BRITISH POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 16 January 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE VETO BILL. THE GOVERNMENT'S GRAYEST DANGER. LABOUR PARTYIS WEAKNESS Br Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. London, January 13. "Mr. G. N, Barnes, M.P. .for the BJackfriars Division of Glasgow, and a Labour leader, in a newspaper article states:— '•'i'ho. gravest danger facing the Government in passing the Veto Bill lies in the unnecessary preamble, which is intended to conciliate a certain section of the Cabinet. ' Labour members will vote against it." . The payment of members of Parliament would, he continues, lessen the importance of the Osborne judgment. The weakness of the Labour Party is its willingiiass to fall into line with Government tactics. The party had become lukewarm and inattentive. ' PREAMBLE TO THE VETO'BILL. ! The preamble of the Veto Bill runs as follows:— Whereas it .is expedient that provision should be made for- regulating the relations between the two Houses of ParliaAnd whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation: . And whereas provision will require hereafter to be made by Parliament in a measure effecting sucli substitution foi limiting and defining the powers of the new Second- Chamber, but it is expedient to make such provision as in this Act appears for restricting the existing powers of the House of Lords: • , Bo it therefore enacted by. tho lOpg s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of ,the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre-, sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same. CONSERVATIVE ORGANISATION. ' •' London, January 14. Mr. Balfour has. decided to institute a small committee to inquire into the question, of Conservative organisation.