BRITISH POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9185, Issue 9185, 8 April 1910, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

FIRST VETO RESOLUTION. (By Electhic Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) LONDON, April 7. In the House of Commons, Mr Haldano moved the first veto resolution. He agreed that, it was unfortunate to have to introduce written provision into an unwritten Constitution, but when a breach of such magnitude was made, without the Lords.' assurance that it would not be repeated, the members of the House of Commons would be unworthy of their traditions if they failed to deal with the situation. If the Liberals failed to establish a real revising Second Chamber the Conservatives, under the guise of reform, would strengthen the hereditary prinicple._ Mr Austen Chamberlain replied, saying that the Liberals' reform of the Lords was a sham, and was only referred to in order to give Sir Edward Grey and Mr Haldane the shadow of excuse for retaining office.

A FISCAL REFORM MOTION.

AND A FREETRADE AMENDMENT

LONDON, April 7,

Mr Hamilton Bonn ,gavo notice of motion that fiscal reform was necessary owing to foreign tariffs hindering British trade'and aggravating unemployment. Mr Storey seconded the '.motion, and declared that all petty constitutional squabbles were worthless compared with the failing of British manufacturers and the miseries of chronic unemployment. He predicted that the- change would come through the combination of the tariff reformers and British Trades Unions. Sir J. Kemp moved, and Mr J. A. Simon seconded, a Freetrado amendment, which was carricd.by 375 to 202. The Nationalists' abstained from voting.