IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14153, 12 March 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Press Association—By Telegrapb-CopyrigL THE VETO RESOLUTIONS. LONDON, March 10. The Unionist peers are considering : proposal whereby, when the veto reso lutions reach them, the House of Lord, will suggest that they be referred to : joint committee of both Houses, witl Lord Rosebery's resolution. Mr Illingworth has been re-electec unopposed. PRESENT FROM NEW ZEALAND. Mr Lloyd George lias received an illuminated address and a greenstone paper knife from his Welsh admirers in New Zealand. CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES. Tile Civil Service estimates amount to £60,008,102 compared with actual grants last session* cf £62,883,302. They include £14,064,477 for education, £9,220,000 for the development I 1 und, and £40,000 for the Prince of Wales' visit to South Africa. THE NAVAL PROGRAMME. LONDON, March 10. The naval programme includes the cost of establishing a. mobilisation department and the nc-w Navv War Council. THE ESTIMATES. THE GOVERNMENT CENSURED. LONDON, March 11. The publication of the estimates has disclosed that the Government are only making supplies for six weeks in stead of for a period long enough to cover the session as usual. In the House of Commons Mr Chamberlain asked for an explanation, and Mr George replied that the Government were reverting to the practice which was in operation before 1836, because it was desirable that the House should keen control over the Executive since the Government did not deem it expedient tv arm the executive witli funds which w< u!d make it practically independent- of the Commons" at a critical time. Mr Chamberlain characterised the plan as a shabby manoeuvre. The Government wore holding office by threads that might be snapped at any moment, and were striving to leave the greatest financial confusion behind them. Mr Hugn Cecil declared that it was clear that the Government intended, at a later s t^ l ge, of the session, if turned out- of oinoe, to ask the House to refuse the Crown supplies. Such a course had not been taken since Charles the First. The Government was defiicrniiijr to wreck the Consiituti;:." at ali hazards.