IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 152, 14 November 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE, GOVERNMENT DEFEAT. A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London,, November 12. Mr. Asquith has given notice for tomorrow to rescind Sir F. G. Banbury's amendment. Mr. Redmond has issued a statement that while not disguising the danger respecting the Banbury incident, he explains that the absence of many Liberals and Nationalists was due to a false sense of security created by the recent large majorities. MR. O'BRIEN SPEAKS. ATTITUDE OF NATIONALISTS. London, November 12. Mr. William O'Brien said that the Government brought the trouble on themselves. Instead of admitting, with the Royal Commission of 1806, and the Primrose Committee experts, that Ireland was grossly overtaxed, the Government was contending that Ireland owed England two millions per year. The Unionists seized the contention, and raised the alarm. Mr. O'Brien also stated: "We offer to accept any temporary arrangement as an experiment, to be revisable at the end of five years." PROGRAMME FOR THE HOUSE. Received 13, 9.30 p.m. London, November 13. The Government will allow two days' discussion of the Prime Minister's motion to rescind Sir F. Banbury's resolution. Friday will be reserved for the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. Hence the discus- : siori on the closure resolution in regard to the Home Rule Bill has been postponed till Monday. CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL Received 13, 10.40 p.m. London, November 13. In the House of Commons the Criminal Law Amendment Bill was read a third time. A number of Liberals protested that the flogging the Bill provides for should not be inflicted on exploiters of women for a first offence. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. PICTURESQUE CRITICISM. Received 14, 12.35 a.m. London, November 13. The Times' Parliamentary correspondent says that the Government is creating a precedent in the rehabilitation of the Bill. The Unionists will take the most serious view of such a breach of Parliamentary practice. Numerous meetings of protest were held last night. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, speaking at , Lambeth, compared the Government party to an overladen and overdriven horse slipping and breaking its knees. The party was beaten on Monday because it was tired of being dragged through the lobbies at stated times to chop off its opponents' heads. Earl Selbourne, speaking at Walworth, said' that the Unionists on Monday night hit the Government straight ly and squarely between the eyes. There was a time when the Government would have resigned after such a defeat, because it was aware that the Lords could force an appeal to the electors. Now, how--ever, having secured themselves against the Lords and against the electors, and gagged and muzzled their opponents in the House of Commons, and paid £4OO a year to the Commoners, the Government was going to ignore an adverse vote.