NASSES V. THE CLASSES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8115, 21 May 1906, Page 3

NASSES V. THE CLASSES.

LORDS AND LABOR LEGISlItion"

THE FIHSt BRUSH.

4 " A RE&RE'rtABtE INCIDENT.

London, May 18.

Thfl House of Lords arrived at a decision on the Alters, and. Labour Bills While the House of Commons was voting moiiey which the House of Lords expends.- Indignant Labourites, by way of protest, hare moved a reduction of the v6te, and arepreposing to cancel the cost that had opt been dealt with under the rote. So many of the new members supported the amendment that a defeat of the Government, might conceivably have been engineered.

. Mr Lows Harconrt (First Commissioner of Works) eventually secured a withdrawal of the amendment.

Mr Keir Hardie/ on the motion of fmendment, blamed the Government fot not accepting .Lord Lansdowne's offer of an Aliens Bill. He asked how long the "Government would coutenance the existence of the Hdnsc of Lords. The incident raised the whole

ijnestion' of whether' the democracy w*s a reality or a iham. MrG. Weiteley, in the absence of

Jjus Liberal ..leaders, referred to the rejection of the Bill as a regret table incident, but it was an unofficial mem-

' 'TxjKC&ll. and: there'was no-reason why 3. ~tl»# Goyernmebt should assume charge > \ .. ' V .' j '**'' 'The " Times, commenting/ says ; the wprlceM haw more to fear from: the steady infliiT of aliens under ordinary circumstances than .temporary impor-

. .tation in emergency. I&e Government ' ~ has deliberately- Weakened the operation of the Aliens Act.

THE FIGHT FOB POPULAR EIGHTS.

OPENING SHOT IN THE BATTLE

Received 20,-4,56 p.m. . London, May 19.

The states that the Lords' rtjection of tlie Aliens Bill is the i opening: shot in the fierce :qnd longi -»indtesfettle for popular rights. ,