VARIOUS VERSIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 81, 7 April 1910, Page 7

VARIOUS VERSIONS.

MR. ASQUITH AND MR. REDMOND THE BUOGET. NEWSPAPER REPORTS. ■y Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 7, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 6th April. Several new6paper» report that Mr. Asquith has arranged with Mr. Redmond (chairman of the Nationalist party) to allow the passage of the Budget. The papers give various versions of the conditions arranged. ANTI-VETO LEAGUE. A DESCENDANT OF THE BUDGET LEAGUE. (Received April 7, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, 6th April. The Liberals are starting an AntiVeto League. It will be a lineal descendant of the Budget League, which recently died. "SENSELESS TALK." ABOUT A DISSOLUTION. A CONSTITUTIONAL COURSE. LO~NDON, 6th April. The Daily News (Liberal) protests against "the senaeless talk about an 'inevitable dissolution.' The probability is that the King will do pretty wefl what King William IV. did in 1832. Just a* the National commonsense killed the D tikes' outcry against the Budget, so it is likely to support a settlement of the House of Lords' veto by a constitutional course. The electors do not want another consultation. They hay« given their orders, and want to have them carried oat. [When the Reform Bill was in the House of Lords, on 7th May, 1832, a hostile amendment — 'That the question of enfranchisement should precede that of disfrauchisement" — was carried by 35 vote*. Two days later the- Ministry re&igned, but were induced to resume | office on William IV. granting them full power to secure majorities by tho creation of now Peers. On 30th May, i tbe Bill was carried through Committee of the House of Lords, and was read a third time, by a mujority of 84. It re--1 ceived the Royal assent ou 7th June. 1832.] The Morning Leader (Liberal) declares that Mr. Lyttelton's speech shows that the obvious policy of th» Opposition is to embroil the Government with the Crowa. The country now sees that the Opposition is frantically beating up an agitation of sham loyalty on behalf of the King. [During the debate on the Lords' veto resolutions, Mr. Alfred Ly Melton, formerly Unionist Colonial Secretary, administered a rebuke to the Home Secretary, Mr. Churchill, for "his unge-ner-ous and unseemly fashion of imputing to the King a policy that the King was unable to deny." There was not a shadow of foundation for Mr. Churchill's suggestion of an alliance between the Radicals and the Ibrone.] THE GUILLOTINE. LONG AXD LIVELY DEBATE. "WAIT AND SEE." j LONDON, 6th April. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, moved the resolution (previously outlined) for applying the guillotine to the debate in committee on the Government's veto reeolutious. Mr. Asquith pointed out that the House of Lords recently discussed' similar resolutions (moved by iiord Rosebery, and agreed to by the Lords) in four and a half days ; and those resolutions included the abolition of the hereditary principle. For th© discussion on the Oovernment> resolutions, the Government proposed to allow eight and » j half days. Moreover, opportunities for j detailed discussion would be allowed when the Bill wae introduced. This would be done without unnecessary do- j lay. j After a long and lively debate, the resolution applying the guillotine was carried, the voting being as under: — For the resolution 217 Against the resolution ... 133 Government majority 84 Mr. Asquith so frequently ,-eplied '"Wait and see" to questions concerning the Budget that the Opposition interjected the phrase, to annoy the Prime Minister, almost every time he spoke Mr. A. Bonar Law (Unionist member for Dulwich) described the Government as a "wait and see" Government.