VETO CONFERENCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 847, 20 June 1910, Page 5

VETO CONFERENCE.

TO BE SECRET. PARTY DELEGATES APPOINTED. NO PRELIMINARY CONDITIONS By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrlghl London, June 17. It is officially stated that tho Leaders of tho Government and Opposition met to-day, and agreed that tho conference regarding the Constitutional crisis' shall be secret, and untrammelled by any limitation or condition. OUTLOOK HOPEFUL, FOUR REPRESENTATIVES OF EACH SIDE. NO LAWYER: NO CHAIRMAN, (Rec. June ID, 5 p.m.) London, June'lß. The following Government and Opposition representatives have been appointed j for the conference :— Government.—Right Hon. H. H. Asquith (Prime Minister), the Earl of , Crewe (Secretary of State for the Colonies)/ Right Hon. D. Lloyd-GeoTge (Chancellor of tho Exchequer); and the Right Hon. A. Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland). Opposition.—Right Hon. A. J. Balfour (Leader of the Opposition), Lord Lansdowne (Leader of the Opposition in the Houso of Lords), Earl Cawdor (formerly First Lord of the Admiralty in the Balfour Administration), and the Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain. It is hoped that the. appointment of Mr. Birrell will be reassuring to the Nationalists, and that of Earl Cawdor to the Conservatives. The conference is expected to last three weeks. It is noted that no lawyer has been appointed, and it is stated that there will be no chairman. The London "Times" says that as no limitation of reference and no condif. tiqns have been laid down, it looks hopefully for a working compromise. Several Radicals have tabled .questions to pin Mr. Asquith to little or no con-, cession.