NEW PEERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 785, 7 April 1910, Page 5

NEW PEERS.

LATEST LIBERAL IDEA. THE 1832 PRECEDENT. KING TO GIVE TO SWAMP THE LORDS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopjrisht (Eec. April G, 10.45 p.m.) London, April 6. The "Daily News" (Liberal) protests against "the senseless talk about an 'inevitable dissolution.' The. probability is that the King will , do pretty well what King William IV did in 1832. Just as tlie National common-sense killed tho Dukes' outcry against the Budget, so it is likely to support a . settlement of tlie House of Lords' veto by a constitutional course! I'ho electors do not want another consultation. They have given their orders, and :want to; have them carried out." .

[On May 7> 1832, when the Eeform Bill was in the House of Lords, a hostile amendment—"that the question of enfranchisement should precede that of disfranchisement^'—was carried by 35 votes. On May 9 tho Ministry, resigned, and great public excitement ensued. The Ministers wero induced to resume office on King William IY granting them full power to secure majorities by the creation of new Peers. On May 30, in the Lords, the Bill was carried 'through Committee, and was read a third time, by a majority of 84, on June 4. It received the Royal assent on June 7, 1832.]

The "Morning Leader" declares that Mr. Lyttelton's speech shows that the obvious policy of the Opposition is to embroil the Government with th© Crown. The country now sees that the Opposition is frantically beating up an agitation of sham loyalty on behalf of the King.

[In the debate oh the veto resolutions, Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, formerly Unionist Colonial Secretary, administered a stinging rebuke to the Homo Secretary, Mr. Churchill, for his ungenerous and . unseemly fashion of imputing to the King a policy that the King was unable .to deny. There was not a shadow of foundation for Mr. Churchill's suggestion of an alliance between the Radicals and the Throne.] GUILLOTINE CARRIED. A- "WAIT AND SEE" GOVERNMENT. (Rec. April 7, 1,10 a.m.) ; ' London, April 6. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister,\Mr.. Asiuith, moved the resolution (previously outlined) for applying tho guillotine to the . debate in Committee on the Government's veto resolutions.

Mr. Asquith pointed out ~ that tho House of Lords recently discussed similar resolutions (moved by Lord Rosebery, and agreed to by tho Lords) in days; and those resolutions included the abolition of the . hereditary principle. For the discussion on, the Government's resolutions, tho Government proposed to allow 8i days,. Moreover, opportunities for detailed discussion would be allowed when the Bill was introduced. This would be done without unnecessary delay.

After a long and' lively debate, the resolution applying the guillotine was carried, the voting being as under: For the resolution 217 Against the resolution .........' 133 ~ Government majority ..I 84' Mr. Asquith so frequently replied HVait and see" to questions concerning the :Budget .that tho. Opposition interjected. the phrase, to annoy tho Prime Minister, almost'every, time ho 6poko. Mr. .A. Bonar Law (Unionist member for Dulwich) described the Government as a "wait and see" Government. ! TARIFF REFORM. " ' GOVERNMENT MAT SET UP A ROYAL COMMISSION. London, April 5. The "Daily Telegraph" (Unionist) announces thai the Government is considering the question of the appointment of a Royal Commission on Tariff Reform. If set up, the personnel of the commission, it is said, will be such as. to commend it to the Unionists. Tho commissioners will be required to report witliin a year.