THE VETO BILL

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1911, Page 6

THE VETO BILL

ALIENS IN ENGLAND. .(By. Electric Telegraph— Copyright, i LONDON, April 29. T.he House of Commons is engaged in Committee on clause two of the Veto Bill. Mr Asquith said that he intends to pass this clause within a fortnight and send the measure to the House of Lords on May 16th. The bye-election for Haddingtonshire caused by the elevation of Lord Haldane to the House of Lords resulted in the return of Mr. J. D. Hope (a Liberal), who secured 3,652 votes. Mr Blythe (Unionist) secured 3,184. The Telegraph is publishing the views of foreign statesmen on the Veto Bill. Count Witte says that as a Conservative he sympathises with the House of Lords and is truly sorry that they committed the mistake of rejecting the Budget. Unless he was misinformed the upper chamber had managed to burn their fingers in cold water. The Lords had set their face against a -reform, which, however, they were now willing to accept. Sir George Woodman (Chairman of Aliens Board) said that while Mr Churchill's Bill was an improvement he considers that in view of poverty and misery in England, aliens should not he admitted at all. iHe objected towretched aliens doing Avork Englishmen ought to have.