IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 11 October 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

(By Electric Telegraph.-—Copyright.)

(United Preys Association.J London, October 10

'Writing to a correspondent, iCTI Ramsay MacDonald, *v!. i 5 ., states that when the House of Commons meets the Labour Party will adopt t.ae Insurance Lid. His influence will be thrown in that scale. He wanted one or two amendments, though, and the party would strive to get them ; hut it was a great -mistake for the public to feel assured that the party were apposed to the Bill, except twoi or tnrne members.

A private conference between Mr Lloyd-G Gorge and representatives oi the Medical Association and friendly societies is understood to have arrived at a compromise regarding objections to the insurance Bill.

Lord Haldane, speaking at Aberdeen, said that what Mr Balfour wanted was something to supersede the House of Commons. Lord Haldane wanted a small workable Chamber a second mirror of the opinions of the people. Woman’s suffrage ami devolution in all parts of tiie kingdom wore inevitable. Lord Haldane, referring to the veto, said tiie King made no bargain. The Government Had not asked him for any pledge. Tiie King said: “What the whole country decides, that will 1 accepr.” .When the Lords threatenon rejection the King wisely handed to his Ministers his assent to the creation of peers.