LORDS AND THE VETO.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8444, 11 August 1911, Page 5

LORDS AND THE VETO.

ATTITUDE OF TKE PEERS.

THE "STALWARTS "SUBSIDING

Per Press xlssociation—Copyright. LONDON, August 10. ; In the course of the censure debate m the House of ,Lords,' the Marquis of Lansdowne declared that if the creation of peers Was odious to the Marquis 6f Crewe it was equally odious to the King. 'The Government ought not to force his. Majesty's hands- merely out of petulancy and vindictiveness.

Lord . Halsbury emphasised that he would have moved the rejection of the third reading of the Bill, but he assumed that Lord Lansdowne would stick to his amendments. He repudiated the idea that he had entered into a campaign against Lord Lansdowne, for whom he had respect, even affection.

The Archbishop of York said that he would support the Bill. The policy of insisting on the amendments was distasteful to the Sovereign and again.it the interests of the House. Lord St. Aldwyn declared that he would never vote to place the King in the cruel position of having to create unlimited peers. The division to-day on the amendments in the Parliament Bill will make clear the provisional order of Bills not included in the term public Bills. . (Received August 11, 9.30 a.m.) There is some uncertainty as to the result; of the division in the House cf Lords as to whether Lord Halsbury's followers will be able to outvote the Government. Last night's debate failed to secure any accession to the ranks of the " stalwarts. 3' , -(Received August 11, 10.45 a.m.) ■ •■■■ f ■■■:.■ ■■■■■■'•^ ;" "LONDON,'August 10.. • : Lord Morley, replying to the Marquis of Lansdowne, said, if "the Bill was defeated, sufficient peers would be created to guard 'against a future defeat.

On a division, ; the Government majority was shown to be seventeen.