BRITISH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 137, 2 August 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE VETO BILL. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association. London, August i. It is unlikely tho House ol Commons will deal with the Parlia.mci. I Bill before next week. Tho Times states aho Government is in a dclcmma owing to tho si in ;iion in tho Lords. It must «Thor rend the Bill to tho Lords without any warranty that it will pass, or torllnC-h create new peers. Lord Lansdowne, writing to Lord Camperdown, who has announced his preparedness to vote for the Government, if tho action would prevent tho creation cf peers, stated he recommended his supporters to abstain from voting. Personally, bo would not vote with the Government when the Parliament Bill was returned. THE INSURANCE BILL. London, August 1. Mr Lloyd-Gonrge, in the House of Commons, said his amendments to the Insurance Bill would remove the fears that hospitals would be affected financially. Large numbers of poor now dependent on hospitals would come under the insurance fund, while further relief .would be afforded by an extension of sanatoria.

MISCELLANEOUS. (Received 2, 9.35 a.m.) London, August 1. Tho House of Commons, in committee, rejected the clause making miners’ baths at pitheads compulsory. Mr Ramsay Macdonald does not seek re-election to the secretaryship of the Labour Party. Mr A. Henderson will probably be appointed.