THE TIMES SPEAKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1909, Page 7

THE TIMES SPEAKS.

WHAT REALLY HAS BEEN DONE. LEGISLATION INVOLVING NOVEL PRINCIPLES. (Received December 3, 9 a.m ) LONDON, 2nd December. The Times declares that Mr. Asquith's motion, embodies the doctrine of the last four years. It goes much beyond any previous assertion of privileges, and, by implication, denies the power or right of the Lords to have a voice in any legislation tacked to the Budget. It was only incidentally that the Lords refused supplies this year. What really has been done is to refer to the country a quantity of legislation involving novel principles, denying the right of appeal to the courts of law, and establishing an expensive bureaucracy with arbitrary inquisitorial powers. THE GREAT STRUGGLE. MESSAGE FROM MR: J. CHAMBEALAIN. COUNTING ON ~THE DEMOCRACY. LONDON, 2nd December. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, in a message to a Tariff demonstration at Shoreditch, said he was counting on the democracy of the East End to help in the great struggle before the country. BRITISH INVESTMENT SECURITIES. SHOWING A RISE. LONDON, 2nd December. The Opposition, newspapers comment on the rise in British investment securi--sties in consequence of the House of Lords' action. LORDS' ATTITUDE ON THE DEVELOPMENT BILL. AMENDMENTS NOT INSISTED ON. "DECLINE TO BE D-RAWNI INTO A PRECEDENT." LONDON, 2nd December. At the instance of the. Uniopist Leader, Lord Lansdowne, the House of Lords resolved : — "That while not insisting upon its. amendments in the Development Bill, the House of Lords does not accept the reasons offered by the House of Commons, and does noti consent to the grounds of the said reasons being drawn into a precedent, as the Bill involves questions of policy in which both Houses are concerned, and with which the House of Lords has heretofore been accustomed to deal." LETTER FROM CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. DUNEDIN, This Day, The Trades and Labour Council "received a letter from Mr. Lloyd-George, thanking them for their message of enaaur«.g«rncn<i regarding tho ButigQt pro-