18 JULY 1914, Page 2

After two more speeches, the Bill was read a third

time. This fact, however, did not, under the elastic procedure of the Lords, prevent Lord Dunraven from moving a new clause declaring that the Government might, by an Order in Council, suspend the operation of the Home Rule Act until a Com- mission had reported on the Constitutional relations of Ireland to the other parts of the United Kingdom. This proposal drew a somewhat angry speech from Lord Morley. He not only criticized Lord Dunraven's scheme, but declared that the Peers could not expect the House of Commons to take their transformed Bill as a substitute for, or alternative to, the Bill which they had thrice passed by enormous majorities.