THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 August 1907, Page 3

THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION.

THE COMMONS AND THE LORDS. "MOST SERIOUS QUESTION BEFORE THE COUNTRY." SPEECHES BY BRITISH MINISTERS. London, August 26. Mr Astpiiih, speaking at Corsbam Regis, said the most serious quest iyn before the country was whether the people would allow the leader of a small, minority in the House of Commons, acting through the House of Lords, to regulate the temperature and dilute the (trvngth, limit the range and mutilate and strangle the measures the people's elected representatives desired to pass. The Right Hon R. B. Ilald.inc,spakmg at Dunning, declared Sir H. CampbellBannerman's resolution for dealing with the House of Lords was a settled programme intended to be carried, if it took twenty years.

Mr Birrell, speaking at Un til, said the Tery next question to be considered was that of modification of the Constitution, which were essentia! to enable Parliament to secure the wishes of the people within a reasonable tiir \ Another thing which wanted some reform was the procednre of the House of Commons.

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL SPEAKS. * THE FIGHT TO PROCEED. THE SITUATION IN IRELAND. GBAVE RESPONSIBILITY ON THE LORDS.

Received 27th, '6 ajn. London, August 26. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at CVeadle Hulme, declared that the Bills rejected by the Lords would be re-intro-duced, »nd passed with the utmost rapidity. The fight would proceed until the people, in proper time, would be asked to pronounce definitely and decisively in favor of democratic as against class Government. He also warned the Lords of their grave responsibility if they destroyed the Irish Land KB. It was possible that, in the coming winter there might be trouble leading to violence, and if a cautious palliative measure intended to relieve the Peat tension existing in some parts, were rejected, he did not see how the executive Government could be held recpomlble for the consequences that might ensue.