THE NATIONALISTS' ATTITUDE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5475, 21 February 1910, Page 3

THE NATIONALISTS' ATTITUDE.

LONDON, Feb. 18. Mr T. P, O'Connor states that there will be no crisis if the Government is tbleto declare that the Veto Bill will ', become law despite the Lords' hostility , to it ; jjl 6 2fttien>alists -were opposed to ( tendlV no the Budget before tlie vets . wu d alt with, inasmuch as it was ' tantamount to recognising the Lords' , right to iccepf or reject, thus restoring ( tin very power the nation had declared ( tkeLordi should never again possess. , Mr O'Brien, in a letter to the Nort h - ( etst Cork branch of the Irish League, , ■aid he wu row they were unshakably ( •ttached to the policy which was al- ( ready making the Radicalised Iri-h . party pause before conniving at the ■ robbery of 'lrdand through Mr Lloyd - ( George's Budget. ■-' i Mr John Dillon, in a letter to the ( Kilkhagh branch of the league, ac ( knowledging a contribution to the ( parliamentary fond, remarked :" An ( other election may be forced on Ireland before many weeks " t Toe Parliamentary correspondent of ( the "Times" says some extreme j Badioals are prepared to move an , amendment to the Address-in-Reply regretting (nat Mr Aaquith has not . aiked for annrances from the King. The "Times," in a leading article, says that the Barnes statement is considered a manifesto. The tone of it is distinctly unpleasant, adds the '-Times," but he forgets that the authors of tbe confusion were the Government. They introduced a fidget which the Lords referred to the people, and the. result was suih that the Budget cannot now be passed. The Lords were justified, and tbe whole cua against them now falls to the ground.