New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
LIBERAL DISSENSI0NS
THE BUDGET STRUGGLE.
Signs of British Elections an January
Royal Diplomacy.
LRy rrench cable . &c TrIbnne. J


London, Oct 16.-The King will return from
Sandringham twenty four hours earlier I'm
had been originally planned. This Will leave u
short interval for peace negotiations before he
starts for William James's Sussex house,
where there viii be pheasant shooting and no
politics II is not yet known whether the Prime
Minister viii Ice ia attendance here, but there
can be little diplomacy without the Kings chief
adviser While the Kings principal motive
apart from the necessity of mastering the COM
pick situation. must be the desire to prevent
constitutional struggle il is not yet clear how
an adjustment be arranged giye-and-
take principles The ministers cannot have any
thing less than the budget OF the Lords anything
less than an appeal 10 the country, but there
must be no bargain or any suggestion that dis
solution has been dictated by the upper house
This solution might be arranged if the ex-
tremists on both sides were not eager 10 force
an election by the rejection of the budget. The
moderate men Of both parties are repealed by
the unoomPromising and reckless conduct of
the wild men their side. but listen with
respect 20 the forecasts OF the whips regarding
the probable result of the election. The Liberal
whips assert that they could not lose more than
dftV seats If an appeal to the country were
made on the question Of the budget. The Union
ist political managers cannot claim more than
a hundred seats which they are likely to wn
and that result would leave them in the mi
noFity.
The Cabinet is not united David LIoyd-George.
Winston Churchill Mir. Harcourt and Lord Car
Tington being the only enthusiastic supporters
of the budget Mr.. Gray. John Burns, r. b. Hal
dane and Lords Morley and CTewe being luke
warm. A summary rejection of the budget Will
restore ministerial unity and give radicalism a
great issue for the country This conNinces
cautious peers mat the budget should be allowed
go through. and the elections be deferred until
the Uni0nists haze a better chance OF carrying
the country by q majority large enough to re-
lieve them from dependence on the Irish Nation
aists.
The success Of peace negotiations lies with
the reluctance Of the moderate men in the Cahi-
net and the Conservative benches of the Lords
10 allow the extremists TO control the situation.
A special referendum, the Swiss order; the
creation of a considerable number of new peers,
the abrupt resignation Of Premier Asquith and
other eNpedients are suggested. but the most
rlH0bahle result is an election in january after
the budget has been either passed or rejected by
the Lords. A reaction against the government
has set in since Mr.. Lloyd-George's speech az
Newca stle, and the Bernondsey by-electon may
prove that tariff reform is more popular than
social reform grounded the taxation of the
Fieh. II the Unionists carry Bermondsey, the
Lords may become unmana geable subtle and
persistent royal diplomacy may be. con-
centration Of the Unionist forces is in progress,
Lord Hugh Cecil virtually accepting tariff re-
form as q choice of evils. and Lord curzon con-
demning free trade as a dilapfdated image at
"A empty shrine.
The week ends in a political fog with shriii
outcries of NO surrender" by the partisans on
both sides. and The Spectator" taking zap the
new fad of referendum and playing with it like
child with painted toy. Inf