BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 246, 23 November 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS.

THE CHARGE OF " TACKING." REBUTTED BY A PEER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Lonuon, November 21. Arguing that the Budget taxes were purely financial, and that the method of valuation was strictly subservient - U and necessury for their collection, Laid | Courtney of Penwick, in a letter to Y!m Times, rebuts the charge of " tacking." "TWIN THUNDER PUMPERS." THE CRUCIAL ISSUE. Received 22, 11.5 p.m. London, November 22. Mr. Gilbert Parker, speaking at Yendou, described Mr. Lloyd-George and Mr Winston Churchill as "twin thund-.'r pumpers.'' The people would not make the question of the Lords the crucial i»sue at the elections. The straighto-it issue would be Tariff Reform against Socialism.

A THING TO AVOID. CONFLICT BETWEEN I.ABOR AKP LIBERALS. SECOND BALLOTS REQUIRED. Received 22, 0.20 p.m. • London, November 22. Mr, Arthur Henderson, M.£, splitting at Bishop-Auckland, said one thing be desired to avoid was a conflict, between the Liberal and Labor partle*. Another thing was to know how to do it. Three-cornered contests were the outcome of democratic power and were inevitable, especially at a transition period. The Labor Party had 2,000,000 members paying into the Parliamentary Fund for securing direct representation. He did not anticipate a light upon the present iasue. Tho Xation.il Lnhor Executive must decide upon .Mr. Joseph Pease's letter, but he did not think it offered any baeia of agreement, since it required Labor to rest content with its present strength during the next Parliament. Mr. Henderson approved of the auggestion that the Government should carry a Bill before dissolution, providing a second ballot, and all clectiivif be he'd mi the same day.