PEERS AND COMMONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 201, 11 August 1911, Page 1

PEERS AND COMMONS.

THE LORDS’ DILEMMA.

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London, Aug. 10.

In the censure debate in the House of Lords the Marquis of Lansdowne declared that if the creation of peers was odious to Lord Crewe it was equally odious to the King. The Government ought not to force His Masjety’s hands merely out of petulancy and vindictiveness.

Lord Halsbury emphasised that he would have moved the rejection of the third reading of the bill but assumed that Lord Lansdowne would stick to his amendments. He repudiated the idea that he had entered the campaign against Lord Lansdowne, for whom he had respect, even affection. The Archbisphop of York said he would support the bill. The policy of insisting upon the amendments was distasteful to the Sovereign and against the interests of the House.

Lord St. Aldwyn declared that he would never vote to place the King in the cruel position of having to create unlimited peers. The division to-day on the Governments to the Parliament Bill would make clear that the provisional order of bills was not included in the term public bills.

RESULT OF DIVISION UNCERTAIN.

(Received 11, 9.30 a.m.)

London, Aug. 10.

There is some uncertainity as to the result of the division in the House of Lords whether Lord Halsbury’s followers will be able to outvote the Government.

Last night’s debate failed to secure any accession to the stalwarts’ ranks.

THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE

(Received 11, 10.45 a.m.) London, Aug. 10.

Lord Morley, replying to Lord Lansdowne, said that if the Bill w r ere defeated, sufficient peers would be created to guard against its future defeat

THE GOVERNMENT WINS.

PEERS ABANDON THE AMENDMENTS.

In the House of Lords, the division on the Parliament Bill resulted in a majority of seventeen for the Government.