THE VETO BILL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10293, 22 July 1911, Page 5

THE VETO BILL

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PASSES ITS THIRD READING.

SPEECHES BY LEADERS

(Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) LONDON, July 21. Lord Morloy, in an opening speech on the third reading, said the consequences of the Parliament Bill might )>q grave. They were intended to be grave; but the consequences of the rejection would be far graver. He desired to see the inevitable Parliamentary political operation carried through without a social shock. He concluded by declaring bis intention to pass the Bill that night, and allow the real Bill to pass by-and-by. He was not going to surrender to the House of Commons or the Government ; but to the verdict of. the country. 7 Lord Lansdowne replied that the Unionists revelations were intended to prevent the Government from tampering with the union until the country had expressed its view. If, as the Government contended, the country had changed its mind regarding Home Rule, why cheat it of the opportunity of saying* so ? The Government ought not to be able to do behind the backs of the people what they could not do in their face. The Unionist's ultimate goal was a reasonable reconstruction of the House of Lords. The A roll bishop of Canterbury, after remarking that Homo Rule was twice rejected, and asking whether it oould be contended that a definite scheme for Home Rule was before the country at the last election, uttered a grave warning against the abuse of temporary political powers. Disaster would, he said, await a land, or Government. or party, so led. Lord Willoughby de Brooke insisted that Lord Lansdowne's were the irreducible minimum which the Unionists would accept. After further speeches, the Bill, as amended, was read a third time without division.

NEWSPAPER COMMENTS. (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) LONDON, July 21. The Times statss that Lord Lansdowne's reference to the materials for an honourable settlement suggests hi; readiness to avoid more extreme measures and to seek a more pacific issue. If the Government was resolved to carry through a Constitutional outrage, there was no emirse open to the Peers which would not involve grave evils. A charge of cowardice oould in nowise lie against them. When men were no longer free agents, there was no cowardice in a temporary submission, with a determination to right the wrong hereafter. CONFERENCE OF LEADERS. UNIONIST FEELING HARDENING. (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) , LONDON, July 21. The Unionist leaders of both Houses .are conferring to-day, and the Unionist Peers meet Lord Lansdowne in the House this afternoon. The feeling amongst Unionists durf ing the past twenty-four hours has been hardened. Many favour opposing the Government's policy, whatever the cofH;. The Times declares, that the Pres.; Association's statement that the King has consented to the creation of Peers represents at any rate the growing belief in political circles. '