BRITISH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 94, 4 December 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE INSURANCE BILL; u London, December 2. A conference of two hundred hospitals carried a resolution that existing treatment cannot be maintained if their income is diminished, duo to the Insurance Bill. Sir Henry Burdott estimates that the voluntary hospitals will lose half their incomes. The newspapers indicate that the House of Lords will pass the Insurance Bud unamended, thus declining responsibility of the details. It is expected they will reject the Naval Prize Bill, embracing the Declaration of London, on the ground that it is too important to He rushed. Lord Lansdowne, addressing 1240 delegates of the Liberal and Unionist Council at Derby, said the Government was embarked on a frenzied career of revolutionary legislation. Having broken tiie Constitution, they were forcing revolutionary measures which the country had not considered, and had not approved. They were guilty of gross and intolerable usurpation of power, and scattered public money lavishly. They multiplied appointments, and created a bureaucracy more numerous and more arrogant than the country had ever known. Lord Lansdowne believed the principle of contributory insiirance was just and wise, but the Bill alarmed many important interests. He commented on Home Rule, especially Federal Home Rule, and said Mr. Birrell had been suggesting that a federation would ultimately include the dominions. It was absurd to think the great dominions would come in at the tail end of the hunt into a scheme prepared to suit Mr. Redmond’s’ dictation. • " . . ,'U;, The first duty of the Unionists Was to restore the' Constitution, and to continue Mr. Balfour’s Irish policy. THE LORDS’ POSITION.

(Received 4, 8.45 aim.) London, December 3. The Liberal weekly, “The Nation,” considers that the House, of deprived of its powers "Of ;■ revision-; The Insurance Rill, which is a 1 arliament .Bill, will he reserved, and they will be forced to race through its vast complications in a few hours. This is an unfair way of working.