HOME POLITICS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10761, 8 May 1911, Page 4

HOME POLITICS.

'THE VETO. [By Ei,K.f"fi:ic Tk.i.i:<;i:ai'ii- ('opyiiioui'. | <Pet: Piti-.s.s Assoruno.v.; Hcecivcd May 7. at 5.5 p.m. Loudon. .May 0. Lord Selborne. speaking at. Barnstaple di-clar-d that A ton da;, v.ould ve the introduction <>: the alternative plan lor lie- r..-.-o!i,:rucli..:i ..i :.]■'<• llou-e ..f Lords. wiu-relA ir rli-Vo,- a .ah, e,„lld 1,0 -.-;■! ;!iat both pani.-, were i,..t fairly IVpre-ellto,-; ili ti'e iio;e.e oi hold,. The p .w.-r -.: lie- -., to would |,<M lie abolished. ,'„;;. ,„■>,-. i-ion -..odd he mad-fe]-,-nce, on ordinary and a r--i- reuditiu i'-r "crave oue-.tions. B-ceived Mav fi. at -.5.r.0 a.m. London. May 7. Mr .Wniith emphatically d-nied that there is a difference of opinion in the Cabinet regarding Home Rule. Me de- : dared thai land purchase in Ireland and conferring on Ireland the benefits of the old-age pensions .and invalidity insurance had .strengthened the material ties between the two countries. r.-ndcnTig separation unthinkable. He concluded that no Cabinet had ever been more steadily united on great issues. HOME TRUSTS. Received May S, at 8.5 a.m. Loudon, May 7. ?>lr Asquith, at Manchester, declared that the Government was firmly- carrying out the work entrusted to it at the general election, and that had the party been master in its own house, primary education would ere now have rested genuinely on a national basis, and evils of the licensing sj'stem would have been removed or mitigated.: He said he hoped that Mr Lloyd-George's great insurance system would be canvassed, revised, and perfected by the-joint loyal efforts of all men of all creeds and parties, Referring-to the Veto, he declared that -the Unionists had abandoned their attitude of passive resistance to all change. The Tories had, in fact, thrown the House of Lords to the wolves, and, seized with revolutionaryfervor, they favored proposals for reducing the, Commons to the level.of a debating society. No Liberal statesman ruled out tho possible use of the referendum as a conceivable instrument for solving an otherwise insolvable situation ; but were they going to make representation merely gladiatorial, saying to the Commons: "You were pawns on the chess-board; whatever you decided must return to us for ratification or disapproval. If so, you will no longer get -the same men to represent you, and you are ■ destroying representative government." Ifc was tolerably certain that" it would be possible to get Parliament Bill through -the House of Lords to-morrow without the least difficulty of any sort, if they would ■agree that it should not apply to Home I Rule. . '