THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 April 1910, Page 4

THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

VEIO RESOUTULNS CA R U lED. i iOVERN'M ENT'S .MAJORITY—IO6 | I’I;U I'JIESS ASSOCIATION --COPYRIGHT, j LONDON, April 5. lu the House of Commons Mr Lyi telum administered ii stinging rohuki to Mr Winston Churchill ior his mi generous mu! unseemly (tisln in ol iniI>utinu to the King a policy which tin King was unable to ilciiy. He sain lhero was not the shadow of a fotiu datum for .Mr Churchill's suggestion) that there was an .alliance li.’tvveei tho Radicals and the 'Throne. lie added that in I he democratic constitution granted Austialia the second elianibei was recognised. Only last year tie Government were so conscious of n> necessity that it imposed a second chamber, with the right to reject money Kills, upon South Africa. t',,l. Seely, replying, said ili<■ Govi !,inn-ii! had ii"! imposed t lie '-< eoiid ehaiiiher, but South Alnca herself !iad propose'!.! a second chamber. Had G..v el'liilielil attempted to set lip a second chamber iv-. nibling the Lords no selfgoverning c ihmy would have emltnvc it. No colony would give the power t. a idiamber iiased on hereditary prince plies. If the >t'ominous suliniltl. d to the l.oids pretensions he was com (id.-lit that the self-governing Ho minions would think the Knglish peopic were lin'd to manage their own affairs. Mr (: lbs.m Row is sharply criticised Hie lesolllt ions. Mr Roiiar haws made telling summary up for the < >|i| u>sit ion. Mr Lloyd George concluded the debate and declared that it would he tetter that the Liberals should In* 'nl ' ! . .nice for a decad-' rather than any lunger submit to the holds inn! that ing bills sent up tu them from the C"iiiinons. ff the people really wished iv\olul i-aiary im a air -■ the holds vetowas as ns. less as the King’s veto during the hreiich revolution. Sir Francis Finlay's amendment was rejected and Mr Asquith’s motion was agreed to I)v 558 to 252.