The Budget.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4498, 2 December 1909, Page 2

The Budget.

London, November 30. During bis speech on the Budget Viscount Morley argued in detail there was nothing revolutionary in the Budget. Lord Landsdownes amendment was the first step on the tremendous road leading straightway to a constitutional revision. There was no such battle ground for the fiercest passions, and added that if behind the amendment was a new fiscal policy,*he did not envy the Indian Government dealing with its claim of the Indians to have their own in tariff reform. _ Earls Cawdor and Crewe will finishitbu^

debate to-day. - Lord Morley, speaking at Denham, commented upon the conspicious absence of Lieut. Aldwvn (formerly Sir Michael Hicks Beach) from the debate. The unionist newspapers, though absolutely dissenting, from his conclusions, admit the skill and vigour of Lord Morley’s first speech iu the House of Lords outside his own department. The Times criticises his ideal of ao autocrat in the Commons lasting for seven year’s uninterruptedly. The Standard says Lord Morley ignored the fact that the Budget was a sheaf of measures.