent continues. probably will be
made for the appointment of an u
ster committee within the Irish par
Lament with power to modify or even
exclude the application from Ulster of
measures of legislation OF administra-
ton which may not be deemed consis-
tent with the interests of the province.