THE VETO BILL
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UNIONIST AMENDMENTS ADOPTED.
REPORT STAGE COMPLETED.
(Received July 15, 8.5 ia.ni.)
LONDON, July 14.
Lord Newton's amendment to the Veto Dill, exempting from the operation of the Bill unitdl after a, general election any measure further limiting the legislative powers of the House of Lords, has been withdrawn. It was coldly received by both parties.
The door is now apparently finally closed to compromise. The Unionist Peers prefer to test tha Government's! powers to force its scheme upon the Lords, The report stage has been completed. The amendments of Lords Lansdowne and Cromer were retained. Lord Morley, ijord President of the Council, asserted that the Lords bad amended (ttae .measure so -freely that they had mad© it just the Bill they liked. Lord Lansdowne. said that if all the amendments they had made were inserted it was still a very danger - ous measure, The third.reading has been fixed for Thursday nextt, 20th inst. The House of Commons ■will consider the amendments- on the 24th, when At is expected, that Mr Asquith will intimate what he will do if the Peers still resist.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10288, 17 July 1911, Page 5
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194THE VETO BILL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10288, 17 July 1911, Page 5
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