Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1920 — BRITISH PREMIER REBUKES SENATE FOR INTERFERING [ARTICLE]

BRITISH PREMIER REBUKES SENATE FOR INTERFERING

London, March 31.—The United States was handled without gloves by Premier Lloyd George and Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster unionist leader, in the debate today in the house of commons on the second reading of the Irish bill. The premier said that it was action such as that taken by the United States senate in adopting the Irish resolution that had fostered cessesion. “De Valeria is putting forth the same views in the same words that Jefferson Davis used,” the premier declared and added that such. a movement had led to civil war. “We are doing nothing more than the United States claimed for themselves,” he continued, “and will stand no less.” Sir Edward Carson m opening the debate, said that he believed that the Irish murders were committed “not by countrymen but by ill-conditioned Americans, misled by Sinn Fein propaganda which, he exclaimed pointing to the government, “you are doing nothing to counteract” *