A CAMPAIGN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 78, 4 April 1910, Page 7

A CAMPAIGN.

AGAINST HOUSE OF LORDS. DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE. MEETINGS IN THE PARKS. By Telegraph. — Preti Association.— Copyright. (Received April 4, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd April. The new National Democratic League is arranging a campaign against the Lords. The campaign will be chiefly 111 London and the South of England. Many meetings are to be held in the parks on Sundays. THE GUILLOTINE. UNIONIST NEWSPAPERS SEVERE ON MR. ASQUITH. "REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS." LO~NDON, 2nd April. The Unionist newspapers are very severe on Mr. Asquith s threatened use of the guillotine to limit to five days the committee stage of the debate on the Lords' veto resolutions. The Pall Mall Gazette describes tne process as revolutionary and as destructive of one estate of the realm which it has taken centurie* to erect. A correspondent writing to The Times declares that Mr. Churchill's associating the Crown with the Commons agaimt the Lords is an outrage against the Throne, and a gross instance of unconstitutional presumption and impertinence. PLURAL VOTING. ITS 'SUGGESTED ABOLITION. MOTION TALKED OCT. LONDON, 3rd April. In the House of Commons, Mr. A. J. Sherwell, Liberal member for Huddersfield, moved for leave to introduce a Bill abolishing plural votiiik anu providing that all elections bo held on tho same day. He stated that the ownership vote exceeded the Unionist majority in 69 constituencies, of which 41 produced Unionist gains. Mr. H. Sta\ely-Hill, Unionist member for Kingswinford, said that If the Liberals were honest they bhould also tackle redistribution. There was nothing to prevent the elections being held on the same day. The present system suited the convenience ot particular constituents. The motion was talked out. LIBERAL AND LABOUR CONFLICTS. A CONFERENCE SUGGESTED. (Received April 4, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd April. Owing to the prospect of other Liberal and Labour conflicts, the Master of Elibank (Hon. A. W. Murray), Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, has invited Liberal M.P.'s representing mining constituencies in South Wales to confer with him with the object of devising a working scheme. Strength, he says, Ties in unity, which the present settlement scheme aims to destroy. [In selecting Mr. Gibbins (just elected) as "Liberal candidate for Mid-Gla-morgan, a bitter protest was raised against the Master of Elibank's action in advising the Liberals not to oppose the Labour Party. The Master of Elibank replied that the South Wales Miners' Federation had repeatedly resolved to abstain while Sir Alfred Thomas (Glamorgan East) and Sir Samuel Evans adhered to the general political programme of tho Federation, and whenever a vacancy occurred they ..-oukl contest the seat against allcomers.]