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Second Reading. The second reading (the first was before Parliament adjourned) of the Irish Boundary Commission Amending Bill was moved by Premier MacDonald. He said in his speech that "everything would be done" to bring about a compromise between the Free State and Northern Ireland before the bill became law. Meanwhile, he contended, the measure must be passed because Britain's honor was at stake. Then, paying a pretty compliment to the Conservatives, he asseverated...
After speeches by ex-Premier George and ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain, the bill passed its second reading by 291 to 124 votes...
...Coolidge has been accused of many things which are in reality the fruits of President Harding's Administration, but which he even then handled with tact and firmness. He opposed the Bonus Bill strongly, and as strongly supported Preparedness, actions which have won him general admiration. Certainly he is not a genius; equal certainly is he the conservative, level-headed man which the country needs today...
...every respect, is La Follette. Much has been said of what he will do--very little--or nothing--of what he has done. In the war his record as a pacifist and obstructionist was comparable to that of William Randolph Hearst. He voted for the despicable Bonus Bill for the same mercenary reasons as did the other renegade Republicans and Democrats. In doing this he joined those who defeated the wise plan of Secretary Mellen to lower the country's taxes. He is said to represent the American farmer--his real supporters are dissatisfied German, Polish, and Swedish farmers...
...threatened fall of the British Labor ministry has been postponed for a few days or a few months by the successful hurdling of the Irish bill to provide a commission to adjust the boundary between Ulster and the Free State. The Conservatives hoped to force the resignation of Premier MacDonald's government, and the overwhelming acceptance of this bill shows that the Irish question has at last been removed at least from the vicissitudes of partisan politics. Parliament has found a unified course, a fixed attitude which England will hold vis-a-vis with her new dominion...