LORDS' DEBATE RESUMED.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12710, 1 December 1909, Page 3

LORDS' DEBATE RESUMED.

SPEECH BY LOTS MOBISt. NJ^SO, »|£« . wmm mons tha* ta^ e fi4i lat1 at their decisions tUer tSceivcdNov.3o ) li:3sp.m) ' v .London, rwv. &>, Lord iiorley, couu.um.g, ;""»■ I,™ °ti?<£A .<* «■"■-.'?? useful end quoted authorities to sh^that the House ot Commons nad sole- control of taxing. „ Kenlying to the argument that the GoveKnt had no mandate, he conSd ■*»»•*■^ wJiole «■*/" ""I Sou ad HOC. The referendumand mandate were a complete departuie from. the wholesome usages or tfce couhtry: A7nen an .elector wen,t to : the poll he was voting tor a House to' make laws and watch the-adminis-tration- and support the party - tor • a certain number of years in Parham Lbrd Morley continued : Such a Parliament cannot be fettered.. in any matters wherewith it thinks fat to deal. They electors can demand a financial policy. *hey. condemned, ior example, "some day tanft. retorm, and oomes hy dismissing him. >>Nat E cannot do is % plebiscite break into the middle of a fully placed executive scheme for supplying the £eeds of the year, threequarters ; of ™Mch year by the way have now e^ irired The electors must trust those W hom they elected, and must acquiesce in the action of their representatives who had the whole c?^. before them all the facts and possibilitaes of them fixed by the estimates and who decided upon ways and means of satisfying them. "The amendmentis no rampart against socialism, ._ If the angcrous tide of socialism is running, is it wise or sagacious to ■ nsk_ a change, however unfounded?;. Sou are straining the constitution as champions of the rich against the poor; that is what it comes to m plaiu electioneering, language. tL© pointed out that the only thing which could justify the amendment was the 3>st proposals by a demented House of Commons. Such a case had not yet arisen, r There was something worse than a dummy House ptLords, namely, a dummy House of Commons He warned the Opposition that the more triumphant the maiority of the Lords compared with the majority of the Commons, the more blazing in. the public ©ye woxdd be the constdtutioual outrage.