LIBERALS AND LORDS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 5

LIBERALS AND LORDS.

LABOUR CAMPAIGN. PUBLIC OWNEKSHIP, AND BIGHT- ' TO-WORK. By Teleirrarh—Preea Association—Oopyrleht j (Bee. May 2, 10.5 p.m.) . B London, May 3. G The Independf.nl Labour Party is e arranging to hold 2000 meetings weekly i during tho summer. Speakers will visit every town and village, and will deliver ) addresses on the right-to-work, abolition [ of pauperism, and public ownership of j land, railways, and mines. I DOVE-TAILED. j A TEINITY THAT WILL STAND i TOGETHER. (Rec. May 2, 11.5 p.m.) London, May 2. . Mr. Will Thorne, Labour member of the House of Commons for West Ham (South), in a speech at Nottingham declared that the House of Lords would not .be easily abolished. He believed that the Lords, the Monarchy, and the Church would go at tho same time, they wero so dove-tailed. VETO AND REFORM. LIBERALS SHOULD DEAL WITH . THE LATTER. . London, May 1. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Earl of Crewe, speaking at the Eighty Club, said the Liberals would make an irreparable mistake if they threw away the opportunity of altering the composition of the House of Lords. Lord Rosebery's and Lord Lansdowne's schemes of reform would finally destroy the only existing constitutional safeguard—namely, the power, as a -last resort, of oreating new peers. THE VETO BILL AND THE REFORM PARTY. The Government's Bill deals only with the Houso of Lords' veto. The composition of the House of Lords is only touched upon in the preamble, which foreshadows "an ultimate Second Chamber on a popular basis." ' As a set off to the Government s proposal of a limited veto, the Unionists offer a House of Lords with a,reformed composition, but unimpaired powers. Within tho Liberal party itself there is an influential section who urged the Government to simultaneously undertake limitation of the veto and reform of the composition, but the Radicals and the Irish Nationalists joined in the cry of "Veto first," in which they have sucThe 'passing of the Budget by the House of Lords—whioh last year refused to pass it until the judgment of the people had been obtained—clears the way for a straight-out fight on the veto limitation. The terms of the Bill were published yesterday. The House of Commons will probably pass it, the House of Lords will almost certainly reject it, and the next election will be fought on it, TWO CELTS. MB. LLOYD-GEORGE AND ME. T. P. O'CONNOR. London, May 1. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,. Mr. D. Lloyd-Goorge (who met the Nationalist leaders a good deal during the period when tho Redmondites' support of tho Budget was in doubt) is motoring in France and Italy with Mr. T. P. O'Connor (one of Mr. Redmond's lieutenants). -iPARLIAMENTARY ADJOURNMENT. London, May 1. Viscount Morley, Secretary of State for Ihdia, speaking at the Royal Academy banquet, referring to the adjournment of Parliament, stated that, the Government was determined to givo the country a month's respite from speechmaking.