, 1909-12-01
KILOGRAMS
ST. CROIX

London, Nov, 26th-Lord Curzon was
pre- youted, by indisposition, from partsking
in the debate in the House of Lords last
evening. Lord Ashbourne contended hat
there was no authority against the Lords
right to act according to their discretion
regarding the budget, especially this years,
which, for the first time, ATTEMPTED to pass
beyond the scope of providing a revenue.
The Government, he declared, acted uncOn-
stitutionally, in taking land and license
measures upon the budget, and the tacking
appeared worse after the Lords rejection
of the license measure. This lacking was
obvious, and the consequent want of conf
dence and unrest were apparent in the de-
cline of ~consols, and the expulsion of untold
millions of capital. What is the use of the
House of Lords, he asked, if it is unable to
act when the time for action arrives.
Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, admonished
the Lords, saying: eff you win, your victory
will be only temporary, and if you lose,
you prejudice the power, prestige and use-
fulness of the House which each of you honors
and desires to preserve as heartily as / DO"
He spoke without Lord Rosebery's grace,
but more effectively. The Bishop Of Here
ford dissented from the Archbishop of
Canterbury's suggestion, that the Bishops
should abstain from debating, and urged
that they should exercise independent
judgment, and should represent the
poor. He supported the budget, which,
he said, was based upon sound finance,
and designed for the social well
fare the country's response should be :;
that never again should the popular liberties
be endangered by a privileged class, and he
urged that the budget should be passed as
o protection against a popular revolt. Lord
Ridley, Lord Lucas and others spoke, and
the House then adjourned until Monday,
when Lord Curzon, Lord Morley and Lord
Rothschild will speak.
1t is believed that this unexpected inter-
val is designed to enable the opposition to
devise some means of escape from the po-
sitiou created by the speeches, which GER
tainly will damage the Conservative cause
in the coming election. Some hope for a
compromise over Sunday, but this is i'm
probable. The Government is united, and
has been strengthened by the conditions
which weaken and confuse the opposition,
increasing the prospect that the rejection of
the budget will be the final action before the
general election. Six thousand persons par
ticipated in q pro budget demonstration in
Parliament Square, sang political songs, and
cheered for Mr.. Lloyd George, finally be-
coming so uproarious that the police had to
dispense them. The demonstration will be
repeated on u larger scale on Monday and
Tuesday next.
Mrs. Chaplin, who damaged the ballot
boxes at the Bermondsey election, has been
sentenced to three months Imprisonment for
that ~offense, and to four months more for the
assault upon the presiding officer at the
polling station; the other offender, Miss
Neilans, was sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment.
The Madrid correspondent CT the "Daily
Telegraph" states that Sir M. de Bunsen,
British Ambassador to Spain, will replace
Mr.. Bryce as Ambassador to the United
States. A Washington despatch, however,
states that Mr.. Bryce has been recalled for
"a consultation, and will return in February
nth an invitation to President Taft to visit
NADIA, when en- route to Alaska next
Ner.
Standards Berlin correspondent says
1t Bernstorff has given such salts
re United States, that he is to be
decorated preliminary to his
aon to arrange an Anglo-Ger-
state that the Minister Of
commended the construction
thought in 1910, and there
ally until an aggregate of
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patch states that Professor