Mr. Redmond at once retorted with: "I emphatically repudiate the
interpretation which has been put upon one clause of the agreement. That clause was inserted in the draft Bill by the Government. We stand by every word of it." He then went on to state that on the previous Saturday Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Samuel had conveyed to him a message from the Cabinet. That message was that the Cabinet had come to a decision on the two points mentioned above in Mr. Asquith's reply, and that Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Samuel were not authorized to consult Mr. Redmond on the matter, but only to inform him of what had been decided. Mr. Redmond therefore moved the adjournment of the House in order to call attention to the "rapidly growing unrest in Ireland " and the " deplorable effect " of the refusal of the Government "to carry out in their entirety the terms which were proposed by them for the temporary settlement of the Irish difficulty and which were . . . accepted by both the Irish parties."
