CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2744, 24 February 1910, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

change. The loss of the Budget would he a terrible vindication of the Lords’ action. Ministers had discussed the policy of refusing to meet Parliament, and bad concluded that this would be neither wise nor courageous. The House must wait patiently foi- Hie Government proposals. When they were introduced the. Government 'would stake the whole of its existence upon carrying them into law.

Air. Belloo declared that the omission *h a guarantee from the King”s speech made the whole thing a piece of party sham. .

keir. hardie avants to de- . STIIOY THE LORDS.

Air. Keir HarcLie asked for an explanation of the proposed increase in naval expenditure, adding that the Government had evidently yielded to tile clamour of the yellow press. The refusal to vote supply would lx; drastic and revolutionary, but the Lords had created a revolution. He emphatically protested against Hie reconstruction of the House of Lords, and said that the Government had been sent back not to reconstruct, but to destroy.

LIBERALS DISSATISFIED WITH GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE.

Air. E. G. Hemmerde declared that if the Albert Hall pledge wa s not. the Alinisters’ policy, they would have to get their support from others.

Alessrs H. Dalziel, Wedge-wood, Pi He, Pickersgill, and Joseph Alartin echoed ”ur. Redmond’s complaints, anil alleged that the constituents had been deceived.

Sir Albret Spicer, said that the action of the Lords had spread the idea among the (people of the dominions overseas that Britain was decadent, and that- they could do better in many cases by dealing with foreign countries direct. He had fought the election upon the Albert Hall speech,, and could not honestly face his constituents if Air. Winston Churchill’s policy was adopted.