GO TO THE KING!

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1128, 8 March 1910, Page 2

GO TO THE KING!

RAMSAY MAODONALD'S ADVICE

TO ASQUITH

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO

THE LORDS.

THE VETO AND THE BUDGET

DRIVEN INTO THE WILDERNESS.

aY BLEOTBIO TELBGBAPH — OOPYBIQHT. [PER PRESS ABSOCIATION.J Londonj March. 7. Mr Ramsay Maedonald, M.P., a great Socialist and ex-Ohainnan of the Parliamentary Labour Party, speaking at Caxton Hall, appealed to Premier Asquith not to waste time in sending his resolutions to the House of Lords, who would decline to 4iscuss them. Mr Asquith would then be unable to ask the King for guarantees, because the Lords would reply that they were prepared to discuss the Bill when they knew the detailed proposals. If Mr Asquith humiliated and checkmated them, and sent the Bill on its weary way to the Lords, the Liberals would get just such another thrashing when the appeal wds made to the country as the Tories got in 1906. "Let Mr Asquith introduce the Bill straight into the Lords, then go to the King. There would not even be need for anotiher election. The Budget should pass before an appeal is made to the country."

lii the House of- Commons, the Bill introduced by the Hon. John Burns for taking the next British census on April % 1911, was read the first time. (Received Marctk 8, 8.5 a.m.).. London, March 7. Mr Phillip Snowden, Labour member for Blackburn, speaking at Cardiff, said -that the country was not ripe for the abolition of the House of Lords. Any Liberal Party attempting to make reconstruction a I dominant election issue would be driven into the wilderness for an- • ofeher generation. Any reform of the House of Lords would make the second Chamber infinitely stronger against democratic- progress. The j Labour Party, be said, wants the i Budget.

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