The Government's Programme.

West Coast Times, Issue 13731, 30 January 1906, Page 3

The Government's Programme.

Mr Sydney Buxton, in the course of a speech in London, said that it was not dm* cult to say what the Government were going to do with their majority in the immediate future. What it was intended >o do at the outset was to deal with elementary education and to establish it ou a national ba«i.°. At the same time die nutter of safeguarding the funds of trade unions from the apphca'ion of tho Uvr as to individual members thereof would be dealt with. Later on the object of the Government would be to deal with the many social and labour questions that were before them. These, it wa« confidently expected, would be settled upon a substantiil and a radical basis. Bat) said Mi Buxtoo, the Government

m !< beware ; must b?ware <f t^e darger >f ship. vr«"ck upon tliat rock whereon a Lbzial adminißtrcfcion was previously wieckad— mmtly, tryir gog 'o r.m <-oo many !;orse3 abreast ! Theie mnst, he added, be a certain measure of give aad take. But, nevertheless, it was now le3s 1 kely, in view of ths larg*? msjority which the Government would have iv the House of Commons, that the House of Lo:ds would be as prone torej9ct or mut.bte measurss as formerly- U migh>, iv fact, ne anticipated thit ihe Bills passed in tbo House of Commons would have some way or other of receiving the asont of the House of Lords.