Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-14
 TUE LORDS VETO POWER To Be Dealt With in the Next Parliamentary Meeting. A BIG BLUFF AT LABOR Made by Joe Chamberlain-Too Thin to Go Down-Some
 Sharp Retort.
A BIG BLUFF AT LABOR

 ter.l-rhe successive declarations made this week by the Rt. Hon. George Shaw Lefevre, president of the local government board the Rt. Hon. Herbert Gladstone, first commissioner of works; Sir John T. Hilbert, member of parliament, and Sir George o. 1revylan, secretary for Scot land, that the government had definitely decided to deal with the question of abol- fishing the veto power of the house of lords has prepared the public mind for statement from Lord Rosebery on the subject upon the occasion of his making a speech at Bradford on October p. Ex- pectancy in this matter has become so keen that the premier will not dare to omit from his address an explicit pronouncemsnt of the governments policy. In his recent declaration MT. Herbert Gladstone said the time was near at hand when the gov ernment should publicly announce it's 1n- tention in regard to the house of lords, and expressed his opinion that the prime mln- ister's statement would undoubtedly meet with the entire concurrence of the rank and file of the liberal party.
 Sir John T. Hubert, though not a mem- Der of the cabinet, has the close confidence of Lord Rosebery. His forecast of the course to be adopted by the ministry ln dealing with tie house of lords question is that the first action will be taken through a resolution introduced in the house of commons immediately upon the reconven- ing of parliament, affirming the principle of limiting the limit of the veto power of the peers, and next, through bill to be introduced later, in which the same prin- ciple shall be embodied. The great ad- vantage of this plan lies in the fact that the resolution could be carried in a debate of not more than a weeks duration, while the consideration of the bill would be apt to take up the time of the entire session and might then be rejected. With the res olution thus passed the government could well afford to allow the bill to drag along until the dissolution of parliament.
 The members of the executive committee of the national federation are at variance over the question of the introduction into the programme of their omingconference of certain proposed measures with tendency toward socialist doctrines and beliefs. The measures are seductive to the members of the labor party and ara in competition with MT, Joseph Chamberlain's latest state socialist platform. A majority of the committee have reached the con- q usioa that by, far tae greater disapprove strongly of coquetting with the socialists and think the best plan for them to adopt would be to rely upon securing the trades councils by supporting the councils candidate at the next parliamentary elec-
 
 wirs pullers, and their view of the matter is commonly conceded to be right, that the most active and influential of the trades unionists, whose tendencies are purely lib- eral, think that more assistance is to be had through gaining access to the party nurse than from the verbal declarations re- Carding social reforms in the party pro-
 The bill prepared by Joseph Chamber lain for introduction at the coming session of parliament is approved by the unionists, but is looked upon with suspicion by the radical workingmen, for whose benefit it is designed. The measure as it stands in- Cludes provisions for the furnishing of state aid to artisans for the purchase of homes of their own, for the granting of old age pensions, for tue limitation of the hours of labor in shops and factories, for the restriction of pauper alien immigra- tion and a new employers liability act. em mbodying a contractl ng- out clause. It is looked upon as @ high old tory dodge which will result in the shelving of the lords, the disesta blishment of the church, and various land reforms, and the replac- ing of them with socialist bribes at the cost of the masses of the people.
 a The scheme proposed in MT. Chamber lain's measure of giving to every working man house of his own proposes that the workin gmen shall supply one-fifth of the money for the purchase, the state advanc- ing the other four-fif at such rate of interest as is supposed will enable the bor- rover to pay off the debt incurred in ten years.
 I The Economist characterizes the propo- sition as a sheer illusion for the beguiling of men into the fallacious idea that the state will endow them with houses of their own without the least additional expense to themselves.
 An analysis of the plan proves that MT. Chamberlain has omitted from his calcula- tions the payment of rates, the cost of keep ing the house in repGir, the ground rent charges, the cost of insurance, the loss of interest on capital invested by the work ingmen and the possibility of the loss of this capital in the event of the vicissitudes of his trade compelling the investor to change his place of residence.
 The genuine socialist laborists have evolved another sort of programme, which has been formulated by Tom Mann for the l behoof of the independent labor party. It | provides among other things, for the fur nishing of remunerative work to the unem- ployed, for taxation to the extinction of all unearned incomes, for the collective own. ership of property, and for the control of production, distribution and exchange. | These subjects are made the basis for the l chief blanks in the party's platform. In the meantime, however, the independent labor party cannot boast of it's solidarity.
 John Burns, member of parliament, | ident of the Weaver's association, will shortly start for Denver, Col, where he and his companion will sit as delegates in the trades congress to be held shortly, has been publicly berating Tom Mann, whom he speaks of as s'shifty and incapable person, having a tidal intellect."
 The leaders of the various factions of