BRITISH POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 642, 20 October 1909, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS.

NAVAL BURDEN. , MR. CHURCHILL RENOUNCES' WASTE. PARTY-MADE PANIC. (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright.) (Roc. October 19, 1J.5 p.m.) London, October 10. r Mr. Churchill, Prosident of the Board of i Trade, addressing his constituent* at Dundee, s and dealing with tha naml expenditure prob posed in tho Budget, referred to the "false, sham, lying panic" that was started in the r party interests of the' Conservatives.' He i added: ..I .'.'.•" ■ "'■ 1 "We will not be driven by the windy agita- • tjon of ignorant, interested, excited hotheads, ■ into wastjpg the public money upon armaments on a scale that js clearly not designed msrc)y for tho purposes of matorial .defence,, but which is part of a showy, Eensatiopal, and ag. gressivD Jingo policy." LIBERAL OPPOSES" BUDGET. London, October 18. Lord Joicey, owner of collieries' in Durham, who has' supported tho Liberals for twenty years, declares himself opposed to the Budget. His action has greatly 'surprised ttle ' Liberals, Y , " FREE-FOQDER M,P. FOR EAST HERTS TO 1 ' RETIRE. , : NEW TARIFF REFORM CANDIDATE TO r BE FOUND.. M.na'pn, October 18. 1 ' Both Mr. Abel Smith (tho' ; '.Uniopist Free, Fdoder who "sjts for East .Herds'and who de- - dines to tako the Tariff Reform' pledge) and his 1 Tarjff Reform opponent have agreed not to con--8 'test East Herts, thejr object, being to h o a) ■ the. breach in the constituency. ■■..' .:. , ■' A ; new Tariff Heform enndidhte will be' found for ; . the general election. ':\ >' '.'.■ .',' ..''.. LONDON a' SINGLE ELECTORATE. . WITPOUT PLURAT/TQTING.'' (Rec. October 10, 3,45 ,p,ni,) ,' ..:;. .^don,.October IS. , In tjio House of Commons tbe.GoTCTumerit carried the third reading of the London Elecr tions Bill, whioh constitutes .London a singlo 3 parliamentary horough, and 'abolishes plural 1 >"'!»!? 85 far a* London is concorneij. v' 3 The Opposition protested f.hVt tlin Bill was- ; an effort to ..disfranchise the London electors \ in the interests of tho'Liberal'parly.. GENERAL! REDISTRIBUTION RANTED, • . Th?. Unionist, objection .is .that; the Liberals t are procttidipg piecemeal, -by attempting to y provide • oue-man-one-voto for London ■' alon*; .nstead of considering the companion question . of one-voto-one-'yalus n,s for ; tl',a .whole of 'the J United Jungdoiq. Another point asserted by • Unionist speakers is that the Liberals, "know, s ing the people of. London arc Inrgp'lv Unionist,' provide in the Bill to hold nil elections on one day, "simply tp preypnt voters ami the party machinery in one district from helping; those in l others." . '.. ■■''■■■'. . ' ' e In an earlier debate Sir nenry lumber (the f Unionist, member ..for the lingo. London .coni stituency - : of .Wandsworth, V containing'. ovbr 8 fls,oM'-elefliqrs),' ; Mr.'.'Alfred' Ljtfelfpp '(Unionist momber. for St. .Qef»-jrH*p, Hanover Square, s Lopdo'n), and pthpr members/opposed- the. Bil), r on the ground that it was not accompanied by » a schemeprnyidinir fnr "a general' redistribii-: s tion pf seats, ant) that it. sought fo establish - pnc-miinronp-votc . esclijsivply' .for, London, s which, represented'.h'nc'-tiighfh '"of'.the' rljtttbpip} t of tlio whole country. - .'•" 3 M r ? mTt i Fjrft of'.Yv'orks, 1 replied thnt t)ie m\ removpd n'nomalien, and 1 thnf Londoners' grievnnces Aynre panobie 'of f bpins' reiiicdletl without..tlie;r having'to .nwa.it s the large measure of e|prtorn| inform" which « the fjQvsninieiit honed to pnw ])efovn the djs? - jsohitioiu'nf (he. 'present ParliiipjEjit, '..'