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Lord Crewe made a somewhat feeble defenoe both of the

poll by counties and of the time-limit. Why were the six hundred and ninety thousand Roman Catholics to be left out of a system in which they were anxious to be included? He ended by asking whether the adoption of the Opposition's policy would be certain to prevent civil war. He was followed by Lord Killanin, who very pertinently remarked that the surest way of making the exclusion of Ulster permanent was to enact that it should be temporary. On the Committee dividing, there were 158 votes in favour of leaving out the poll by counties and 35 against, a majority of 123.