25 DECEMBER 1920, Page 3

On Friday, December 17th, the Lord Chancellor invited the House

of Lords to concur with the Commons' amendments to the Government of Ireland Bill. He induced the peers to modify their proposals in regard to the Council of Ireland, but they adhered to their demand that the two Senates should each elect seven out of twenty Councillors for the North and the South. Lord Midleton substituted for his clause, which the Commons had rejected, another providing that, if the Sinn Fein members would not accept the Act, another election should be held after the Imperial Parliament had passed a resolution to that effect. Lord Salisbury's renewed proposal that the Act should not come into force in one province or the other until both Houses at Westminster had agreed that it should was rejected.