Second Edition BRITISH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 93, 2 December 1911, Page 6

Second Edition BRITISH POLITICS.

SUGGESTED NAVAL LOAN

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December 1. The newspapers deny that any naval loan is intended, excepting one covering tiie cost of tiie Rosjth Works.' i ' THE INSURANCE BILL. , Loudon, December 1. In the House cf Commons the report stage of the {insurance Bill was concluded. Four hundred and seventy Government amendments were passed with the assistance of the guillotine. Mr. Bonai Law, Loader of the Opposition, declared that an outrage was opi ag perpetrated in order that t*ere a in.ill* be. no obstacle to Horae Rule. If the Opposition challenged the divisions ihr- House would have to sit until 7.30 on Saturday evening. Mr. Lloyd-oeorge said that the Bill was supposed to lie nonconten tious. The Opposition left the House in a body when the division was called. INSURANCE BILL. (Received 2, 8 a.m.) London, December 1. Five hundred and twenty-eight thousand protests against the Insurance Bill have reached Commoners. (Received 2, 9.45 a.m.) London, December ] .- Sir Edward Grey has written to Lord Lyiton that there will bo bettor prospects of enfranchising six million women by an amendment to the Government Bill moved by a Cabinet Minister than of -enfranchising a million by the Conciliation Bill but while disorders similar to those of the 21st and at City Temple continue, it would bo a waste of time to actively support the women’s cause. The General Federation of Trade Unions lias strongly protested against separate administrators of tiie insurance fund in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. .The leaders fear a disintegration of trade unionism by encouraging Scottish and We]sir committees to insist on controlling their own husin'es. Medical men declare that Mr. Lloyd-George’s proffered amendments are utterly inadequate.