THE VETO BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10279, 6 July 1911, Page 5

THE VETO BILL.

AMENDMENT TO CLAUSE 11. MOVED BY LORD LANSDOWNE. (Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.) LONDON, July 5. Lord Lansdowne, in the house of Lords, moved his amendment to Clause 11. of the Veto Bill, exempting from the operation of the Bill any Bills affecting the existence of the Crown, +he Protestant Succession, Home Rule for Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, and anything which a joint committee of the two Houses regards as an issue of great ! gravity, upon which the judgment of the country has been. insufficiently expressed. \ In moving the amendment, Lord Lansdowne said that under the clause as it stood, neither the Crown nor Constitution, the union of Britain , and Ireland,the Church, nor political j liberties were safe.. The Lords fully admited that some readjustment of the Houses was essential. They.were willing to meet the government in a reasonable spirit, and challenged the Government to fulfil their pledge of Reform in the composition of the house. Lord Morley, in strongly opposing the amendment, remarked that Lord Lansdowne was not justified in expecting the Government at this stage to help in constructing particular machinery of the House. He could not imagino the House of Commons' passing a Bill impairing the Crown or the , Protestant Succession. He contended that to insist in preserving for Home Lords a decided voice in the re-shaping otf tha. Government \of Ireland was maladroit, in view of the record of that House concerning Irish affairs during the last hundred years. The mischief of absentee landlordism was aggravated by the mischief of an absentee Parliament. Lord Lansdowne'.? proposed committee, which was intended j to decide matters without appeal would override and supercede the House of Commons. lord Courtney supported the referendum. , j The debate was adjourned. | J