THE LORDS' VETO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 663, 13 November 1909, Page 5

THE LORDS' VETO.

Statements by peers. TARIFF REFORM VERSUS BUDGET.!;' ': :;:'-EEJECTION rAVOUEED:' ; r..■?-■:,] (By TeleEraph.-Presß Association.—Copyright.). ~'■■■•■ . . London, November 12. The Duke of .Argyll, speaking at a Conservativo Conference.: at ■ Dundee, said that if iho ]louse of, Lords rejected tho Budget, with a strong protest against its provisions .and a declaration that the Lords wero;not responsible for it, tho issue would bo broad and straight between tariff reform . and tho Budget! ; The general result of tariff, reform, according to tho experience of all lands, would be'the keeping up and steadying of wages, .and the prevention of oscillation in the demand -for labour. Lord Ji.vcbury, interviewed,- said ho personally thought it advisable for tho Lords to amend instead of to reject the because it contained many old taxes which they had no desire to disturb; but the.effects of the Budget would bo so disastrous .that, as Lord Lansdowne (Unionist Leader in the Lords) proposed to meet itiby a direct negative, W would be prepared to support its rejection. .'!".!■ . : CANADIAN TRIBUTE TO BUDGET. '-■: .:V-''(Eec. November 12, 10.35.p.m.) . ■■'"■" ■'•'.' r ' Ottawa, November 12. Two Labour members of the British' House of Commons, Messrs. J. E. Clynes and A.'H. Gill, gave addresses at the Convention of tho American , Federation of Labour sitting at Toronto, and conveyed tho greetings of British trade unions. . ' .: < ■ . The Convention unanimously, and warmly congratulated the Chancellor of the Exchequer, •Mr. Lloyd-George, on his Budget, as being :n----tondeil to. secure. the. welfare and interests of tho whole .people. . . ; ' .; : ■. ■ '.'