BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 983, 1 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

REMARKABLE SPEECH BY MR DILLON. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received February 28, 11 p.m. LONDON, February 28. • Several newspapers declare that it is an open secret that there are acute differences of opinion in the Cabinet, especially concerning tactics. There are indications that a p'an now favoured is to split the atI tack on the Lords into two parts. Firstly, to take it by itself, and by means of a resolution on legislative abolition of the Lords' right to reject the Money Bill: then at a later date to combine the limitation of the veto upon general legislation with the reform of the Lords. The consensus of opinion is that to-day will be fateful fcr the Government. It is apparent that the Redmondites discuss Mr Asquith's propopals exclusively from the standpoint of how far these pro mote or indefinitely postpone Home Rule.

Mr Dillon, speaking at Manchester, taunted the Liberal leaders or* their most disastrous timidity and declared that their majority has sufficient to carry any measure arising as a dominant issue before the electorates. He described the words in the King's Speech "in the opinion of my advisers" as unprecedented, inasmuch as it implied that the King did not share his advisers' opinions, and thus the Government are throwing away the whole basic principle of the constitution. The "Times'" Parliamentary correspondent says thatfMr Dillon's speech is construed as a desire on the part of the Nationalists to involve the Crown in a constitutoual struggle, and any such attempt might alienate Liberal sympathy.