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Show HOME RULE BILL ! MUST BE POT Draft of Measure Making Rapid Progress and Forecast for Ireland Favorable. STRONG EFFORTS MADE House Will Put Bill Through, But Lords May Bring Objections. LONDON April 17 While Nationalist Nation-alist Ireland is making plans for re- , sistance to the enforcement of conscription con-scription in their country, the rest of, tho United Kingdom is more interest-ed interest-ed in thf home rulo bill which Georce Niekoll Barnes Labor member of the war cabinet without portfolio announced an-nounced in the house of commons yes terday the government would intro duco and pass or fall in tlte attempt. A committee consisting ot such former for-mer anti-home rulers as Walter Hume Long, J. Austen Chamberlain and A. W. Samuels, solicitor-general for Ire land, with Mr 1". r. v.iihli has ber n engaged In drafting tne bill, hold a second meeting yesterday and reported report-ed It had made rapid progress. The home rule b'll. it is understood, will take the form of a measure amend ing the government of Ireland act which passed just before the outbreak of the war General opinion favors a 1 federal measure which could bo applicable appli-cable to Scotland. Wales and England. Several motions suggesting the introduction intro-duction of a federal system already have appeared in the house of commons com-mons while a large majority of those Unionists who have become converts to home rule also favor that system. Ireland Has Good Chance, Never, on the surface at any rate, has Ireland had such a good chance of getting a form of .elf -government. At a meeting of the Unionist war committee, which was called to consider con-sider the matter but which adjourned until today without reaching a decision, decis-ion, several speakers urged that every possible effort should be made to secure se-cure a home rule settlement even at the cost of cherished principles. With all the Liberals, Laborites, Nationalists Na-tionalists and a lrge part of the Unionists supporting the bill, it should I have an easy passage in the house of commons What the house of lords, those old enemies of home rule, will I do is uncertain but with two former anti-homo ruler-, Earl Curzou and Viscount Mllner, as members of tbe government supporting it the opposition opposi-tion is likely to be less strenuous than on former occasions when the commons com-mons sent such a measure to the up-I up-I per house. Tho Irish Nationalist mem-! mem-! bcrs of parliament, having fought conscription con-scription to the laai in the house ol I commons, are leaving for Dublin to , formulate plans for resisting it. |
