LORDS AND THRONE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 5

LORDS AND THRONE.

. BUDGET AND VETO. _ ' MINISTERIAL AND LABOTJE SPEECHES. • By Telegraph-Presa Aeiociatlon-CeDyrlghL (Rec April 18, 10.25 p.m.) London, April 18. Writing to the Reform Club of Blackburn, Lancashire (which returned a Liberal candidate, Sir Thos. Barclay, and a Labour candidate, Mr. P. Snowden, in January), Mr. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, says: "Out forces are not as strong as we hoped, but we shall march squarely forward and carry the- ■ Budget and the veto proposals, ' unweakened and unmodified, to the steps of the Throne." . Mr. Keir Hardie, a Labour leader, epeaking at Blackburn, declared that if the movement against the House of Lords meets obscurantist resistance from, the Lords or the Throne, the agitation will assume forms in which the democracy will sweep aside all restraints, and will claim fall enfranchisement at one fell swoop. He refused to be entangled with the Liberal party. A LIBERAL PEER REVOLTS. ~ IN DEFENCE OF THE CEOWNI" (Eeo. April 18, 11.5 pjn.) London, April 18. Lord O'Hagan (one of the few Liberal Peers in the House of Lords) has resigned hia office of Lord-in-Waiting as a protest against. Mr. Asquith's.. dragging the Crown into Parliamentary controversies.

LIBERALS AND IRISH. UNIONIST VOCABULARY HEAVILY DRAWN ON. London, April 17. In a speech at Liverpool, Mr. F. E. Smith, Unionist member for the Walton division, Liverpool, described Mr. Asquith as an underling of Patrick Ford's underling (Mr. Redmond). Mr. A.Bonar Law, Unionist member for Dnlwich, speaking at Birmingham, said Mr. AsquitU was an obedient slave who had licked the hand which had scourged him. ■ .