THE FATE OF THE BUDGET.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 13 November 1909, Page 5

THE FATE OF THE BUDGET.

LORDS WHO FAVOR REJECTION

LONDON, Nov. 12. The Duke of Argyll, speaking at the Conservative Conference in Dundee, said that if the House of Lords rejected the Budget with a strong protest against its provisions and a declaration that the House of Lords were not responsible for it, the issue would be broad and straight between tariff reform and the Budget. Th© general result of tariff reform according to the experience of all lands, would be the keeping up and steady-' ing of wages ana the prevention or oscillation: in the demand for labour. Lord Ayebury, on being, interviewed, said that personally he thought it advisable for the House of Lords to amend,, instead of reject the Budget, because it contained marfyl old taxes which they had no desire to disturb; but the effects of the Budget would be so disastrous that as Lord Lansdowne proposed to meet it by a negative he was prepared to support the rejection.