ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12770, 16 April 1910, Page 3

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

AN-- EXCITED -SCENE. PRICE OF THE IRISH SUPPORT. THE PREMIER TAUNTED. (Received April 15, 11.15 p.m.) " London, April 15. Meanwhile j prior to oue of these <Hvisious, Mr Asquith was ruled out ot order on Mr Balfour's intervention. There bad been use of the guillotine rules, And the time allotted did not -permit of the introduction of controversial statements regarding "tho Government's int&ution under, certain hypothetical-circumstances. 'An opportunity now presented itself "on the; introduction of the Bill, and Ma- As-' quith, in ft packod, tense, and eagerly expectant House, made his deferred statement. "If the House of Lordii does not accept the Government's policy," be said, "our duty will be to. advise the- Crown that steps are ueedcd to give the policy statutory effect in this Parliament, and in the event of our inability to secure sucli effect we will, resign or dissolve. In no ease would we. recommend a dissolution except upon conditions securing that the judgment of the people, "'> oxprcsse<r,at the election, would b-> carried 'into law in the next Pmliinent." (Prolonged Ministerr) cheers.) . '■'„'■ .Mr Balfour in turn was given. a great. rweptioji. Ho described the statemeut as' of the first importance. U was the. culmination of the uegotiu; tions la? ensuring tlio-.acceptaiu-i>*"<u the Budget by the :Natioualists, in in? hope of obtaining Homo Rule, and giving tlfc^oyernment a Bill whereon it* •reputation was staked. The Government was paying aji extravagant-price. In wliat position Had' Mr Asquith put. the Crown'" I.'1 .' He conceived that in au extreme case tho .Premier might ask for guarantees, or in other, words fov the creatidir of peers, but the"idei of anticipating that advice by months by announcing that in unknown and ■ iiii'daturiniiied dmiinstauccs ho would suggest what was nothing short of' the ' destruction of the constitution was beyond the. idea of duty of any of his predecessors. (Cheers.) He had successfully 'bought tHe Irish vote for the Budget, but the. paid was" tho

price at tlie dignity of his office. (Renewed cheering.) Immediately thereafter the. Speaker declared the House adjourned, the Ministerialists again cheering. Mr S. Wilson shouted, "Cheer John Redmond, your master; he won." . Amid ans;rv protests and cries ot ■"o«k»r," Mr J. Redmond stepped oxcitt'diy towards Mr Wilson, but sovlji al members intercepting, restrained "i'ho Times" describes Mr Asquith as at Mr Redmond's bidding drinking tho cup of "humiliation to the dregs. It «ns monstrous that the Premier should put pressure on the King to give him power to coorco the second chamber by tho threat of a wholesale creation of peers. The Crown was to be deliberately dragged in the mire of party conflict, and. the King was to be subjected to embarrassment and indignity such as no sovereign had endnred since the revolution of 1688. Sir Edward Carson's argument arose from Mr Churchill's opening remark that if tlie Conservative party purposes giving self-government to Ireland, thfi Lords would be pliable and not oppose it.