BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1754, 21 May 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

ENRAGED LABORITES. By Electric - Telegraph—Per Press 'Association—Copyright. London, May 18. The House of Lords arrived at a decision regarding the Aliens and Labor Bills while the House of Commons was votiDg mouey which the House of Lords expends. Indignant Laborites, by way of protest, moved a reduction of the voto. proposing to cancel the parts that had been dealt with under the vote. So many new mainbars supported the amendment that the defeat of the Government might conceivably have been engineered. Mr Haroourt eventually secured a withdrawal of the amendment.

Mr Keir Hatdie, in moving the amend ment to the Estimates refusing supplies to the Housa of Lords, blsmed tho Government for not aooepting Lord Lans,downe,’B offer on the Alien Bill. He aiked how long the Government intended to po’nbte-, nanoe the existing House of Lords.k-The inoident raised tho whole question whether the democracy was a reality or a show. Mr G. Whitelay, in the abeenoe/of the Liberal leaders, referred to the rejection of the Bill as a regret l able incident, but it was an unofficial member’s Bill. There was no reason why the Government should assume obarge. The Times, commenting on the inoident, says the workers have more to fear from a steady influx of aliens in ordinary circurn stances than temporary importations in emergency. The Government deliberately weakened the operation of the Aliens Act.

In the House of Commons Sir Edward Grey informed Mr Henniker Heaton that the draft convention prepared by the ADglo-French Commission wbb intended to make an equitable settlement between British and Frenph interests in the New Hebrides. The Government were awaiting the obseryations of Australia and New Zealand on the proposal. The Commonwealth bad mentioned more than onoe the effect the tariff would have on its interests in the New Hebrides.