THE BRITISH BUDGET.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIV, Issue 10315, 30 November 1909, Page 4

THE BRITISH BUDGET.

[Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.)

Received November 30, at 8.5 a.m

i London, November 30. Mr. Herbert Samuel, speaking at Paddington, emphasised the difference between the rejection of the Finance -Bill and the throwing out of other Bills. One might regret the rejection of the Licensing or the one-man-one-vote Bill, but the Government could at least continue. On the other hand, a Finance Bill of some kind must be passed every year, or the whole process of administration would stop. Therefore, if the House of Lords could establish a claim to refuse the passage of a Finance Bill, it meant that they could make and unmake Parliaments and Governments whenever they wished. This was a usurpation of the prerogative of the Sovereign, whose right it was, on the advice of his Ministers, to determine the hour of dissolution. Mr Samuel added that the Government would accept no compromise or bargain from the House of Lords in I connection with the Budget.