LORDS' VETO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 735, 7 February 1910, Page 5

LORDS' VETO.

WHAT will happen?

DIVIDED COUNSELS.

MENDERS, BENDERS,'AND ENDERS By Telegraph—Preßß Association—Copyright.

(Eec. February C, 6 p.m.) London,- February 5. The newspapers reveal sharp differences of opinion in the ranks of the Liberals concerning: the tactics to bo adopted regarding the House of Lords.

. The "Daily Chropiole" (Liberal), in a two-column leading . article, urges the ■folly of sectional i divisions , and . personal rivalries,, and shows that Mr.. Asquith, on Decembor;2, stated that'the first act of the now Government would be to reimpose , the Budget. The "Chronicle" adds;

"No other legislation, except insurance against . unemployment,: should ■ be attempted until'the House of Lords' veto, has been abolished. -The oreation of hundreds of hereditary peers would be dis-' tasteful'to democrats.

"The strategic danger in of the Liberals submitting -a soheme which is capable of being . .represented as virtual abolition of the House of Lords. Mr. Balfour,, Leader of the . Oppu>j tion,. will then submit a scheme for a -reformed Chamber, and.tho choice of-the doctors' will be doubtful."

.V'.TheTimes" .maintains that if- Mr. Asqmth- contemplated an heroic step, he should have gone. to the King directly the result of the election' was known. Nevertheless, the timo has arrived for a real change .in tho-Second Chamber, and a basis for deliberation exists in the report of Lord Rosebery's' Committee of Peers.

.. The/Xabour Leader," a new paper, says that Labour members : are' : opposed to the reform of the House of Lords, and demand its abolition.. :. • ■

' ■ VETO OB BUDGET FIRST P London, February 4.-> Discussing the .■■ political situation, the Liberal papers, /'Manchester Guardian," "Daily News/' ■ Nottingham "Express," and- Yorkshire ."Observer,"■■ demand that ,the Government should deal with the Lords before, re-introducing the Budget. . . The; "Daily, Chronicle" , (quoted in the foregoing : message) . dissents from this view. IRISH PART OF THE BUDGET. ■ NO. HALF-MEASURES ABOUT MR 1 O'BRIEN. "RE-CONSTRUCTION FROM TOP TO , , BOTTOM.' 1 . CRoc. February 6, 5 p.m.) London, Februaiy B. , Mr. : Wm.. O'Brien, chief of.the : Independent Nationalists., ; (elevon of whom' figure among the Nationalist total of 82), says,, that the Nationalists will require the Irish part of the Budget to be recobstructed from top to bottom.