IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2970, 11 May 1893, Page 2

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

PER PRESS ANSOOIATIOS.

LoxDra, May 9. , At a meeting of the London members of the Liberal party a resolution denouncing the Budget was carried, owing to there being no proposal to tax ground values, and that it does not fulfil the programme announced at Newcastle. ' The "Daily Chronicle* considers that the retirement of Mr Davitt from Parliament, will cast a heavy shadow over the Irish cause. In discussing the Home Ytule Bill in Committee, Lord Randolph Churchill said that the Unionists would not submit to be gagged, whereupon Mr | Tim Healey remarked " remember }887," Mr Joseph Chamberlain declared that the Nationalists had been squared, and that a stop should be put to gagging, Mr Gladstone in replying to the latter, declined to state the conditions under which the Irish members should be retained at Westminister, until the main question of separate parliaments had besn determined. May 10, Mr W. Redmond's amendment to. call the Irish legislature- the Irish Parliament, was rejected by a large majority. Sir H, James has accepted the Premier's challenge, and will move a new olause declaring the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament in cases of dispute. An amendment proposing that the Irish legislature shall be subordinate to the Imperial Parliament v;as rejected by 35, Mr Gladstone, objected to it as putting a bar- sinister upon an Irjsh Parliament,