BRITISH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 6, 16 December 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

NAVAL DISCIPLINE BILL. (Received 16, 9.40 a.m.) London, December 15. The Naval Discipline Bill has h..en road a third time in the House of Lords. THE FINANCE BILL. London, December 15 The Speaker withheld bis certificate in connection with the Final <?•» Bill, on the ground that clauses were attached to it giving the Lords tho right to reject it. THE INSURANCE BILL. London, December 15. A meeting of two thousand doctors at Manchester resolved to refuse to act under the Insurance Bill. They favoured forming a national medical union to safeguard tho professional interests. FEMALE SUEFRAGE. (Received 16, 8.5 a.m.) London, December 15. Mr. Asquith, in the course his reply to the National League deputation*, said that if a referendum of men alone were taken the wona” would resent the verdict. Personally ho was convinced that giving the franchise to women would be a mistake of a very disastrous kind; He Felt that it was time for those holding strong views to take off their "■oats and put the case against suffrage cogently before tbo public.