THE LORDS' FIAT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 667, 18 November 1909, Page 7

THE LORDS' FIAT.

UNIONIST MOTION. BUDGET BILL TO BE-lIUNG UP ON SECOND READING. TILL THE COUNTRY IS CONSULTED. (By Teleeraph;—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Ecc. Novomber 17, 10.5 pjn;) London, Novembor 17. In tho. House.of Lords tho Unionist Leader, Lord Lansdowno, gavo notico that, ivhen tho second reading of tho Finance Bill is moved, ho will move:— That the. House of Lords Is not; justified in giving its consent to the Bill until it has been submittotl to the judgment of tho country. The "Daily Chronicle" declares that the decision of tho House of Lords to destroy the Budjet is war against representative principles. It will bo a revolutionary act, and will havo revolutionary consequence's. London, November 16. Mr. Rufus Isaacs; K.C., Liberal M.P., addressing his constituents at Reading, said the rejection of tho Budget by tho Houso of Lords would causo serious financial disturbance, and possibly chaos. Nevertheless the Government would not, seek, a party advantage,. but would 1 strive its utmost, to meet the situation. FIGHT FOR; LANCASHIRE. , MR. BALFOUR TO SPEAK LN FREE TRADE HALL. MR. CHURCHILL'S MANIFESTO. (Rec. November 17, 10.5 p.m.) London,- Novembor 17. Forty thousand applications havo been mado for 5000 seats in the Free-trade Hall to hear Mr. Balfour, Leader of tho Opposition, dohver his great speech at Manchester to-night. Mr. Churchill, President of tho Board of Trade, has accepted an invitation by tho Lancashire and' Cheshire Liberal Federation to deliver a speech in December. Ho has issued a column manifesto against tariff reform in relation to Lancashire industries. Referring Houso of Lords, Mr. Churchill asks: "Why should a small cluster of titled persons bo sot up to rulo all the rest of us? If tho Lords establish a right to control finance, they mil hinder all Liberal legislation, and will allow the Conservatives' protection, conscription, coercion, and schemes of war conquest to pass unchallsnged."

AMONG THE CONSTITUENCIEs7~3 V PORTSMOUTHvAND LOUTH. *"** < IBy Talerrapa.-rresa AisoclaUon.-OoDTTlslit.l , :..':„.. -, ' v "/London, November 16. : brrEobert Perks,. Liberal .member for Louth, Who has announced his intention not "• to offer himseirfor re-election owing to his disapproval ' of the financial policy of the Government, has' 1 declined to. reconsider his decision. V. ■ :.The Unionists of Portsmouth are inviting Lord Charles Bercsford. to, contest the byelection for that constituency, rendered necessary by.the death of Sir John Baker. ,| ,: ADMIRAL BERESFORD ACCEPTS. .' , ■'_'■' (Rec. November 17, 10.5 p.m.) ■'!'' » ; ; ■•: • '■■:.■■;..' London, November 17. ■ ! .Admiral Lord Charles Beresford has accepted the invitation to stand for Portsmouth. , The Conservative-Unionist Association gave-him a' unanimous invitation to contest the vacancy.,- . [No 'doubt the .Unionists' consider, that the' 1 &i. of • Lo J d v C;haries BeresforQ will help.them. o win Mok ,Portsmouth, which in ffnl Sleotipri.. of • 1900 ■ was strongly. Unionist, although prior to, .that it was, as now, a Liberal ■ constituency. Evidently Admiral Beresford has abandoned his ■ recentlyreported candidature for the Unionist seat • at hast Jtfarylobone, which Lord Robert Cecil 8? ■ Us Free-food convictions and the Tariff Reformers' opposition.] • -.■ ; ;i)EATH OP AN OLD CONSERVATIVE. ; '":.■'''" "' ■'■'■■.• .London, November 16. .' '. Sir : Frederick Dixon-Hartland; Unionist M.P. for the Uxbridgo Division of Middlesex, is dead, aged 77.. : [Sir Frederick Dixbn-Hartland. had been a Conservative member of the House of Commons fo?? 1 t lß f Shaving. represented Uxbridge since 1885—and was one of ithe founders of the Primrose Loague. Ho. was a director of the London ■Uitj: and Midland Bank, and of the Westminster Fire and Life Office. The seat will be a hard one for the: liberals to capture, for though, in the Liberal boom in 1906, the deceased: member's majority was reduced to 145, urthe two elections• prior to.that he had been returned unopposed, and in 1892 his.maioritv was 3143.] J DISORDER AT WATFORD-ARREST OF ' - PICKPOCKETS. ' . London, November 16. , Mr. Alexander Uro, Lord Advocate for Scotland, addressed a meeting at Watford, Herts, amid many interruptions. Mr. Uro was unablo to speak for half an hour. Many persons were ojected. London pickpockets in large numbers, expecting disorder, secured a harvest of watches and money. The police arrested fourteen persons. [Watford was ono of the surprises of the 1900 election, the Liberals capturing what had been regarded as a safe Unionist' seat. The Right Hon. T. F. Halsey (Unionist), who had held ,tho seat since 1892 (twico unopposed), was defeated by Mr. N. Micklem (Liberal) by '1476 votes. The fight at Watford will be keeu. as Mr. Uro's reception .indicates.] 1 '..,

THE UNIONIST BID FOR THE LABOUR VOTE. , AUSTRALIAN BANKER DENOUNCES SOCIALISM. London, November 18.' Mr. W. A. Horn (formerly, a South Australian pastoralist and mining /investor, now a director ofitho Bank of Adelaide in London) writes a letter to the "Standard," enclosing 100 guineas towards the Unionist Workingman Candidates' Fund organised by that paper. Mr.. Horn remarks that apparently the Socialist theory is that nobody.is entitled to anything except the'man who has not got it.' Possibly soon in England, adds tho writer, it will bo hold criminal to own anything except a vote, and not even that unless it is pledged to tho Socialist party.