LORDS AND BUDGET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 604, 6 September 1909, Page 7

LORDS AND BUDGET.

POSSIBLE REJECTION. WOULD AROgSE UNKNOWN FORCES." UNIONIST LEADER'S CAUTION. (Uy Telcyraph.-Prcst ABjQelallon.-OoDFrlepU (Rec. September 6, 0.80 a.m.) London, September 5. Tho "Westminster- Gazette" ' (Liberal) admits that there is a growing assumption that tho Hoyso of Lords will reject Aα Budget, but is convinced that the Peers' fctiou will be roluptant, (is it will btpusp forces the precise strength of which cannot at present bo ascertained, 'flip "Gassottp ,, adds: "Tho political lemppratnrp id decidedly changeable, but' Lord. Lapsdawno may b» trusted to recommend what is tho leiist perilous thing in all ' circumstance? from th,o Unionist standpoint."

"NOT QBLi.QEO. TO SWALLOVV." ■ In. his -July speech Lord Lnpsdovrne, who.' leads for the "Ifhiqnisfe in the Lords, stated'thtvt the Jjords would not 1 adopt the view that they;.werppbHgcd to BVftlUw. the BwE D ,t «s iv whole, He .(said;- ~■ /„ ■ , ~■ . -VI think I my venture tp tell cannot tell you what the Rouse of Lords wilj 4P, what the House of Lords will not do, I 50 nptthink yon' will find that when the time copies, tl,e House of Lords is at all likely to proclaim that it has no responsibility for the Bil(, ana. {hat because it is raided .up with the finano'Pl ftffait-'s pf the natipii we ar« obljged to swalloiv it whole and without -winning. . > -.-,■ ".;..■■ 'That would to my mind be not only a-.niis-. taken, but 'an ' unconstitutional positips./ ■.•.!. I could easily supply you.with .anthpntks iroHi;. If Uβ texpfepoks, but I prefer to rely,,upon common sense. It is unthinkable, citlier, in t,no theory or the pr'aotice of a Constitution of any country with two Legislative Chambers, that it should b.B left to tho ahsoluto discretion ,of o(io of ihosfl Chambers 1 to inipow upon the nation tny burden, lwwoyer mpnstrous and intolerr. able, any tajatipp, however jnefjyitnple its w v cidencc, any new gnancial systein, sub--of society; ' . „' . , - ; <' f'l believe that to be especially trup whep wo bsar in : mind,' as wo must, that this Govern-, ment cannot claim to have received on thei occasion of tho last goneral oleotion any kind or sort pfa mandate, from the'country to deal with these vast financial, revolutions. Thcre : , fore we' shell havo to consider with an .open mind no dpubt. tho Bill as it emerges ,frpn>.«aminafipn by; tho House of. CpmipPns, and we shall endeavour to do our dnty by .it, pndeWrred by threats and vapoudngs,". : . • •