IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 358, 8 April 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE GUILLOTINE RESOLUTIONS.

CARRIED BY A BIG MAJORITY

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London, April 6. Mr. Asquith moved ilie giuiiotme resolutions. j.'he lioube ot Lords, he said) had recently discussed similar resolutions in lour and a-uaii nay.,, including the abolition of the hereditary principle. The Government proposed an eight and a-half days limit. Moreover, there "Would be opportunities tor detailed discussions when the Bill was introduced. This was done without unnecessary delay. A long and lively debate ensued, and fhe resolution was eventually carried by 217 to 133.

Mr. Asquith so frequently replied "Wait and see" to questions concerning the Budget that the Opposition interjected the phrase to annoy the Premier almost every time he spoke. Mr. Bonar Law described the Government as the ".Wait and See" Government.

The Liberals are starting an Anti.Veto League, which is a lineal descendant of the Budget League.

PROTECTION v. FREETRADE.

FREETRADE AMENDMENT CARRIED,

Received April 9, 12.15 a.m. London, April 8. In the Commons Mr Ha Ida ne v moved the first veto resolution. He agreed that it was unfortunate to have to introduce written provisions into an unwritten constitution, but wiien a breach of such magnitude was made ■without the Lords'' assurance that it • would not be repeated, the Commons would be unworthy of their traditions if they failed to deal with the situation. If the Liberals failed to ■ establish a real revising second chamber the Cofr servatives, under the guise of reform, would strengthen the hereditary principle. Mr Austen Chamberlain replied tnat the Liberals' reform of the Lords was a sham, and only referred to m order to give Sir Edward Grey and Mr Haldane a shadow of an excuse for retain-1 ing office. I Mr Hamilton Benn gave notice of mo-! tion that fiscal reform was necessary, owing to foreign tariffs hindering British, trade and aggravating unempioy- : ment. I

Mr A. Storey seconded, and declared that all .petty constitutional squabbles ■were worthless compared with the failing British manufactures and the miseries of chronic unemployment. He predicted that a change would come through a combination of tariff reformers and British trades unions.

Sir J. Kemp moved, and Mr J. A. Simon seconded, a freetrade amendment, which was carried by 235 to 202. Nationalists abstained from voting