BRITISH POLITICS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1910, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

" AX UXPAKALLULKD SITUATION'."

[liY Kr.ECTIirO TEr.KOI{AI'H--COI , VKIOHT.] [i'i:it pkkss association. I LONDON, April M. Air Balfoiir, presiding at the United Chili's luncheon, said the. Parliamentary situation was unparalleled. There had lieen no King's Speech in the .sense of a. speech announcing the legislative policy, which wa.s carefully 'withheld by the House of Commons and was only now blurted out liy -Mr \Yiii.ston~Cliurehill. The , only attempt-at a King's Speech was offered hy Mr Churchill on Tuesday night, when ho sketch;.'.! ;i long series of minor constitutional resolutions, the offspring of a greater oir , which he and his friends would endeavour to carry. • All the talk about social reform was part of the present Government's gross impr.sture. Mr Bnlfoiir incidentally mentioned that In; had not rejected the idea of a referendum. Tie declared the Conservatives fa.voured the introduction <;f an elected element in the Second Chamber, drawn from the praph<, hut it was folly to make a Second Chamher wholly elective, IV,r he did not dis ire to destroy the ii'n-'JisputccH supremacy of the ffouf;:-. of Common' , . (Received This Day, !).;]() a.m.) LONDON, April 11. The debate upon Mr Asquifh's Budget guillotine propesalx is expecte.l to lie ('(included en the L'Olh i 11st. Tlio rceriud n<ading will then take place on the !Mth. and the Bill will be received in cninm'ittee on the 'J(!th. The report will not lie debased, but passed on the '27th. The Opposition complain f lint. amendments have been ruled out without their copni^niice.