Show I l j In the Commons LONDON April 30In the House of Commons today Balfour in moving the second reading of the bill to pay a alary to Colonel King Harmon asUnder Under Secretary for Ireland urged the ecessitV of having the salary attached to thepost John 1orIev moved that the bill bt ejected He reminded tht House or the distinct pledge given by the government govern-ment that no salary would be attached to tbe office The appointment of Colonel King Harmon to the post he said was regarded ny the people as significant that the government were taking sides in the social war again in Ir land The office was wholly needless and was created to give something to a man whom the ministry found ontheir hands It was an appointment which had plucked out by the roots any confidence whicu the Irish had still felt in the government govern-ment After a heated debate the bill passed its second reading In the debate on Balfours Irish land commission bill Balfonr offered to give a favorable cons iderati in of any suggestions sug-gestions or amendments which wuuld improveits workings I Purnell said he failed to see the neJ ces ty lor the bill which was frivolous I and unsubstantial to the last degree i The truper thing was to increase the i numberot bubconinlisfcions not to raise the already swollen Hooted salaries I sala-ries of the Irsh county court judges The motion for the ocoud tvadin I of the ht tl was then curried by a vote oi I 22S tolbi J |