BRITISH POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9183, 6 April 1910, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

MR CHURCHILL REBUKED.

MR'ASQUITH'S RESOLUTIONS CARRIED.

(By Electric Telegraph—Co.pstbicjht.) lPeh Phesh association..' LONDON, April 5. In the House of Commons the Hon. Alfred Lyttclton administered a stinging rebuke to the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill for his ungenerous and unseemly fashion of imputing to the King a policy which the King was unable to deny. The fact was that there was not a shadow of foundation for Mr Churchill's suggestion of an alliance between the Radicals and the Throne. ' In ■ the Democratic Constitution granted to Australia the rights of the Second Chamber wore recognised. Only last year when the Government -\yas so conscious of its necessity that it imposed a Second Chamber with the right to reject Money Bills upon South Africa. Colonel Sceley, in replying, said the Government had not imposed, but South Africa herself had proposed the Second Chamber. Had the Government attempted to set up a Second Chamber resembling the House of Lords no self-govern-ing Colony would have endured it, and no Colony" would give power to a Chamber based on the hereditary principle. If the House of Commons submitted to the Lords' pretensions the self-governing Dominions would think the English people not fit to manage their own affairs. Mr Gibson Bowles sharply criticised the resolutions.

Mr Bonar Law made a telling summing up for the Opposition. Mr Lloyd-George concluded the debate, and declared that- it would be better that the Liberals should be out of office a decade than longer submit to the House of Lords mutilating the Bill. If the people really wished for revolutionary measures, the Lords' veto was as useless as the King's veto during the French revolution. Mr Finlay's amendment was rejected, and Mr As'quith's motion agreed to by 358 to 252.