Dublin, July 18. have gone out of my way to meet the British, and I have done everything except surrender " the rights of the Irish people, I am not going any further.
This declaration wes made Mr. Eamonn de Valera, President, of the Irish Free State, in a Senate debate on the Emergency Duties Bill, to-day.
Mr. de Valera seid that he desired to avoid suffering in Great Britain as well as in Ireland, but he declined to continue paying to Great Britain the enormous tribute of $5,000,000 annually. He agreed that the only way out was arbitration, but "let us have mo restrietions over the tribunal, The principle laid down by the British government was complete misrepresentation of the whole intention of the Imperial Conference. They (the Arish people) were driven to seek alternative markets but the people of the Free State, who had been hungry, would be hungry no longer, for there would be more food in the country and it would be the government's busi ness to see that' hungry mouths were fed.
The Emergency Imposition Duties Bill, which is designed to abolish Imperial preference and establish a tariff wall against certain imports into the Irish Free State from Great Britain, isa sure of self defence and not of taliation and aggression, accord. ing to the Minister of Finance, Mr. Sean MeEntee, The Dail passed a financial motion on July 11 giving assent the Bill.
The bill passed a second reading in the Senate to-day without a London, July 19.
That the British coal industry will be the first to be hit is practic ally "certain to result from the Emergency Duties Bill now being rushed through the Irish Free State parliament as a reprisal measure to the Eritish taxation on Trish goods, The Irish Free State buys annum: ly £2,000,000 worth of English and Scottish coal, and it now appears likely" that' the whole of this trade will be lost. German importers arrived in Dublin with samples of coal on which favourable reports have already been made, Hopes are entertained that reciprecal contracts will be made for the exchange of Irish produce for German coal. Senator Milroy, who years ago escaped with President de Valera from the Lincoln ga snuously opposed the Emergency' Duties Bill in the Senate this afternoon, He accused Mr." de Valera of wanting to get back to the conditions of 1921," and. have another round) with ' England ter.
Dublin, July 21.
The Senate considered the Oath 'Bill again last night and upheld all the amendments which the Dail had rejected. 'Thus the Bill will be Suspended for' 18 months when it wil automatically Become: law.
July 2
An appeal to all patriotic Irishmen to use every effort to prevent disastrous economic. rar. with Britain "into which the Irish people jate being aragzed" has been made by the panty led by Bir. Cosgrave, former President of the Irish Free This "party represents 400,000 Irish electors, according to the retus of the' Inst general lection which placed Mr. de Valera in power.
The appeal says the first casus ties in stich a senseless economic war will be the poorest people in the community but it will ultimately produce calamitous " consequences from which no class oxqnection of the people will be able to escape. urges direct negotiations between the two Governments in order to secure speedy peace, Some tart remarks were passed in the Dail to-day when members were recalled to deal with the Senate's recommendations regarding the new Emergency Duties Bill.
The Emergency Duties Bill has become law by being adopted by the Dail after it had rejected the Senate's "amendatory recommend: tions. One recommendation was that the proposed stamp duty should bbe deleted from the bill, This clause empowers the Executive Council to impose stamp duties. of unspecified amounts on documents.
Imperial preference as between Ireland and Britain is abolished by the new bill: becoming. law, -which
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