BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 November 1912, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Eie* trie Telegraph—Copyright-,)

THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. PRIME MINISTER'S MOTION. (Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.) LONDON, November 13. The Government will allow two days for the discussion of the Prime Minister's motion to rescind Sir Frederick Banbury's amendment to the Homo Rule Bill. Friday has been reserved for the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. Hence the discussion on the closure resolution in regard to the Homo Rulo Bill has been postponed until Monday. STATEMENT BY MB REDMOND. FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY. (Received November 13, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 12. Mr John Redmond, Leader of Nationalist Party, lus issued a statement in which he, while not disguising the danger to the Government with respect to the Banbury incident, explains that the absence of many Liberals and Nationalists was due to <a false sense of security created by recent large Government majorities.

CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT. EXPLOITERS OF WOMEN. (Received Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.) LONDON, November 13. In the House of Commons, the Criminal Law Amendment Bill was read a third time. A number of Liberals protested that the flogging, which the Bill provides, is not to be inflicted on exploiters of women for a first offence.

CREATING A PRECEDENT, MEET TNG OF PROTEST. THE GOVERNMENT CRITICISED. (Received This Morning, 12.3-5 o'clock, 1 LONDON, November 13. Tlio Times' Parliamentary correspondent says tlio Government i& creating a precedent in rehabilitating a Bill. The Unionists take a most serious view of such a breach of Parliamentary practice. Numerous meetings of protest were ■held last night. Mr Austin Chamberlain, speaking at - Lambeth, compared the Government party with an overladen, overdriven horse, .slipping and breaking its knees. The party was beaten on Monday because it was tired if being dragged through the lobbies, as stated by tho Times, to chop off its opponents' heads. Lord Selborne, speaking at Walworth, said the Unionists on Monday had hit the Government straightly and squarely between . the eyes. There, was, he said, a time when a Government would have resigned arter such a defeat, because it- was aware that the Lords could force an appeal to the electors. Now, liy,vever, having secured themselves against the Lords and against Mio electors, gagged and muzzled their opponents in tho Commons, a.nd paid £-100 a pear to the Commonens, ine Government was going to ignore the adverse vote. Sir Edward Carson, at St. Pnncras, said the Government cared no more for its opponents vote than for the speech, which had been gagged. Had the Government been honest, it would, in view of the European situation , have gone to tho Commons, adI mitted its defeat, and asked its opponents whether, if tlx? Home Rule Bill was dropped, the Government would receive the moral support of xh° whole Hou.se to enable it to carry the concert of Europe. The whole weight of the United Kingdom Unionists would 'gladly have been given —it would bo given even now.