15 OCTOBER 1927, Page 2

• It is believed that there will be little contentious

business for several weeks. Perhaps the ordinary par- liamentary business if it absorbs Mr. De Valera's attention will deflect .him from his purpose of later raising Constitu- tional questions in an acute form.- There are signs that a struggle is preparing between Protectionists and Free "Traders. Mr. Cosgrave's party is in the main for Free Trade, though Mr. Cosgrave, of course, approves of " selective tariffs," but the Republicans are rapidly be- coming out-and-out Protectionists. Those who hope that Mr. De Valera's power will dwindle ask for nothing better than that he should try to raise high tariffs against England and Northern Ireland with whom three-quarters of the trade.of the Free State is carried on.