BRITISH POLITICS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 February 1907, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

[Umrat raxss'.;AiapcivmoN.— Copi- ■ ; : . bight.} "Jr.- THE ■ lfeEfill^-P±BLiAiMEN'*y J-'A -. A, -LONDON, Saturday.. .'■'.-' -Mr Harold Cox, M.P; for Preston;-. 7-7- moved an amendment .to the .Address, iri' the House "61 Commons, d«claring7it desirable, that the Colonial Cohfei'erice -{Hciuia aißchss tnattafs^f iiHSbrtailc^ to -gg3 v^4oHiei-j niof 6 ;f tUl^r-^pJiiUy-the questionyOF participating^iri .the cost 76f defending the Empire. 7 ,Mr Balf qur said 7:we . ought npt to trfeat Ttho^matter in/a bargaining' spirit. . 7 He : Tdid;,.n6fe'TbeUeve that their naval -. - e»tinwte's>*ould be diminished by ft. '.-,' ' jaHHifia-ii.ihey lMtth6;*sl{-governini „ .- • gabfligß-. ' r iSVHU6 -the - Sbionies j : ifu-ijligl _.tUe}lmfiefiflTconn§ctien, requited greai strehgth.TandLTsecurity, yet the connec . tion'involyed them" in some dangers ow-'•-^^.-^?i^lilr«-Tattß'MWj|Wßfia pili- , Uci."»l many points not directly eenM?Hlng tfre It ¥rfts, InipSlsiWe tß.Ts6riauSly.fiSS--. -.fee, etjionlja t^.*6tl l^jiejr ffb«ih. jsomejjotjy ..«fr<s'. npu.'fl ; y [y yfenfcWfrfor* possible, prohosal' wohld • '■%' l-y-hftio'Tjrrange- .a treaty under which, the :7;7^9i4?*. ; wo3di transfer their' ship's to : ."y'*7 lmperial .control ihythe event -of Im- -- -.pOTUiI-- complications, though he'earnest•'fyivdewScatedreven pressing that. While 7 .not abandoning hope of closer political tedatliMis; between tha ■MotheyJand t and l iColdffii<S4thfe ideal. -iwa&.iiof now ih it..-„ '-TSf loose, organisation, of _the . .. tlire haifc advantages arid'diiadyan- :.- fages, b"pt-;lie- Was ,sure it .be ,betfo to rely ron. ..voluntary^ assistance thap T BWmJJt-Jfci-YO it a rigid and involiin-.y^Vm-tmamf\:y.:. . - ».-. ... .. --. !.'y ' y'&t.J&aW^y^ilwi^yljo say: — "We- *: ■'.- Tgfclvinore; 'out of colonial and '-.--* lw**r^yr' 'Ah; .■ „*y , . ~c«i"vo i . : 5-^-jCpßvrionc enthusiasm than we ;»hpuldybjr ; fliiy;.liard' and fast organisayAtiwi'i mm). :■'■'■ ? -AAi.M i .W^&jMv^i\ aessritea Mr ''■■■■ r WW*sss& *» v ' "'By proIWtldr^olitffiar Wisdom. Though the seiryices mutually rendered to each other by the -Motherland ■ and the colonies were very great> it would be -very .... wrong to :draw invidious comparison's of the benefits . reciprocally interchanged within thpT Empire.. This -vvas not a buPaiTjE»H#bsltioni -but- wjis based ou waS.jafcA ,£ aS&te.y^'Ehov Motherland • jdecjihefl •; to i.: T ??ggTle .^ariff^aigain; "with he^jchildren < fe?P« c tine*Uie--gi'e<jjs6 amount of iaiHIf^II OO^ MbVxWP th.ey-^Souia-.BiakS, pr ,s!fe.,tiJ,.couimel ; ce-. treaties.. Without -the colonies we. should still be. compelled to niaintaiu the fleet. But while he depre- . cated,, any-Jiard commercial bargain, he i that it was the duty of the colonies / ..'-•;^ tpT contribute- as occasion arose to our t ' .7repto'o% :^e|e"nsise weds. We make no T demands'- whatever. Thoy- give vbluntari/'T'ly,"TwßTaccept gladly, and we are con--7 tenfrxto -wait for the solid broadening 77,h«fveat. of future years. ;T 7;The, ameiidmenl \a#§ Withdrawn; y'«r*pß;^f6SS^., generally, applaud Mr - TBalfour's Vnd Mr Churchill's policy oohcernihg" Imperial defence. 7-Lord Tweedmouth, the First Lord of the Admiralty, informed a deputation from the ' Trades Union Congress that he was unable to transfer certain class-es-of work done in the Dockyards, from skilled labourers, to mechanic*. - „Mr Bftlfoul', addressing the National Uniod Conservative. Assbciatiori, said _he »aW utUUistakeable sigfls of a coales7C|Bce 3? Unionist views jB the direction ..M-aisafeTsduhU afldsober policy, bf .-y psfcal. fetorfe based on. the grounds of .. pße.abSphrto' necessity for. enlarging the : •j?3??si of taxation,^Jhe vital' heed of safe- - gXSpSS ;-:tbTeir infair'cbmp'eti'tioh, \&% ..need of secuhng the great cblofiial rilaW .kets-oftherfnture. Mr Balfonr declared - that ;ther Government had no. construe-T-tiye policy, and therefore threatened the House of -Lords^. but the Government wasynot possessed of the moral position to enable it to revolutionise our historic .constitutiohf ■„-'.- .-.-'■ .^Mr^ Dicfcenson's Women's Su£frag> Bill Bill 'has been read a first time.