THE PARLIAMENT BILL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 128, 22 July 1911, Page 5

THE PARLIAMENT BILL.

LORD MORLEY’S ADVICE. By Electric Telegraph..—Copyright. United Press Association. London, July £l. Lord Morlcy, in opening ins spea h on the third reading of the Parliamentary Bill, said the conseqqenr.es ol the Parliament Bill might be giavo wore it intended they should bo grave, but the consequences of rejection were far graver. He desired to see the inevitable Parliamentary political operation carried through without a

social shock. He concluded by declaring that to pass the Bill that night and allow the real Bill to pass bye and bye was not a surrender to the Commons or the Government but to the verdict of the country. Lord Lansdowne replied that Unionists intended to prevent the Government from tampering with the Union until the country could express its view. If, as the Government ct ntonded, the country had changed its mind regarding Homo Rule, why client it of the opportunity of saying so? The Government ought not to be able to do behind tho backs of the pimple what they could not do in their faces. The Unionists’ ultimate goal was a reasonable reconstruction rf the Lords.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, after remarking that Home Rule had twice boon rejected, and asking whether they would contend tiiat ,a definite scheme of Home Rule was before the country at last election, uttered a grave warning against tho abuse of temporary political power. Disaster would await the land, or tho Government, or tho party so led. Lord Willoughby da Brooke insisted that Lord Lansdowne’s amendment wore the irreducible minimum the Unionists would accept. After farther speeches tho Bill, as amended, was read a third time without division.

THE TIMES ON THE SITUATION. London, July 21. The Times states that Lord Lansdowno’s reference to the “materials of an honourable settlement” suggests his readiness to avoid more extreme measures and seek a more pacific isue. If the Government were resolved to carry through this constitutional outrage, there was no course upon to the peers which would not involve grave evils. A charge of cowardice could in nowise be made against them when men were no longer free agents. There was no cowardice in temporary submission with a determination to right the wrong hereafter. UNIONIST LEADERS CONFERRING. London, July 21. The Unionist leaders of both Houses are conferring to-day, and the Unionist poors meet at Lord Lansdowne’s house in the afternoon. The feeling among Unionists during the past twenty-four hours has hardened to a man in favour of opposing the Government’s policy at whatever cost.

THE CREATION OF PEERS

London, July 21

The Times declares that the Press Association’s statement that the King has consented to tire creation of peers represents at any rate a growing belief in political circles. Mr F. D. A eland, speaking at West Somerset, declared that tire Parliament Bill would pass within three weeks or a fortnight without the creation of peers. The Lords might require a rope to assist them climbing down, but whatever the length of the rope they still had a considerable distance to drop. (Received 22, 11.0 a.m.) London, July 21. Private meetings of the Conservative Party have taken place at Mr Balfour’s house, and of Conservative peers at Lord Lansdowne’s house. Public opinion is much perplexed over the situation.