THE BUDGET FIGHT.

Press, Volume V, Issue 13598, 6 December 1909, Page 7

THE BUDGET FIGHT.

"MAD MULLAHS.''

MR LLOYD-GEORGE ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

United Pre** Association—By Electric Teleg-aph—Copyright. (Received December sth, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 4. Mr Lloyd-George, speaking at the National Liberal Club, vehemently denounced tho Lords as mad Mullahs, and wreckers of popular hopes. The House had now perpetrated its last -a.-t Of destructive fury, and had initiated one of the greatest and most promising struggles of modern times. Mr Lloyd-George reiterated that the Campbell-Bannerman formula of Liberal ]egi_ation must become law within a single Parliament. Describing Lord Curzon as not being very wise or tactful, Mr Lloyd-George remarked: "He is less dangerous as the ruler of the House of Lords than as tie ruler of India. For further particulars apply to Lord Kitchener. If you want more information apply to Middleton. Then there is Lord Milner. There is one thing in common between Lord Milner and Lord Curzon. Both are very clever men, and both have every gift except that of common-sense. Lord Cromer found his country devastated 'by m'-govern-ment, and he left it abounding in smiling prosperity. Lord Milner found a smiling land, and left it, after years of mismanagement, a scorched and blackened desert. His is the peculiar genius of running institutions aud countries into destructive courses." Mr Lloyd-George next attacked j Lords Rothschild and Revelstoke, and twitted them on their ancestry. Both running down British investments and all things of tho country that offered hospitality to their forefathers. After arguing that the House of Lords were overborn by the liquor trade, Mr Lloyd-George exclaimed, "We've got Vm at last. I'll not let 'em go until all accounts are settled." Lord Carrington, who presided, characterised the speech as destined to hare far-reaching effect. ;_ONDON, December 4. The Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, in a letter to "The Times," says:—"Lord Crewe, the orator, assures the Peers they will be the laughing-stock of their compatriots -broad* if they reject the Money Bill, but Lord Crewe, the statesman, deliberately invests the senates of the overseas dominions with the very power whose exercise he ridicules at home."