BRITISH POLITICS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 141, 20 June 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE CONFERENCE

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright LONDOiV, June 19.

A conference took place between Mr, Asquith, the Earl of Crewe, Mr Lloyd-George, Mr Birrell, Mr Balfour, Lord Lansdowne, the Earl of Cawdoor, and Mr A. Chamberlain. Mr Chamberlain said he hoped Mr Birrell would reassure the Nationalists. , . Earl Cawdor said the Conservatives expected that the conference would last three weeks, and that there would be no lawyer and no chairman. The Times says that the fact of there being no limitation or conditions looks hopeful for a working compromise being reached. Several Radicals have tabled questions to pin Mr Asqiiith to make little or no concession. (Received June 20, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 19. Mr Clynes, Labor. M.P., speaking at a Labor demonstration in Manchester, said, "Conference implies concession—it surely means compromise. We can make no concession and cannot consent to compromise." Mr Snowden, another Labor member, speaking at Stanhopedene, said, : 'The conference could only be justified by success. If people were betrayed once more during the present generation, democats would never again put faith in any professions of democracy on the part of official Liberalism. iVlr Bonar Law, Unionist member, speaking, at West Jtiartiepoole, said, "VV'hatever changes were necessary could only come by that evolution through which our Parliamentary institutions had grpwn, making them so flexible and strong."