COMING SESSION.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18919, 7 February 1927, Page 9

COMING SESSION.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. MANY WEIGHTY QUESTIONS. (bt cAjtu—rßKiß (AUSTRALIA* AJTO Btf. CASLI ABSOCUTIOK.) LONDON, February 5. A political correspondent writes Of the opening of Parliament! What Maxse calls "The Cabinet of Verbiage" Will have to face criticism by both ill supporters and Oppositionists. The most prominent subject daring the debate oh the Address-in>Beply will be China, upon which Labour is moving an nmendmout. Sir Aus'ten Chamberlain will be sharply criticised by Imperialists 611 both tides of the House'to the effect that he subordinated British interests to enthusiasm for the League At Nations, but the Labour and Liberal masted attack trill be grounded on the alleged subordination of the usefulness of the League to the care Of British Interests, to which he can reply that When in offiee, Mr MacDoiiald, in Egypt, and Mr Ll6yd George, la Cflaflflk, adopted an Identical * policy. Both Oppositions would like to fight on firmer ground, bat there is no safe common ground except possibly China, on Which they ale united." The legislation proposed will be much more meagre than is tho previous session, due to the restivehess ef the people at the flood of laws. Mr Baldwin's major planks are the unavoidable recasting of the Poor Laws, reform of the House of Lords, the franchise, and trade union legislation. All Are of the most.prickly character, but ree6nt byelections ate forcing the Cabinet to grasp the nettles as the t Unit 6t starvation and the coal strike settlement

Labour it disunited, And th* most interesting political development to the immediate future will be the fight betwcett the Eitremistl AAA the M6tl*rates td capture the part* mAehine, Which is ut prAsAAt eoatrMled by m trades Unlott OoAgrAss. ... ,■ , Minister! !*Ar that too drAltlft l*gi»latiOn touching the UnlOns ttffV rtUnltt Labdur and that meadttMl WO ttlll will be Useless. A yoar Ado Mr tl A, HacQuistdu'fl ftriVAtA BUI lft this «onntttdn Ml withdrawn at Mr Baldwin's requMt. AiteTA falnbut ttegch With tlis Mvltftllst p*Mra«6a: «Lftrd give peace in our time." Instead, fie gAV* the general altd teal stflktt, InWiving iOifteS at prftietit btyOnlfeitimatiofi. The Cabinet ArOpOlAls mttit Alto IHelude thfl bfttWhnent Of tfidnttrtal edhditions tmlefts the? tfilh td fide a fdvolt of the young** Conaorvatim. Mr Lloyd Oeergftl ft 1.000,000 bought the kiMeft of WnAteAtt»twAAtietha of the Liberals. The reftMnlngfrAeHon still IfAgArd him At the "BeAHftt WeraAA" Of Llberallim. Whilst f»t«Ad UktoteV at* him toA? hfcr* beta «ArUti) M-m>'■'. Ate A mt (Liberal &uaUT to wfael they can dee and MOVA Aft Alibi in the event Of him indulging la too fantastic OfgieA. However, the refusal of BUch promlflont "Wee Frees" as Sir Jdhtt Simon and the Manjtii* of LUWlhshlfb ' to join the cotmtll, ett|g«ttt that "tofteO-' guidness" will s66n only bt a party memory. Nevertheless, it 1A essential Hftt the Welsh wilArd, Who U iOW Sailed an' "Alchemist" from his ability id produee gold when needed, should Justify the purchase At the coming MJilOn. flfc. Will, therefore, be the fiercest •* Well fcl the most feared of eritlt* of thl <sW<htmoot. Whether thlt Will leAd, At he hopes, to restoration to ofleA lA two year!, is Another question whleh depends more oh the ability of M* Baldwin to ttrengthen the OAWftlt ft? a reduction of numbers (whleA WM postponed owing to th« ChiAeiA erisil), but a place must BO found At the soonest possible moment for Britain'* . beet brain, Sir Alfred Monl This will make, three flrst-elasS brains ih thO G*oinet ih the following ordet*-Blr Alfred Mond, Mr Neville Clwmbetlainj attd Mr Amcry.