IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13145, 29 November 1906, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE PLURAL VOTING BILL.

protest against: the .closure. - the•''hudberseielp;/ seat.': ■■ ,' " ; Uiutecl Press Association—Per Electric telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 27. Mr Balfour protested /against Sir H. Campbell-Banpeiminiiii's, applying the closure to ihePlural Votings Billi,- which is .really a great disfranchising Bill. The closure is avowedly aimed at a igmall section of the Hotis6. terEraser's candidature for Huddersfield, declaredthat vGoyernmeiit's policy ;at Home and m the : colonies";was to the: welfare sof - the general ;c6mmuinity.: Mr 'Churchill, :in supporting Mr Shirwell, the Liberal candidate, Seclared that the result of the election would importantly affect the political questions of the] hour. If the Government lived he hoped it would give the people access to the land, and abolish for ever the House of Lords' veto. Tie Liberals would not promise/but would give old age pensions. Miss Pankhurst, 'Mrs. Martell, and other. suffragettes aire opposing Mi- ShirweU with amazing; vigour.. Dr Clifford, ini a letter to the ; Ptess, violently assails the Episcopal oligarchy; in the House of Lords. He declares that the amendments" to the Education Bill must be rejected, or the Nonconformists may resort to passive resistance to an extent that will embarrass the Government. Dr Clifford urges, the creation of 300 Radical peers, or the formation of a second Chamber on colonial lines.

: THE LORDS AND THE PEOPLE. PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS OUT. ; Received 10.30 p.m., November 28th. ■ s ' ■ LONDON, November 28. Mr Arthur Aclandr who presided at an emergency meeting of the general committee of the National Liberal Federation at Caxton Hall, Westminster, urged the House of Commons not to waste a> day redebating any Bill but return thd Bills to the House of Lords, one by one without! debate, The remedy must be great and drastic to be effective and final. Sir H. Campbet'-Bannerman; wrote that the Education Bill as amended was of no use to them or the.country. It was apparent that the Hoiise of Lords presumed to know the country's mind better than the country or the members of the House of Commons did.-.-' Sir K. Campbell-Bannerman added : "Of oiie thing you cap; rest: assured: we can have no tampering with the main principles of the Bill. If within those limits; without- injury to education; an . arrange-,, ment is possible: well and gpo'd; if not; it is for us to see in this- and other a wayis fducd wherebythe wishes' of ithe country shall be made to prevail; but the battle will continue until the, House of Lords is greatly modified or annihilated."' It was resolved, amidst enthusiasm, to urge the rejection of the amendments and the abolition during the Parliament of the Lords' veto. "