BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10011, 6 April 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

MR O'BRIEN SPEAKS ON THE NATIONALISTS. AND OFFEKS ADVICE United Press Association—Jay liiJecwic Telegraph Copyright. Received April 5, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, April 4. Mr William O'Briun (Leader of the Independent Irish Party) states that Mr Redmond and Mr Dillon refused to join hims?lf and Mr Healy in an interview with Mr LloyJGcorge, in consequence of which lieland bad lost a million sterling -innually. He advised the Mi listers to omit Ireland from the Budget, and defy Mr Redmond to ojst them from office upon a pettifogging point of precedence for the Lords' veto.

IR3HND AND BUDGET CONCESSIONS.

MR ASQUITH'S DENIAL. Received April 5, 10 a -n. LONDON, April 4 The Prime Minister, Mr Asquitb, in the House of Common -\ deniei promising the Nationalists any kind of Budget conces ions. THE DEBATE CONTINUED. MR CHURCHILL SHAKILY CRITICISED. WHAT THE COLONIES WOULD THINK. Received April 6, 12.5 a.m. LONDON, April 5, In the House of Commons the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (Unionist) administered a stinging rebuke to Mr Winston Churchill for his ungenerous and unseemly fashion in imputing to the King a polity which the King was unable to deny. There was not a shadow of foundation for Mr Churchill's suggestion that there was an alliance between the Radicals and the Throne. Mr Lyttelton added that in the democratic constitution ! granted to Australia, the rights of a second Chamber were recognised. It was only iaat year when the Government was so conscious of its necessity that it imposed a second Chamber, with the right to reject money Bills, upjn South Africa. Colonel Seely, replying, said that the Government had not imposed, but that South Africa herself had proposed a second Chamber. Had the Government attempted to set up a second Chamber, resembling the j House of Lords, no self-governing colony would have endured it. No colony would give power to a Chamber based on the hereditary principle. If the Commons submitted to the Lords pretensions, he was confident that the self-governing Dominions would think the English people unfit to manage their own affairs.

Mr Gibson Bowles sharply criticised the resolutions. Mr Bonar-Laws made a telling summing up for thu Opposition. Mr Lloyd-George concluded the debate, and declared that it would be better for the Liberals to be out of office f-n- a decade thai* any longer to submit to the Lords mutilating Bills. If the people really wished revolutionary measures the Lords' veto was as useless as the King's veto during the French revolutions. Sir JR. B. Findlay's amendment was rejected and Mr Asqaith's motioD was agreed to by 358 votes to 252.