The Home Rule- Bill made rapid progress-in Committee of the
House on Trreaday. Samuel Hoare and several other -Union- ists supported an amendment to• exclude Irish representatives from the- Imperial Parliament whenever the Northern and Southern• Iiisk • Parliaments agreed to • unite, but Mr. Long declined to accept a proposal which,-he said, would-deter Protes- tant Ulster from ever- -uniting with the Roman Catholic South and- West. The--amendment -was' rejected.. On• the- motion of Colonel Guinness, it.was agreed that the number of Irish members at Westminster should be forty-six•, and-not forty-two, so thatthe four Irish University members,- who were independent, might continue to attend. Lord Robert Cecil's proposal to omit the clause establishing separate Supreme Courts for the North and South, on the ground of expense, was defeated by 181 votes-to 29.
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