BUDGET IS LAW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 806, 2 May 1910, Page 7

BUDGET IS LAW.

VETO BILL FOLLOWS TERMS ANNOUNCED. KING'S ASSENT WITHOUT LORDS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 29. The Royal Assent has been given to tho Budget. TWO TIME-LIMITS. ONE MONTH IN THE CASE OF MONEY BILLS. - 'I THREE SESSIONS FOR OTHER . MEASURES. (Rec. May 1, 5 p.m.) London, April 30. The Government' has'issued its Parliament Bill, the measure dealing with the relations of the two' Houses and the veto of the. House of Lords. The preamble of the Bill foreshadows an ultimate Seoond Chamber on a popular basis. The Bill itself provides that within a month of a money Bill being sent up from the House of Commons , to. the House of Lords, the consent of' the Lords may be dispensed with on the King's assont. The. Speaker's certificate declaring that it is a money Bill is to accompany its presentation to the King. 'Bills other than finance Bills shall similarly become law if they are rejected a third .time by the House of Lords after passing the .House of Commons in three successive sessions, not neoessarily in the same Parliament. • 1 . The maximum duration of .Parliament will be five years. • [Tho paragraph dealing with money Bills iB. printed .as cabled, but the word "within"'seems ,to be misleading. The action of the House of Commons in go-, ing over the head 1 of, the House of Lords to the King would apparently take place not within a month of a money Bill being sent up, but after a .month.] • , 1

BY-ELECTION. LIBERAL MAJORITY- SAME AS IN ■ ■ JANUARY. • ( (Rec. May 1, 5 p.m.) / London,. April 30'. The by-election for South Edinburgh, caused by the appointment 'of Mr. Arthur Dewar (Liberal) as a. Judge of the Court of Sessionj Edinburgh, resulted in the' return of Mr. Lyell (Liberal). Mr. Lyell's majority was 2327; Mr. Dewar's majority in January last was 2334.