BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 180, 3 September 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE LICENSING BILL CHEAT OPPOSITION. "A POLITICAL BARGAIN." , THE GOVERN MENT DENOUNCED. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrigh. ' Received 2, 10.45 p.m. London, September 2 Mr. Lloyd-George's proposed rcst'i;tions in connection with the gvoci"*' li>ciisei< in Scotland mid Ireland is exciting great opposition. Many communlrations itrc reaching private members. [Mr. Lloyd-Gcorgc proposes that the present iniuimimi la quart bottle) in England and Wales shall remain. In Scotland and Ireland—where there are nt present no restrictions—the minimum sh-ill lie oiu'-'inrth of a r c ir.'.rt.] Si-eakiiig during the committee st.lge .if tit" Budget. Mr". •'.-'•„ T~ ' vond nn,.-,; to excliK'n'Mi-land from tl-.c cperatiun (if the new licenses. Mr. Asquitli. in -i conciliatory reply, I f.-iid th-.it wliU" AKeiilance of such n ■wrwiijir nn iinlmcnt was out of the ' rio«'.i"!i. In- was j '-(-pared to go some | way towards iiiee'/tr.' Mr. Redmond's views. Tile Government would reduce the | minimum amount of the license duty I nii'-nliii' in i"spi'it of publichousos in nrens with n given population in lie- ; land, -,>» ee—pared with publiehouoes in areas of the same population in Engli«(l anil Siothnfl. He would further I propose that the BV.stem of valuation in j Ireland would not be disturbed, lie | nromised to consider some concession f j Hi" small brewers.

Mr. Clancy thanked Mr. Asquith, hut intimated thnt Nationalists would reserve their judgment 'until the concession-; •tool; the form of amendments. Mr. Balfour, in a spirited eriticisn said lie wns unable to understand win the small pinblican brewer in Ireland sbould be trpated <Tifferentlv to his brethren in England and Scotland. He suggested, amid Unionist cheers, that there had been n political "bargn n, He added: "After all , you may cam these bargains too far. You may sacrifice too much." He characterised Uiw e-s an old bargain! and said it was scon dalous that the Gnvernracn! should hi t kr.nl it. He contend»d that the en:nmittec had been monstrously used. LORD ROSEBERY AND THE BUDGET. ' London, September 1. Lord RosAcrv, vlcldinir to a widesnread, appeal, sneaks 'against the Budget at Glasgow on September 10.