FILLING UP THE CUP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 146, 14 March 1908, Page 5

FILLING UP THE CUP.

SCOTTISH LAND BILL. REJECTED BY THE LORDS. 1 LORD ROSEBERY ITS LEADING,FOE. BY TELEGRAPH —-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHI London, March 12. In tho House of Lords, tho Duke of Montroso moved the rejection of tho Scottish Small Landholders' Bill (Govornmont moasure) and the substitution of a, -resolution against croftorising.tho }vholo of Scotland. ■. ■ This motion was carried by 153 votes to 33. .Tho Lord .Chancollor (Lord Loreburn) promised that if .tho Houso «:ould'go into committeo on the' Scottish Small Landholders' Bill, tho Government would'meet all amendments in a most, conciliatory spirit. Lord Rosebery,\who supported Lord Montrose's amendment, wroto to "The Times": —"Deeds arq inoro significant than words. After considering tho House,'of Lords' objections for Vsoven months, tho Government returned tho Bill unaltered, although all Scots agricultural authorities 'upheld 1 the action of the Lords."

A CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. , The House of Lords has :accepted '. tho challenge held-out, and has thro™, out the Scottish Small Landholders' Bill, Tho policy of 'the Goverpment, announced! by the Prime Minister last year and now carried out, was to pass the .two.ScottishJjand Bills—tho.Small Landholders and thoN r '>ind ' tlie House of CommonsvL jter a pro forma discussion. The House' of "fiords -'.would, theni the Prime Minister said, be "given an opportunity of discussing-tho'Biils'and ;Riving effect to the .Housp of Commons'.''resolution—that in matters of legislation..tho .. wjll of the people, as expressed, through their representatives in the House .of Commons, must bo ; supremo." . ;■ In, rejecting tho Bill, tho llouso of Lords, ■it will bo seen, has the enthusiastic assistance of the Liberal Scottish Peer and exPremier,; Lord ' Eosebery, ; who declares ; that' tho Bill will, destroy, in Scotland tho friendly, relations of landlord and. tenant, and will introduce features'of tho Irish disorders. Ho ; also resents the ''footbaH-liko precipitancy" with which .the -House-,of Commons ha 3 sent up tho Bill. : ' ." . . . ■