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Show ANDREW BONAR LAW, British cabinet member, who announces that government is not ready to accept ac-cept a referendum in Ireland. 5 iiiiiiili SIWIllH! I REFERENDUM VOTE HUM) British Government Is Not Ready to Adopt Idea, Bonar Law Says. LONDON, July 16. Reports that Great Britain and the United States had entered into an agreement agree-ment regarding their respective military establishments were denied in the house of commons today by Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer. By Universal Service. LONDON, June 16. "The British government gov-ernment la not prepared to adopt the suggestion of a referendum in Ireland," said Andrew Bonar Law, the government's govern-ment's spokesman in the house of commons, com-mons, late today in response to a query. Answering a question regarding the right of self-dstermlflation and its application appli-cation to Ireland, Bonar Law said: "There is a difference of opinion regarding re-garding the principle of self-determination." I Sir Edward Carson's Orange day I speech then came up in the debate. Members vigorously attacked tho Ulster leader, saying the threats of rebellion and civil war he uttered In that speech constituted a grave offense. The government's spokesman advised the house that there was no way prescribed pre-scribed by the constitution or by -the laws of the empire by which action could be taken against Sir -Edward on account of his utterances. A verbal duel between the government's spokesman spokes-man and John Devlin, the Irish Nationalist Nation-alist leader, ensued when Bonar Law, In answer to a quest idn, declared: "It is not proposed to consider the question of Ireland at the next meeting Dt the league." "What is the league for?" asked Devlin. "To prevent war," answered Bonar Law. "Isn't the best way to prevent war to (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) John Robert Clynes, laborite, permission to move adjournment of the house for the purpose of challenging the government govern-ment to set the law in motion against Sir Edward for a speech inciting to violence vio-lence and endangering the safety of the realm. Mr, Clynes said there were many poor illiterate men now in prison for saying less harmful things than Carson had said. It was the government's duty to see that the law was equitably enforced. en-forced. Mr. Clynes described Sir Edward as the "arch apostle of direct action." Lord Hugh Cecil and other Unionist members condemned Carson's remarks as indefensible. The attorney general, Sir Gordon Stewart, declared that the allegation that Sir Edward Carson's speeches invited a breach of the law and violence had broken down. There was nothing in the speech in question upon which it was. possible to found legal proceedings, he said. The passage referring to the calling call-ing out of volunteers, he added, was hypothetical hy-pothetical and comingent on depriving Ulster people of their rights as British subjects, and this nobody proposed to do. 1 REFERENDUM VOTE II MP (Continued from Page One.) withdraw the army of occupation from Ireland?" suggested Devlin. - "I suggest that the necessity of having an army there be withdrawn first." LONDON, July 16. (By the Associated Associat-ed Press.) Sir Edward Carson's speech Saturday has brought the Ulster leader under the lash of the newspapers of all parties, primarily on account of his references ref-erences to the United States, which are criticised as tactless and calculated to breed bad blood between the two nations, na-tions, and, secondly, because he reiterated reiterat-ed his old threat to call out the Ulster volunteers to resist any attempt to place the home rule act in operation. The labor organs a,re not slow to point out how such incitement to "direct action" ac-tion" could be improved upon in the industrial field for securing political ends. The liberal pro-Irish papers are equally quick to point out that in point of tactics there is no difference between "King De Vaiera and King Carson." The matter came up in the house of commons tonight when the speaker gave |