Dublin, Dec. 12.
A motion to re-introduce in. the JSenate a But for the abolition of the JSenate and maintenance of a single Jehamber of Parliament, which was submitted in the Dail to-day by Mr. Eamon de Valera, President of the irish Free State, was carried by 76 votes to 57.
The Bill was passed by the Dail Jon May 28, 1994, but later rejected by the Senate, and was held up under the Constitution for the past elghteen months.
Mr. de Valera, in concluding day's debate in the Dail on the measure, declared that temporarily, any-thow, there would be a single-cham-jeer" Legislature. "Meanwhile, he added, they would try to see' what could be done. He was perfectly certain that their experience would Joe such that they would not be in any great anxiety to change the new Mr. de Valera also announced that the Government intended to ask for Jcommittee procedure to sce whether It was possible to odd to the present stages of bills in the Dail, further stage after the report stage, which would enable bills to be reviewed and the Minister in charge (o make any ismail amendments necessary. It was ithe opinion of the Government, jaded, that such a procedure would jonable the Dail to do. practically everything the Senate did—Reuter,
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