BRITISH POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 73, 29 March 1910, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS.

GENERAL ELECTION NOT FAR OFF. SPEECH BY MR. HALDANE. REFORM OF THE SECOND CHAMBER. By Telegraph. -Prest A»*oclation.— Copyright. LONDON, 28th March. The Right Hon R. B. Haldane (Secretary for War), speaking at North Berwick, said a general election was not far off. There wer© discordant voices in the Houf^e of Commons, and he would be a bold man who would say for certain whether the majoiity would be for or against the Budget. Therefore, it was impossible for the Government to take a bold and decided course. The best thing wu» to stake their lives on the passing of the whole Budget. The veto legislation was a stepping-ston* to something bigger— the reform of the Se<jond Chamber. Tho Liberals must not stop at the veto, otherwise when the Conservatives were returned to power they would repeal the veto legislation. REAL ISSUE OF THE ELECTION. HOME RULE. LONDON, 28th March. Profesfor Dice}-, in a letter to Th* Times, states that Mr. Redmond's attitude shows that the real issue of the elections will be the repeal of the Act of Union. Moreover, if a Home Rule Bill is passed it is certain to include the retention of Irish representatives at Westminster iv order to keep the coalition in office. [Profe.-.-or Albert Venn Dicey, M.A., X.C, Vmerian Professor of EnglixhLaw since 1882, is author of "England's Case against Home Rule," published in 1686.]