AFTER THE BATTLE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1004, 20 December 1910, Page 5

AFTER THE BATTLE

VARIOUS VIEWS. LABOUR PARTY WILL FIGHT THE REFERENDUM. • MR. O'BRIEN BITTER. Br Tele'evaDli--Press Association— dooyriEht. • (Rec. December* 19, li p.m.) London, December 19. Mr. ■ Kiimsay MacDohald, Labour M.P. for Leicester, speaking at Leicester,;said lie thought the. proposal was unlikely, But. if. Mr; Asaiiith, or any Government, should'be induced by any high authorities to accept as a bargain , that certain measures should be referred to a referendum in retiirn for the Lords siirrendertng the veto, the Labour patty would light them tooth; and nail.'. . i' ; • * . . ■ The referendum, was . ahti'-deuiocratic. It was? impossible . to submit to a referendum ail the details of a-given nieasure.

LABOUR PARTY DISAPPOINTED. " : THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT: (Rec. December 19, 9.15 p.m.) London,' December 19. ■ .ThevLabqur pai'ty has been: disappointed' by. learning that -the Government in- : tends'postponing legislation reversing the Osborne judgment'.'uiltil 1912. ; _ ■ The party,intends'to.'procecd ■with its "own Bill atHhe'eairliest opportunity. If the Bill isread' a secphd timfe the party i will insist upon being given facilities to carry it. through', tlireatoning in tho event of; a' refusal .to. Withhold suppSrt on" the Budget:

DENBIGH' PROTESTS. ... ; ME. LLOYD-GEORGE'S ATTACK. . London,> December 18. The Hon.. W. OrnisKy-Gore (Unionist) has been .re-elfccted. for Denbigh. ' The; election is), regarded as a protest against Mr; Lloyd-George's speech in Denbigh, in whiph' he said thai it was bcter ii mail's right arm was paralysed • than that he should'vote for I 'Ormsby-Gore. . MR. O'BRIEN.VIOLENT. SHAMELESS' COKKUPTION. ALLEGED. (Kec. -December 20, 1,5 a.m.) • London,- December 18. Mr. W.' O'firion, Leader of tho Independent ; Nationalists, .in' speaking '!'at Westport, ..said'tho' defeat of , his party was dueto the'.iriost incr'ediblo ignorance and tho most : shameless corruption.'. He demanded a - Parliamentary inquiry, which ie|declared tfould reveal the whole history of tho corrupt relations with Dub j lin Castle,'"and the wholestory of . Mr.. Dillon's relations with the Castle.. PLURAL VOTING. ■ ABOLITION PROPOSED. . ■ ■ London, December 18. The.Master of Elibank,' Secretary of the Treasury, declares, on ( the authority of Mr. Asquith, that . the . Government proposes to bring in a .Bill . abolishing plural voting. ' , . ... BOTH PARTIES.'DISAPPOINTED. "SPECTATOR'S" VIEW. , London, December 18... ,The-%''S^tatpr," ; .T«Ti4wjng : the political situation, says both : parties " are' disappointed'at. the results of the elections, though each holds an important card. The pajier adds that it is desirable to settle the Parliament; Bili by agreement by means of talks, and Hot by a formal conference.