Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-23
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CHALLENGER
COMMONS
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Peers Determined to Reject
Budget and Risk Everything
in Appeal to People in a Gen.
eraI Election,
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London, Nov. 22,-"It is my opiu-
/ ion that it is impossible that any Hb-
I eral government can ever again bear
/ the heavy burden of office unless it
Is secured against repetition Of the
treatment such as its measures hav"
had to undergo for the last four
years.
This sensational declaration Ny
Lord Loreburn. lord high chancellor
in the debate on the budget in the
/ house of lords today had an electrical
effect upon liberal members of the
house of commons who crowded the
galleries.
Quitting the galleries they surged
into the lobbies under the convic-
ton that they had heard the govern
ments last word before the general
election, that Premier Asquith will
make similar declaration in the
house of commons next week and
that long delayed campaign against
the lords had now begun in earnest,
1t was held that Lord Loreburn's
statement could only mean that no
liberal leader henceforth win accept
office until he receives a pledge from
the crown that enough peers will be
appointed on the premior's nomina-
tion to secure the house of commons
against interference from the house
of lords in financial matters
After the Earl of Crewe, lord priVy
seal, had formally moved the second
reading of the budget bill. without
comment. Lord LanSdoWnc, leader Of
the opposition, Immediately moved
its rejection. He quoted precedents
to show that. although the house of
lords could not amend finance bill
1t had full right to discuss II and
to throw it out If so willed Besides,
the present bill, he urged. had tackled
to its legislation such as land tax
alton and Increased license dues which
the lords already had rejected and
which had been placed in the bin to
oust the lords from their legitimate
opportunity of dealing with these
measures.
What he asked, was to prevent
home rule being introduced in the
finance bill There was no limit to
such abuses The unionists opposed
license duties because they were
crushing in their severity; the same
applied to the land taxes.
The people. he said, not having
been consulted, the peers had clear
duty. not to decree the final extinction
of the bill, but to insist that be-
fore it became law the country
should be allowed an expression OF
opinion. The lords had carefully
considered the consequences of the
rejection of the bill and were ready
to face them.
Lord Loreburn replied. coutending
that there was nothing In the bill
foreign to finance with which the R
house of commons had the exclusive .
right TO deal.
The attempt OF the lords to inter
ferc. he declared. was the beginning
of a system that would lead to con-
stitutional revolution. What was
EN- bodied in the bill WAS not new, In
either the United states or GERMANY
and had been approved, not only By
the present but by the late house of
commons After the lord high chan
cellor many peers addressed the
house, but interest Wancd. The Duke
Of Norfolk who supported Lord Lans-
downe's resolution confessed that the
ords had a serious problem to face,
but that it should not daunt them in
their duty