BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9669, 17 December 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

LORDS V. COMMONS.

FRAMING A BUDGET AND IMPOSING TAXES. AN EXPLANATION. United Press Association—Dy .MeOtric Telegraih Copyright. Received December 16, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, December 15. Lord Lindley, formerly Master of the Roils and a Life Peer, in a letter to "The Times," explains the difference between the House of Commons framing a Budget and imposing taxes. Tha act of imposing a tax requires, he says, the assent of the Lords and the King, as well as of tha Commons. There was necessity for the assent of all thr«je, t as a safeguard against the tyranny of one or two. Power to reject a\Finance Bill is conferred by statute. In the present case the House of Lords exercised an undoubted right, because it believed the Finance Bill contained new features corftrary to the nation's interest. If .the Lords bad passed it they would have lost for ever the right of rejecting future Finance Bills, however injurious such Bills might be. Received December 16, 11.35 p.m. LONDON, December 16. Mr John E. Redmond (Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party), speaking at Dublin, said that Hr Asquith's declaration brought the Home Rule question back to the Gladstonian level. Received December 16, 11.35 p.m. LONDON, December 16. Sir E. Grey (Foreign Secretary), speaking at Beswick, said tha Lords action was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Government and House of Commons.