OCR Text |
Show VIJ VETO BILL WILL."-"" 60 BACK TO LORDS London, Aug. 8 Lord Hugh Cecil's Ce-cil's motion that consideration of the veto bill be postponed was rejected 348 to 209, and a motion to begin con slderation of the lords' amendment to the veto bill was agreed to. Tho veto bill made Its final appearance appear-ance in the house of commons today and tonight It will be sent back to the house of lords with probably two or three amendments. There was a crowded house. Sir Edward H. Carson, unionist, devoted de-voted himself today to home rule and promised the government that the intention in-tention of passing a home rule by force would be resisted by force. The homo rule contest will bo settled by Balfour and not by Westminster, he At ono point Carson nearly caused an outbreak by referring to Mr As-quith's As-quith's communication to "Mr. Balfour on the biibject of the King's guarantees, guaran-tees, as "a blackmailing letter." The mlnisteralists .were on their feet in an lnstunt, howling defiance and demanding de-manding that the words ho withdrawn with-drawn The speaker, however, ruled that although Carson had sailed near the wind, the words were not unparliamentary. unpar-liamentary. Home Secretary Churchill followed, strongly depreca'ting the resort to disorder dis-order and rlbt advocated by Cecil and Carson, saying: "There are 70.000 dockers on strike at this momenCin London. Some of them are hungry Should some of them who are suffering break out in riot, you would-be tho first to ask that soldiers he sent to the scene " Mr Churchill also stated that, when the ministers conferred with the King in No ember in regard to the guarantees, guar-antees, he was made fully acquainted with all matters in dispute between the parties, "among which home rule was one of the most important" The impression which the speaker evidently evident-ly soucht to convey was that the Klim was in favor of home rule for Ireland. |