IMPERIAL POLITICS.
LORDS AND COMMONS. SIGNIFICANT SPEECH BY MR ASQUITH.
United Press Association. Copyright (Received Dec. 13, 4.15 p.m.)
LONDON, Dec. 12
Mr. Asquith, speaking at the National Liberal Club, invited the party to treat the Lords’ veto as the dominating issue. He saicl that, nevertheless, ho strenuously declined, except in a great constitutional emergency, to accept dictation by an irresponsible assembly regarding the proper moment to dissolve Parliament. He declared that finance was a potent and flexible instrument, and added, “The next Budget will stand at the very centre of our work, by which, I was going to say, we shall stand or fall, by which we shall be judged in the estimation of the present generation and posterity.” In finance possibly might be found a means of partially solving in some directions what, under existing constitutional * conditions, would be otherwise insoluble problems.
The “Times” refers to the reservations as to emergency in Mr. Asquith’s remarks, and apprehends that his threatened application of the power of finance to social problems may ho such that the Lords would possibly be driven to resist the Budget Bill itself. That would mean the stoppage of supplies and an inevitable dissolution.
MINES EIGHT HOURS BILL.
STRENUOUS OPPOSITION. United Press Association, Copyright LONDON, Dec. 11. Strenuous opposition is developing to tlje Mines Eight Hours Bill in the House of Commons and outside, owing to fears that a reduction of the output will greatly increase the cost of coal to consumers.
Labor members of the House of Commons, nominally on the ground of saving time, will not participate in the debate, and will ignore Mr. Balfour’s searching questions. The Durham and Northumberland miners’ representatives, though previously opposed to the Bill, are now acquiescent, it is supposed, in response to the Miners’ Federation.
(Received Dec. 13, 4.10 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. The report stage of the Mines Bill has been concluded.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2373, 14 December 1908, Page 5
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