LOBBY RUMOUR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 7

LOBBY RUMOUR.

SAVING A DEADLOCK. WILL THE GOVERNMENT TRY TO? LIBERAL PAPKR'S OPINION. I Dj Tc!csrar>h.-Pies!i Asioclatloo.— Copyright. (Received ApiiJ 8, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 7th April. The Morning Leadrr (Liberal), re fairing to a lobby rumour that the («ovornment does not intend to save n deadlock between tho two Houses by an m>peal to th« Throne, states that it would be bettor for the Government to break up and be re-formed than for the country to be drhen into another aimless dissolution. FISCAL REFORM. MOTION IN THE COMMONS. FREEIRADE AMENDMENT CARRIED. LONDON, 7th Aprif. In the House of Common*, in Committee on the Lords' veto rerolutionc, Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, moved ihe firet lesolution (depriving the Hou»c of Lords of power to amend or reject a money Bill). Mr. Haldane agreed that it was unfortunate to havo to introduce written provisions into an unwritten Constitution, but when a breach of tuch magnitude was made without the Lords' assurance- that it would not be repeated, members of the House of Common* would bo unworthy of their traditions if they failed to deal with the situation. If the Liberals failed to establish a real revising Second Chamber, the Conservatives, under the guise <>1 lclorm, would strengthen the hereditary principle. Mr. Aufien Chamberlain (a former Chancellor of the Exchequer), for the Opposition, replied that the Liberals' reform of the House of Lord* was a sham and was only referred to in order to give Sir Edward Grey and Mr. Haldane n bhndow of an excuse for retaining otiicr. Mr. Hamilton Benn, Unionist member for Greenwich, moved: — 'That &cal reform is necepsary owing to foreign tariff* hindering British trade and aggravating uncmploj - ment." Mr. 8. Storey, Unionist member for Sunderland, seconded. H« declared thnt all petty constitutional squabble* wc*c worthies* compared with the failing of British manufactuies and the miseries of <-hronic unemployment. He predicted that a change- would come through tho combination of tariff reformers and British trade union*. Sir G. Kernp t> Liberal member for North-west Manchester, moved, and Mr. J. A. Simon, Liberal member for Wnrthamstow, seconded a Frcetrnde amendment. The amendment was carried on a division, tho voting being as under: — For Frcetradc Amendment ... 235 Against Amendment 202 Government majority ... 33 The lrixh Nationalists abstained from voting.