LIBERALS AND THE LORDS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 October 1907, Page 5

LIBERALS AND THE LORDS.

THE OVERFLOWING CUP. LORD ROSEBER-Y AND THE PRIME . --• - MINISTER. . ; SCOTTISH LAND BILL. Nx TELEGRAPH—MESS ASSOCIATION—COI'TEISE! London, .October. 23. Sir Henry Campbell-Barinorman, Primf Minister, in tho courso of his speech :U Dunfermline, after stating tliat- tho Hons* of Lords had filled tho cup to overflowing i emphasised' the social reforms clamouring f« solution,' and said : that drunkenness, do ■population, bad' housing, infant- mortality, and 'ignorance—all subjects domandiug • mow" drastic methods of treatment than t-lio'Pnioii ists we're willing to employ—formed the sub ject of Bills which were prevented from bo ( coming Acts. The Education, the LaridiiVal ues (Scotland), and the Scottish Small Hold era Bills ; had boon- rejected, mutilated, Q othorwise defeated. , ROBBERY,' AS. DEFENDER. ! \ (Rcc. Oct. 24, 9.50 p;ip.). '. London, October 24. ■ 1 iord-Rosobery, speaking at- txlasgow, saiil that if, as had been intimated in tho highestS 'quarters, tho Government's Small Band • Holders Bill• (Scotland). would' be reintroduced in an unimproved form 1 , it- could Oniy bo meant to act as a battering rani, because :it could not bo expected that tho Houso of Lords, without reason being shown, would I recant their deliberate opinion on tho- priuciplo of tho Bill. ' : "The. ' question.) really, is this/' said My,' ■' Asquith, in a' speecli ,on August 24, "arc-you going .to'allow'tKo leader of a small minority iii tho House of Commons, repudiated and discredited with unexampled emphasis • at tho ■ polls less than two years ago by the. people of. this country; are you going, to allow him,' by means., of tho House of Lords, (o'regulate tlio temperature, to dilute the strength, to limjt the. range, to arrange, as he sees fit, all - the . stages of' 'postponement' /or mutilation or strangulation of measures which the people, , through. their elected representatives, desire, tjj pass into_law? is the qiiestipn'you have got to answer. Our fathers, in tlieir wisdom,' have already reduced the House.o.f Lords.fropi. the whole sphere of administration 1 and financ,e to,the useful and not undignified functions ol ! consultation and criticism;' wo 'shall.', be only j_, following in their footsteps aad. bettering theft**-' example if we confine the House of' Lords, tc> 1 a. like share in the making, of our taws." .' Lard Eosebe'ry voted for -the . English Land Bill, but against'' the Scottish ono, holding that it introduced to Scotch tenures a new ana objectionable system. Tho Bill "has been made by the Governmen tone of> the "test eases'' . against the House' ofi Lords. . ' i