Show i. i GA CABINET INET CRISIS CAISIS SEEMS NEAR IN J r f ill Bo Bonn Bonnar ar Law Curtails Holiday Holi- Holi day clay a y and Hastens I lIo Borne ome e OBrien O'Brien Case ase Vexing LONDON Ma May 15 By A A. P. P P.- P. I Reports that Prime Minister ter Bonar I JAW Law is returning to London from I Switzerland today gave cravn rise to the j t 1 I. I 1 c I. I 7 t. t suggestion that he has curtailed his holiday In consequence of ot the position position tion in which the government finds Itself in regard to the Art OBrien O'Brien habeas corpus proceedings According to the tho opposition politicians politicians politicians poli poli- and press presa the situation is extremely serious and they treat it much like a ministerial crisis The Tho cabinet met last night T Tho To o ministers seem to have been particularly particularly particularly par par- concerned with measures measureS' I to protect Home Secretary Bridgeman Bridge- Bridge I man and others against th the penalties penalties penalties penal penal- i ties Involved In a breach of ot the t habeas corpus act of ot 1610 1670 which provides that n no resident of ot England England England En En- gland may be sent as a a. prisoner to any beyond the seas ins In in eluding Ireland It also dec declares res that persons responsible for thede of ot a prisoner in violation of the act may incur penalties Including in including in- in confiscation of ot lands and goods arrest and outlawry It has been supposed that the government Ko would Introduce an anIn indemnity in- in bill to protect the officials responsible for tor the l f March I I i t 7 r t r 1 flo II 4 r U ns It Is now understood l that the government has hns decided to to defer Introduction of ot tho bill Political writers In tho the opposition press say that the government willbe willbe will willbe be sternly called to account for tho the delinquencies of ot Secretary Bridgeman Bridge- Bridge man Attorney General Sir Douglas Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las Hogg and Viscount Novar Navar the secretary for tor Scotland In allowing the prisoners to be sent to Ireland There Thero Is an Insistent demand for tor forthe torI tho the resignation of these officials It Is Is' Is said ald that Secretary Bridgeman Bridget Bridge- Bridge man has already offered to step down but that his colleagues refuse to consider this his retirement |