IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

(Tress Assn. — By Telegraph.— Copyright.) LONDON, November 17. In the House of Commons eighteen clauses of the Insurance Bill were passed in four minutes to aid the. closure.' The majority of the Opposition left the Chamber.

Tlie grand committee concludes the unemployment clauses of the Bill. In consequence of Mr Lloyd George's unsatisfactory reply to the suggested amendment to the Bill, the Royal Collego .of Surgeons has decided not to assist the insurance scheme.

A meeting of the Parliamentary Labor party, while welcoming the adult suffrage reiterated the demand for the extension to women.

The Master of Elibank, speaking at Walhamv Green, -warned the Unionists that- thVpropbsed extension of the franchise was no windoAv-dressing suggestion. The Government were determined to pass the Bill, which was in' accor-, dance with the democratic demands of the country. Mr Bonar Law, at Leeds, declared that tlie Uriicmists would strenuously resist the Welsh Disestablishment, which had nothing to "support it except prejudice and bigotry. He said the^Thsurance Bill was passing the Commons mechanically, and --vital interests of the, whole cPmmunity were being sacrificed to clear the road for the Home Rule discussion. Further, he said, that the necessity for retaining the Nationalists! support was the sole cause of the failure of last year's conference. The Nationalists neither knew, nor cared about British political questions,, therefore it was intolerable that they should dominate British politics. This view was held by the Asquith Government. ** A 'reformed Second Chamber was probably to arrive after Home Rule passes. The recent industrial unrest ripened the fruit of the seed sown during 'the Budget campaign, when the poor were led to expect a golden age with the promotion of social * reform. Without tariff reform, he concluded, this would only' increase the number of poor and create unemployment. . (Receivec^Noveniber 18, 9.30 a.m.) ai _ LONDON, November 17. ihe Premier, replying to a suffragette deputation, declined to introduce a measure conferring the franchise on the same terms as to men, because he did not believe it was demanded in the country's , interest. The Government wouhr yield •■ if women persuaded the majority of the House of Commons to give the vote. The. deputation is dissatisfied, and announce that a demonstration will be made in Parliament Square on Tuesday. Sir Edward Grey, in the House of Commons, said that Miss Malecha was Undoubtedly a Britisher in Britain, but was a. Russian in Russia. Therefore Britain was unable to interfere in the matter of her arrest.