IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2749, 2 March 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE LORDS AND FINANCE

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LONDON, Feb. 28

In the 'House of Commons the Speaker ruled out Mr. Dalzie'l’s amendment.

Mr Asquith asked leave to call the House of Commons together in time for the Finance Bill on March 24. On the 29th he 'would, he said, make a. resolution excluding the Lords from the domain of finance, and declaring its sphere of legislation as regards the veto would he limited to the lifetime of a single Parliament. Those constitutional changes •would he without prejudice to other in the subsequent year. If the resolutions were accepted a Bill would he introduced to give effect to their operative part, but without waiting for the passage of the Bill the 'resolutions would he sent- to the House of Lords to bring the main issue to a. trial of conclusions. Mr .Redmond, reiterated Iris demand that Mr Asquith ask the throne for guarantees.

CRISIS TEMPORARILY AVERTED.

GOVERNMENT “RIDING FOR A

FALL.’

(Received March 1, 10.57 p.m.)

Mr. Lloyd-George has intimated that the Government will stand or fall by its pledges. It- is impossible to ask the Royal perogative until it is known whether the Lords reject a principle ensuring the predominance of the will of the House of Commons within the lifetime of Parliament. Mr. Balfour ridiculed .the idea of asking the Lords to assent to the practical abolition of the House until another was created. The Government’s sole concern was how to keep the Cabinet together. The ‘'Times” Parliamentary correspondent say s the decision severing the limitation of the veto cn ordinary legislation from reform of the House of Lords appeased the Nationalists temporarily, and ended the crisis. The Government is riding for a fall. They are hopelessly discredited. Mr. Asquith is aware that if the House of Commons adopts his resolutions there will be no more, ground than before for submitting to the King the preposterous request that he should strain Iris prerogative beyond all precedent merely to please a faction.

THE GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE

(Received March 1. 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 1. The Prince of Wales was again present in the House of Commons. The Lords gallery was crowded. After a strenuous debate, Mr. As•quith’s motion to- take all the House ■of Common’s time was agreed to without- division. Mr. A c cjuith’s. and Lloyd-George’s speeches showed that- the Budget would not be brought- forward until the resolutions had Teen carried, ..Mr. LloydGeorge declaring that unless the Government was able to ensure that their proposals would become law they would quit office.