BRITISH POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1074, 13 March 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

SCENES IN PARLIAMENT.

MR. CHURCHILL OUTLINES COMING

MEASURES.

THE VETO THE FIRST STEP.

By Tclceraph-Press Association-Copyricht (Rec. March 12, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 11. Mr. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, in a speech at tho National Liberal Club, declared that tho Liberals intended to substituto for a lop-sided, obsolete Second Chamber a more or less evenlycaustitutcd House, whoso balance would bo preserved and corrected from year to year by some effective perennial contact with and relation to public opinion andtho popular will. Meanwhile, tho Veto must go. Otherwise they, the dominant party, would be compelled to plead while a minority was able to judge. "Wo should argue," said Mr. Churchill, "and they would decide." He added that after the Veto had been abolished the refqrm of tho House of Lords would tako its place among -the most important issues of modern politics. In concluding, Mr. Churchill declared that Homo Rule, Disestablishment of tho Church in Wales, tho abolition of plural voting, and the settlement of the land question in England and Scotland would be realised in the lifetime of the present Parliament.

"AN OVERDOSE OF HEREDITARY." THE LIBERAL REMEDY. (Rec. March 12, ,5.5 p.m.) London, March 11. Sir J. A. Simon, Solicitor-General, in speaking at Wakefield, declared tnat the opponents of the proposals for tho reform of the House of Lords were multitudinous, but they all sought to eliminate as a factor in tho Constitution the power of tho Crown to create peers as a moans of overcoming the peers' obstinacy and influence. A drug was sometimes counteracted by the injection of a further quantity of tho samo substance, and" . (ho Liberals would not surrender this method of neutralising tho hereditary, legislators by an overdose of hereditary— at any rate until the relations between tho two Houses were so altered as to raako the Commons effectively predominant. Tho Veto must go first;

AN IRISH-WELSH BARGAIN. HOME RULE AND DISESTABLISHMENT. London, March U. Mr. J. Hugh Edwards, Liberal mefaber for Mid-Glamorgan, in a speech at Pontycymmer, declared that Mr. Redmond, the Nationalist leader, had promised, in return for Welsh support'on Homo Rule, that every Nationalist in the Houso . of Commons would support Welsh Disestablishment, and even the holding of a special autumn session in 1912 to deal with it.

CREATION OF NEW PEERS. HAS MR, ASQUITH GUARANTEES? • London, March 11. Captain Cecil Norton, Liberal member for West Newington, in referring to the Veto' Bill, said nobody was in a position to know what arrangement the Crown had made with the Premier.. His firm conviction was that tho Liberal leader was not a man to delude' his followers or the •country. : Mr. Asquith had obtained from tho C/own. whatever guarantees were necessary. He thought the Crown would be loyal to the Constitution, and equal to dealing ivith the constitutional change demanded by ■ tho people.

■ THE REVENUE BILL. AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING. London, March 11. Members of the Unionist party strongly resent Clause 10 of the Revenue Bill, which was passed after an all-night sitting. It withholds from the local authorities half the receipts from land taxation promised them in 1910. Mr. Hobhouse, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said this was only a temporary arrangement until the relations between the local authorities and the Imperial Exchequer could be readjusted.

NOISY NATIONALISTS, OFFER TO THROW THEM. OUT. London,' March 10. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, ex-Chancellor of tho Exchequer, when speaking during tho Revenue Bill debate, was constantly interrupted by the Irish group. Captain- Craig, Unionist member for Down, offered the Chairman his assistance in throwing out tho'whole of tho Nationalists. This offer was followed by uproar. Mr. John O'Connor, Nationalist member for North Kildare, invited the challenger to commence operations. - The • Nationalists were with difficulty restrained from approaching Captain Craig. ABUSIVE POLITICIANS. MR. CHURCHILL AND LORD HUGH CECIL; London, March-10. In the House of Commons there was a lively all-night debate on the, Revenue Bill, which embodied the postponed parts of tho Budget. Tho Opposition strongly resented the forcing tactics adopted by the Government. Mr. Balfour, Leader of tho Opposition, accused the Government of violating'its pledges to allow .full opportunity for discussion. ' Mr. Winston Churchill, who was in charge of the Bill, frequently moved tho application of the closure. This provoked scenes. Lord Hugh Cecil, Unionist member for Oxford University, remarked that it was unfortunate that Mr. Churchill was in charge of tho House, because lie was constitutionally unaccustomed to 6ubmit to good tasto and good feeling. Uproar followed Lord Cecil's remarks. Mr. Churchill said he was accustomed to tho controversial methods of Lord Cecil, who dealt always in taunts and insults. (More uproar.)