The Hague, Feb. 4.
A Bill shortly will be introduced in the States-General providing for a grant of a minimum of 1,000,000 florins, spread over period of four years, from 1925 to 1928, in four equal' instalments, for expenses connexion with the Olympic Games which are to be held in Amsterdam in 1928—Reut Tote Irish Froe State Liquor Bill was amended in the Senate in favour lof the complete closing of publiehouses on St. Patrick's Day and in favour of sicuctural alterations in public-houses so as to prevent drink from being cold on the same premises as groceries and other commoditica. These amendments had previously been rejected by the Lower House but the Senate insisted upon their: retention. As a result the Liquor Bill will be "held up" for 270 days, after which time the Bill will pass automatically into law in the form in which it originally left the Dail for the Senate. The Free Stste Constitution, however, provides that if 75,00gignatures of electors can be obtained for a petition a referendum of the whole electorate must be taken, and the pioneers, a Roman. Catholic temperance society, declare that they will set the necessary machinery in motion without delay.
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