BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8550, 8 October 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

OPENING THE LIBERAL AUTUMN CAMPAIGN. HOUSE OF LORDS AND GOVERNMENT MEASURES. THE PRIME MINISTER HMVEIGHS. Received October 7, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, October 6. The Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, speaking at Edinburgh at the opening of the Liberal autumn campaign, inveighed against the House of Lords' treatment of Government measures. He said he wished the Lords had the wisdom to pass a self-denying ordinance, and refrain, as the Crown refrained, from exercising the veto. He announced that the Scottish Land and Land Values Bills would be re-submitted, and that after a pro forma discussion it was quite possible,. ,-and highly probable, that the House'.of Lords would be given an opportunity of discussing the Bills and giving effect to the House of Commons'' resolution—that in matters of legislation the will of the people, as expressed through their representatives in the House of Commons, must be supreme. PRESS COMMENT. Received October 7, 11.47 p.m. LONDON, October 7. The Chronicle infers from the tenor of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's speech that a dissolution will not occur until next year unless the two Bills mentioned and the Education Bill, are mangled or destroyed. The statement regarding a BUI embodying the House of Commons' resolution points to a fourth session.