Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-18
ENGLISH LORDS
PASSIRISf1 LAND
BILL AT LAST
AMENDMENTS REFUSED BY
THE COMMONS CHANGED
COMPROMISE WITH PEERS is
ABSOLUTELY REFUSED
Political Situation in England Is
in Turmoil, but Advocates of
Budget Are Determined to
Get Final Decision
tBy Associated Press.1

7 ONDON, Nov. II. The
Irish land bill was passed in
II the house of lords tonight
with some change in amendments
recently proposed by the lords,
to which the house of commons
on November 5 refused to agree.
The vote in the house of COM
mons on the motion not to agree
to the lords amendment to the
irish land bill on November
stood POI to "a. On moving the
motion Augustine Birrell, chic;
secretary for Ireland, declared
that he was most anxious to come
to terms, as the failure of the bill
would create a deplorable situa-
tion in Ireland and that an effort
would be made to arrange a COM
promise between the two houses
of parliament. A committee was
appointed for this purpose.
No Compromise offered
Walter Lunciman, president of the
board of education, speaking at Hull
today, made the important announce
ment in behalf of the government that
it would refuse to entertain any nego-
tiations or compromise with the peers
over the budget. Beyond this an
nouncement all is conjecture regard
ing the political situation. Some prom
inent liberals still are of the opinion
that Premier Asquith will resign OH
the rejection of the budget
Others believe that he will ask the
king to create a large body of liberal
peers, recalling that the Irish church
disestabishment bill was allowed by
the lords on Gladstone's threat TO
create a new body.
Mr.. Balfour's speech at Manchester
tonight satisfies his followers inasmuch
as it adopts tariff reform as the party
cry. AS to his exact views on tariff
i reform, Mr.. Balfour was silent except
/ to say that he would not touch tariff
reform ''if it were to increase the ordi-
nary cost of living Of the working
classes"
Tariff Reform Demanded
A striking point in Mr. Balfour's
speech was the admission that tariff
reform is the only practical alternative
to Chancellor Floyd-George's budget
an important admission which seems to
indicate that the leader of the oppo-
sition has been won over to acceptance
of tariff reform as a plank in the
unionist platform.
Mr.. Balfours speech was mainly a
denunciation of the budget and an ap-
peal to his audience by the representa-
tion that tariff reform would be espe-
cially beneficial to the cotton industry
which was seriously threatened by
European, American and Japanese COM
petition and by the growing difficulty
Of obtaining sufficient raw material
Mr.. Balfour contended that German
and American prosperity had grown
up contemporaneously with the i'm
position of high protective duties.
He gave his party no special lead for
the coming campaign, but expressed
approval of Lord Lansdowne's motion
to reject the budget, of which formal
notice was given in the house of lords
yesterday.
Mr.. Balfour argued that, while the
house of lords no longer was the equal
of the house of commons in authority.
it would be fatal to the country's in
stitutions If it were deprived oe the
power to say that some matters were
so grave as to necesistate an appeal
to the people The main function of
the lords, said Mr.. Balfour, was to see
that the British government was a
popular government. The liberals In
the campaign apparently will concen-
trate their attack on the house of
lords, in which they will have the en-
ergetic assistance of the Irish party
John Redmond, leader of the Irish
party, speaking in Dublin tonight de-
clared that they refused to throw
themselves into the arms of the tar
iff reformers or to Lack up the house
of lords, Ireland's deadly enemies The
nationalists had long prayed, he said,
to be able to strike a blow at the