IMPERIAL POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 14514, 4 November 1910, Page 6

IMPERIAL POLITICS

IRISH HOME RULE.

WHAT IS MEANT BY DEVOLUTION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 3. Speaking at Dublin, Lord MacDonnell said that be had Earl Dunravcn's concurrence in tho following definition of devolution :—lt postdated the maintenance of an Impend controlling Parliament at Westminster ; a representative Irish Assembly with legislative and administrative functions and a controlling executive dealing with purely Irish affairs, the Treasury to furnish funds in the manner indicated in the Irish Councils Bill; and the continuance of the British Treasury's responsibility for I financing tho Land Purchase Act. A TORY CRITICISM. LONDON, November 3. (Received November 4, at 9.7 a.m.) The 'Pall Mall Gazette' (U.) says that Lord MacDonell's scheme is_ unsound both in its finance and policy, and is condemned at the outset by the unfair and extravagant demands it makes upon British taxpayers. THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS. LONDON, November, 3. (Received November 4, at 9.30 a.m.) It is officially announced that Lord Morley becomes Ixird President of the Council, the Karl of Crowe Secretary for India, Mr Jx>wis Harcourt Secretary for the Colonics, and the Earl of Beauchamp Commissioner of Works. THE COLONIAL OFFICE. LONDON, November 5. (Received November 4, at 8.55 a.m.) The 'Daily Chronicle' (G.) says that tho division of the Colonial Office will not be effected before tho Imperial Conference of next year. THE NEW DEPARTURE. NO DETAILS KNOWN. LONDON, November 3. (Received November 4, at 10.35 a.m.) No details are known of the division of the Colonial Office, which Lord Crewo foreshadowed as far b;ick as March 15, during his speech of welcome to Sir George Raid at the Colonial Institute. [Lord Crewe on the occasion referral to said: He thought the time would come, and it might come at no very distant date, when the double position of Secretary of-State for the Colonies might have to be reconsidered, with a view to some further arrangement being entered into by wliich the care of matters relating to the dominions might be entrusted to one official, and the care of the Crown colonies and protectorates, which was work of a very dieffrent kind, to another. Personally, were such an arrangement to come in his time he should regret it, because he found the work connected with both almost equally interesting, but that some such arrangement might be found necessary in the public interest and in the interest of the Empire at no very distant future was, ho thought, a matter which it might be wort!i while to bear in mind.] CABINET CHANGES. LONDON, November 3. 'The Times' anticipates that Lord Morley will remain in the Cabinet, and that Mr Lewie V. Harcourt will become Color.ial Secretary. The 'Daily Mail' says the Government havo decided to create a new Secretary of State and a department to deal with the self-governing Dominions. The present department will deal with the Crown colonies. The iiaper adds that the change is due to the existing organisation proving unsatisfaetoiy to the Dominions, especially to Australia. A LONG MEETING. LONDON, November 3. The Veto Conference held a meeting lasting two hours.