VETO DEBATE.
—«• — AMENDMENT TO MODIFY. NO NEW SEICOND CHAMBER THF POWER OF A SMALL MAJORITY. THE GOVERiNMECNtT'iS POLICY. (Per United Press Association LOXtDON, April 25. In'the) House of Gonmiionsi in the Veto debate Sir P. Magnus moved the exclusion of Bills modifying the Veto Bill. Mi 1 A&quith repliying said he sawno possibility of the immediate! oresxtion, of a new Second Oliamber. Tlie statement was gTteerted witli derisive Unionist clheei-s. He added that if the amendment weVe adopted a temporary, precarious, and insignificant Unionist majority could with the Housa of Lords' do-operation, render the operative part of the Bill nugatory. Mr A. J. B'aJfour 1 retorted!'that such an act would oleai' Mr Asiuiith from the charge of demanding poweir to modify any part of the constitution with the aid 1 of a 1 temporany premrious amd insignificant majority. TlUa amendmient was rejected by 288 to 190. Mr Aisquith in feply td Captain Waring slaid thait the GovernmentV' policy would in nowise to modified.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10351, 26 April 1911, Page 2
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163VETO DEBATE. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10351, 26 April 1911, Page 2
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