BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 9 November 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

_____ —0— PROPOSED JOINT COMMITTEE.

TO DEAL WITH DISAGREEMENTS. Received Last Night, 7.30 o'clock. LONDON, Novembers. The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, intends consulting the Cabinot v in regard to the Unionist reservations concerning a Joint Committee to deal with disagreements between the two Houses of Parliament.

The reservations apply specially to Home Rule:

IF CABINET AGREES

Received Last Nizht, 10.55 o'clock. LONDON, November 8. If Cabinet agrees to the proposed reservations, the Veto Conference will be successful. In the event of their rejection, it will Gtill be open for the Unionists to consider whether, and to what extent, they will be able to yield in detail. DIVERSE VIEWS. Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock. LONDON. November 8. The Daily News deprecates the idea of a compromise. It apprehenjs that the present situation in regard to the Conference points [to a crisis. It recommends that, in the event of a deadlock, an election be held in January. The News adds: "Apparently the Unionist leaders arc willing to limit the veto, except in regard to the so-called constitutional charges." The Standard.states that the prospects of an agreement are now much more favourable. ' SPEECH BY MR ASQUITH. (Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock.) LONDON, November 8.

The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, in a speech at Glasgow, said there was nothing more remarkable in our constitutional progress than the shifting of relations, from time to time, between the municipalities and the State. The practical reconciliation of the supreme dominating influence of the State, with a freo evolution of autonomy, was one of the greatest achievements of statesmanship of the Nineteenth Century. The idea of a great partnership between the State and the municipalities was capable of a wider application in even wider spheres.