BRITISH POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 December 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

i " MR. HALDANE UNWELL. A SPEECH BY MR. LLOYD-GEORGE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Reo. December 27, 10.5 p.m.) : London, December 27. Tho Secretary :for War, :Mr. R.B. Hal-1 danc,, is suffering from inflammation of-I r thoioycs, andis unable to 'conduct .his | election ..campaign for tho Haddingtonshire seat (which ho has held since 1885, his.loo6'majority being 1180).; .The Prime ■ Mr,; Ascjuith,: and the Secretary ' forS'Foreign'.' Affairsj.;' Sir - Edward : Grey,' are,.assisting Mr. .Haidane.v. .. , : . King Edward will hold the Dissolution Council on January 10. ( ' t , i . ARE THE LORDS. IN A TRAP? J! A KEEN CRITIC. . London, December 20. :^'TJie;iGhanceilor;'bf..'the} 'Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-Gcorge, . speaking .at Llnneily, Wales, said: :: r. "Tho Lords are in a trap; and. - .! i , when . I recall . the contemptuous". things:, thoy said on .'Welsh ques-tions/.1-am:glad.to think;that' a . ,■ i -Welshman set that trap. We have .v v. caught the, largo rats at. ■ Mr. Lloyd-George declared: that .Mr. Brodrick (now Viscount. Midlcton) nlado such :,a'. mess ;■when ;^ 'he Jwa'siat'ithc. War: Ofhce. that tho Tory Government could stand him. no longer, .and sent him to tho India Office to help • Lord Curzon (then Vicetoy) to muddle the affairs of the Indian Empire. • "Each" added 'Mr; Lloyd-Goorgc, "has just enough, intclligonco.to know that .the other is a.mud-;dlcr,'-but neither .' has -quito .enough.: to know how to (,o better." i ; : ■ Unionist . newspapers ■' contrast 'Mr. Lloyd-Goorge's ' language . with ,Viscount .Morle/s splendid eulogy of Lord. Curzon; on Tebruary 23. UNIONIST REFORM OF THE LORDS. OVERSEA PEERS. ' IS IT THE HAND OP ROSEBERY? London, December 2G •t. -Thi "Daily Telegraph" (which proposes a scheme of of the House i.of Lords wliioh it suggests: would:bo ncceptable tp ; ;tli^. r :lJnl6nis£'-leaders : I Houses) suggests that, ; in < addition to 'tho I 150 Peers, to vbe ■.elected:,by their fellow t Pcers, 100 non-hcffalitary seats should he; i distributed amond representatives: of tho | overseas-. dominions, -, to bo elected by i plebiscites or. votes, of the local Legislatures,:: as ;tho dominions tmay decide; I Chambers tof.. Commerco, and learned societies to inominato... others; Catholics,- [ Nonconformists,: and Jews to occupy, somo of tho present Episcopal seats. • '. -vThe general is that: Lord Rosebcry . inspired : ; tho. ■ "Telegraph" 'scheinef v : yJ;'*4 'a 'i 'TARIFF-REFORM AND THE NAVY. | 1 CONTROL Oi? STEEL TRADE- | ' , London, December 20, | -Mr,. A. ■ Bonar. Law: (a lsading Unionist | tanff reformer, and . formerly avGlasgow | iron [merchant), , speaking'.at Sundirland, said: "If .you return a '.Unionist-Govern-.. JmentiHitsSfirsfc' : actv\will'f'.p^.j.tq^'alter f'.thb/ - |iral;:;tbi; : remecly:> thH' jeril^'o^^utfem|iloy^ !B^iphiwising^tMe^^^bhnection;V\be^een' l tariff . reform, and . aational- idefence, : iho added:—"lf Bntain . loses control- of 'the and steel , trades, she will .inevitably ■ lose the power to compota 'for: shipbuild{ihgisin:, disappearing:at: tho!- present time." : . GLADSTONE CENTENARY POSTERS. London, December 26. i:■: Tho i "Daily. News" readers,, have sub-scribDd>-;i63000 JpujWase/.of ':.elec-: , j tion.; posters and: literature: oti : the occasion of Mr. W. E. , Gladstone's centen- | nry. .