LORDS AND BUDGET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 564, 20 July 1909, Page 5

LORDS AND BUDGET.

COMMONS' RIGHTS. OHURCHILL'B REPLY TO LANSDOWNE. NO AMENDMENT. (By Telcßraph.-Preaa Association.—Copyright.). London, July 18. Mr. Winston Churchill, President of tho Board of Trado, speaking at Edinburgh in .reply..to Lord Lansdowno (Unionist Leader in U>o House of Lords), said: "AVe want the Budget fairly and fully discussed, And deliberately shaped, in the House of Commons.' AVhcn tho Finance Bill loaves the Commons, it ought to leave m its final form. "No .amendment, excision, modifying, or mutilating Will bo agreed to. by us. AVe will'stand' ho mincing, unless Lord Lanfrdowuo and liia landlordly friends eat up somo of thoir own minco." [" Tliero ia inerca>anif support throughout tho oountry (writes the "Observer ") to the view of the powers and dnries of the Houee of Lords whioh has been Bteadily urged in these columns, No Unionist of any importance now suggests that the Peers aro unconditionally bound to accept anything which a Eadical-Socialiet coalition may propose to them in the fonn of a Budget, No one who counts denies that the Peers may interfere. Unices th« Government takes up a far Btrpneer attitude on the Navy it is almost unthinkable that the Budget can bo permitted to paes,"] A COUNSEL OF CAUTION.' REGISTERING OF LAND 'TRANSFERS. London, July-18. With the object of reducing friction with .the Lords, and in view of Lord Lansdowno'e I minimum demands, tho "Westminster Ga'zotto" (Liberal) urges the Government to drop Mr. Dickinson's amendment to tho Finance Bill, inasmuch as the valuation of agricultural laud might give ite opponents a handle to allege that the Constitution' is being strained. [Mr. W. H. Dickinson's amendment-which was accepted by the Chancellor of the Ex-ohcqner-provides that in overy case of land transfer, whether or not duty is due in connection with it, particulars of. such transfer shall bo supplied to the GAverament, thus riv- ■ ing the country an up-to-date land register. Mr. j Balfour protested, on tho ground that the iinance Bui was being converted into a measure for the compulsory registration of titles, nh/J denied that such an amendment was a legitimate way of bringing about such a fundamental change.]