IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 85, 5 December 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

HOME RULE BILL. )By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December 4. There was a listless debate on clauses 27 and 28. The former was dismissed briefly, and the latter not discussed but guillotined. The House passed Sir_E. Canon’s amendment to clause 27, to secure Judges being appointed by the King. Tne Government mis prepared an amendment to clause 29 to enable the Exchequer Board, in addition to the Lord .Lieutenant and Secretary of State to obtain a Privy Council decision as to whether any Irish legislation was ultra vires. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. London, December 3. ‘The Times’ says that the movement among Liberal churchmen and broad-minded non-conformists against disendowment has resulted in a definite agreement that the endowments, with the exception of the tithe, be left to the Welsh Church. ‘The Times’ believed that the Government would accept an amendment in this direction.

TRADE UNIONISM. London, December 4. The committee on tiie Trade Union Bill refused Sir Rufus Isaacs’ accepted amendment allowing trade unions to pay their Commoners. It was said that the trade unions ought to be allowed to manage their own affairs. The Conservative members siiported the amendment on the ground chat ii would make a reversivle payment to members. THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICY. London, December 4. Mr. Balfour, addressing the City Primrose League, said that the Government’s policy was more harmful to the House of Commons than to the Crown or to the House of Lords. After buying Irish and Welsh votes they now designed a franchise to mitigate the country’s verdict.