IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143550, 15 July 1911, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

PEERS CLOSE THE DOOR. AND AWAIT RESULTS. By Electric JTclegraph. —Copyright. (Received June 15, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Lord Newton’s amendment to the Veto Bill has been withdrawn. It was coldly received by both parties. The door is now apparently finally closed on compromise, as the Unionist peers prefer to test the Government’s powers to force their scheme upon the House of Lords, The 'report stage of the Bill has been completed, and Lord. Lansdowne’s and Cromer’s amendments retained. Lord Morley asserted that the Lords had amended the Bill so freely as to make it just the Bill they liked. Lord Lansdowne said that if all the amendments were inserted, still it was a very dangerous measure. The third reading will be* taken on July 20, and the House of Commons, will consider the amendments on July 24, when it is expected that Mr. Asquith will intimate what he will do if the- peers resist.