IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 356, 6 April 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

IRISH PARTY'S ATTITUDE/ WILL SWALLOW ANYTHING. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, April 4. Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., cabled to the New York Times that the Irish arc ready to swallow nearly everything in the Budget in order to keep the Government together, but a section of tne Cabinet is seeking to confuse the issue over the House of Lords and the Budget. They arc equa.iy ready to discredit Mr." Lloyd-George, .Those Budget and personalitv are squallv disliked. Mr. W. O'Brien stales that Mr. Redmond and Mr. Dillon refused to join Mr. Healy and him-elf in an interview with Mr. Lhivd-<icorge, in consequence, of which Ireland lost £1,000,000 per annum. He advised the Government to omit Ireland from the Budget and defy Mr. Redmond to oust them from office upon a. pettifogging point of giving precedence to the question of the veto. THE PREMIER'S DENIAL. London, April 4. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Premier denied having promised the Nationalist any kind of concession in the' Budget. REFORM OF THE LORDS. A REBUKE TO CHURCHILL. j PREMIER'S MOTION AGREED TO. Received' April 6, 0.10 a.m. London. April 5. In the House of Commons Mr. Lyttelton administered a, stinging rebuke to ■Mr. Winston Churchill for the "ungenerous and unseemly fashion" in which he imputed to the King sympathy with the Radical policy. There was not a shadow of foundation for Mr. Churchill's suggestion that an alliance existed between the Radicals and the Throne. He added that in the democratic constitution granted to South Africa the rights of a second Chamber had been recognised only last year, <when the Government was so conscious of its necessity that it gave the Second Chamber the right to refect money Bills. Colonel Seely. replying, said that South Africa herself proposed tne Second Chamber. Had the Government attempted to set up a Second Chamber resembling the Lords, no self-governing colony would endure it. No colony would give power to a Chamber based on the hereditary principle. If the Commons submitted to the Lords' pretensions the self-governing dominions would • think English people unfit to ■ manage their own affairs. ' '

Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, concluded the debate, and declared that it would be better that the Liberals should be out of office for a decade rather than longer to submit to the Lords mutilating Bills. If the people really wished for revolutionary measures the Lords' veto was as useless as the King's veto during the French Revolution.

Mr. A. Finlay's (member for Lanark) amendment was rejected. Mr. Asquith's motion was agreed to by 35S to 252.