IMPERIAL POLITICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14056, 13 November 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE DECLINED. LORDS AND THE BUDGET. Press Aasociation-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 10.20 p.m., Nov. 12th. LONDON, Nov. 12. The Earl of Crewe in reply to a deputation of fourteen members of the Forward Suffrage Union within the Women's Liberal Federation, said it was impossible to make tho women's vote a plank of the election. Dwelling on the sharp differences between the Government and Parliament ho remarked that if the question ,was put in the Commons as it now stands, women's suffrage would be largely beaten. Changes in those now holding office in the party wore certainly involved in l making the question a definite issue at the election'and the party would suffer a distinct loss of strength. The Duke of Argyll speaking at. the Conservative Conference at;' Dundee, said that if the Lodds rejected tho Budget with a strong protest against its provisions and the• doclafatioii- that the Lords were not responsible for itj the issue would be broad and!" straight between tariff reform aud the Budget. • Lord Avebury on being interviewed said he personally' thought it advisable that tho House "of. Lords should amend instead of reject -the Budget, because it contained many old taxes which there was uo desire to disturb, but the effects of the Budget would be so disastrous that, as Lord Lansdowne proposed to meet', it;by. a> direct ■ negative, lie was prepared to support the rejection. . ' '.'' '*■'