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Show CHANGE ORDERED INIRISHJILL' Lloyd George Government Suffers Defeat When House of Lords Votes LQNDQN, Dec. 2. The government suffered a defeat in the house of lords1 Wednesday night When an amendment to the Irish home rule bill submitted bj Barpn Oranmors and Browne, providing pro-viding for the establishment of a senate sen-ate for southern Ireland, was carried against the government by a vote of; il'O to 30 it was explained that thi object of the amendment was to safeguard safe-guard the minority southern unionists. Dord Birkenhead, lord high chancel-, lor for the government opposed the) amendment on the ground that such a Senate must bo preponderant!) nnmi-j native, and there was no hope of forcing forc-ing such a second chamber or south-; crn Ireland He emphasized the governments gov-ernments idea that the question of a senate should be left to a central council. coun-cil. Dord Shan don moved an amendment providing for a Joint session of thej southern and nortehrn senate- as i substlute for the Irish council Lord! Birkenhead thought u preferable to discuss the subject at a later stage Earl Mlddleton urged that nothing was! 'more likely to lead to some settlement I than J,"rj Bhandon's proposal rhls amendment was adopted. tS to :t In a later discussion Lord Lnrki-n- head referring to the Lord Shandon I amendment, said that the council va- jan essential part of the government's 'scheme. This now was swept away by Lord Bhandon's lamentable nnd reck-less reck-less amendment. He doubted whether the bill would survive such a severe! blow. An amendment bestowing a second j ohamber on the Ulster parliament was adopted. oo |