BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1796, 17 May 1912, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

DISESTABLISHMENT AND OTHER QUESTIONS. BY ELECTRIC "TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. (Received. May 17, 10.20 a.m.) London, May 16. The Premier stated thoy might assume, while the Irish Disestablishment Act was unrepealed, it was -not contrary to the laws of morality anel honesty -to deal similarly with Wales. Mr Cave replied that because-Par-liament was .onco unjust _ there was no reason to repeat an injustice. - 'The Premier declined to facilitate Mr Griffiths Boscawen's Welsh Religious Census Bill. The Parliamentary Committee pf the Trade Union Congress approves of the general principles of the Osborne Bill, but opposed the exemption clause.

AN IMPERIAL SENATE. (Received May 17, 11 a.m.) London, May 16. Premier Asquith, replying to' Mr Norton Griffiths. Unionist M.-P. for Wednesbury, said he was unable to appoint a committee from the Members of the House of Commons signing the" petition presented to him on April 27, 1910, to take steps to further lube creation of an Imperial Senate. „

Mr Asquith, speaking in the Commons, indicated that the financial concessions in the Welsh Disestablishment Bill will be taken in committee. The Manchester Guardian says inhere is much uneasiness among Liberals regarding Disestablishment and secularisation. There is hardly one person outside the Welsh' members who has not a strong desire for substantial amendment.