BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8203, 6 August 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

TRADES DISPUTES BILL. Received August 5, 4.41 p.m. LONDON, August 4. In the House of Commons, during the discussion in the committee stage of the 'trades Disputes Bill, on the clause Jallowing peaceable and reasonable picketing, Sir Charles Dilke moved to add the wcrds "that attendance for the purpose of picketing should be held as a nuisance." The Government resisted , the amendment, en the ground that it was unnecessary. The amendment was negatived by 127 votes to 122. Mr A. Balfour and about a score of Unionists saved the Government from defeat by voting with the majority. The House agreed to Mr J. Walton's newest version of Clause 4 of the Bill. air Edward Carson declared that the clause was farcical. It would have been better to have said that the King can do no wrong, neither can the Tirades Unions. At a later stage of the discussion, Lord Robert Cecil uroteated that the Government was breaking its promise not to prolong the debate. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman denied making the promise. Mr™Balfour and all the Unionists left the House. THE COMMITTEE OP DEFENCE. LONDON, August 3. Speaking in] the House of Commons, Sir Henry Camnbell-Banner-man incidentally declared that his former fears lest the Committee of Defenoe should encroach on the Cabinet's responsibility had been allayed. His experiences of the committee bad been most satisfactory. Major Seely, Liberal member for Aberorombie, urged that represents tives of the colonies and India and of the Opposition should be included on the Committee of Defence. Mr Balfour: "Since the colonies never gave us complete control of their forces it is less necessary to give them permanent representation, thought they ought to be able to command a place whenever the desired to co-operate." Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman declared that the committee had nothing to do with th<* Govern ment's fundamental military and naval polioy. The colonies, he added, can already be oonsulted whenever it is desirable or they desire it. PROGRESS OP BILLS. LONDON, August 3. The Colonial Marriages Bill has been read a third time. 1 Mr Lloyd-George's Home Industries Census Bill has been read a second time. The Appropriation Bill has been read a second time. Sir Antony Macdonnell, in a speeoh delivered at Dublin, declared his Arm belief that % ther« would be a fruition in 1907 of many of the hopes the best of Irishmen for many years had entertained. There would, he said, be a fruition of so much that Irishmen, if they were , true 'to themselves, would, make it a source from whence the whole of their hopes may be fulfilled.