BRITISH POLITICS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 61, 14 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, March 12

Several newspapers anticipate that when the Lords reject or postpone the Commons' Veto resolutions, Mr Asquitli will ask the King for guarantees or will appeal to the country. Sir A. F. Ackland Hood, Unionist M.P. for the Wellington District of Somerset, speaking at Wellington, anticipated Mr Asquitli's resignation within three months, for which a financial crisis was being prepared. In the House of Commons, Mr Haldane, yielding -to Opposition protests, promised to bring down the Army Annual Bill before Easter. He announced that he was taking a sufficient supply for the Army for several months. The Unionists thanked Mr Haldane for his conciliatory attitude. The Daily Telegraph states that the Nationalists have received assurances that the whisky duties will be abandoned in the next Budget. MR ISAACS RE-ELECTED. (Received March 14, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 13. Mr Isaacs, K.C., was re-elected unopposed. He publicly thanked the Conservatives' Association for Its graceful act. Hp return was not a political trinmp®. It was a striking example of friendship between the different parties in Reading. (Received March 14, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 13.

Mr M'Kenna, replying to Mr Lee, stated that the Australian Indefatigables Avill be paid for the Dominions, hence they could not be included in the estimates for new -construction.

Mr Churchill, replying to Mr Macarthur, said that the question connected with ecclesiastical processions in the streets adjacent to Westminster Cathedral, on the occasion of the consecration next June, would receive timely and careful consideration. Mr Greenwood has given notice of a Bill to amend the law relating to murder, and enable verdicts to be returned if guilty in the first 'degree and in the second degree. '