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Show New Home Rule Bill ij j With Two Separate Parliaments Planned i British Parliament Plans to Introduce Bill Providing for House And Senate for Ireland Daily Sessions Being Held by Cabinet Committee in Charge of the Measure Control of Customs Point of Sharp Difference in Other Home Rule Schemes. ! i i LONDON, Nov 26. A new home rule bill setting up two parliaments in i Ireland with a council or senate of , forty to be chosen by the two prob !ably will be introduced in parliament 'within the next two weeks I Daily sessions are being held b) the I cabinet committee in charge of the ! measure, the subject under discussion' I at present being finance, which Is in j chargeo f the sub-committee under the thairmanship of J. Austen Chamber i ;lain, chancellor of the exchequer Con-j trol of customs has always been a, point of Sharpest difference when otlv I er home rule schemes have been de-j 1 bated and was one of the rocks upon 'which the Irish convention was ship-; wrecked Control of police is another knotty point Chaplain Pleads Not Guilty. LONDON. Nov 26 Father O'Don-uell, O'Don-uell, the Australian chaplain who was 'arrested on October 18 charged with ihe ase of traitorous and disloyal lan tuage. oleaded not guilty when ar- raigned before a court martial here to- day. Premier Hushes of Australia, recently recent-ly appealed by cable to Lord M liner, secretary of stato for the colonies, ask ing for Father O Donnell's release and saving that the clergyman who was a chaplain with Australian troops during dur-ing the war "had proved himself a patriot " LONDON. Nov. 26. Labor members mem-bers of parliament here are agitating for an increase in their parliamentary salaries which now are about $2,000 b vear. The present salary, which represents rep-resents a pre-war purchasing value ot approximately $800 is regarded as hopelessly inadequate for the maintenance mainten-ance of a legislator here In London It is understood that a proposal is to be put forward for a modified plan of payment by attendance. The plan, which is being canvassed is that every member of parliament living out of London should be entitled to traveling expenses and a subsistence aliowanc of 55 for every day on which he attends at-tends parliament |