Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-11

London, oct 10.-The King will re-
turn to London on Monday and go to
Newmarket or the next day as though
no political crisis We're impending. His
health is excellent, and the presence
of Sir Frederick Treves at Balmoral
has no serious significance.
Scotland will be deserted by sports
men prematurely in consequences of the
political excitement, and. while the
hunting season is coming on in the
English shires, little sport is expected
except at Christmas time. The squires
will be preoccupied with running down
the fcXy democracy.
1t is not likely that the secret history
of the Balmoral negotiations will be
known authoritatively until the end
of another generation. The King, DIS
the most successful diplomatist of Eu
rope, has the advantage of working ST.
lently and of being protected by ETH
quette and good manners from pub,
licty and premature disclosures. The
prime minister's relations with the
sovereign are absolutely confidential,
and his cabinet associates are not adj
mitted behind the VEIL He is the
Kings chief adviser. and while he re-
mains in office speaks for the Crown
as well as for the government and the
party. A serious divergence of opinion
between them would naturally be fol-
lowed by resignation There are no
signs that this act is impending. Such
evidence as can be obtained from
David Lloyd Georges and Dinston
Churchilrs speeches and from the per-
r,;1
bill and the budget to the Lords in
dicates that the prime minister stands
for the Crown in defence of the finan-
cial rights of the representative cham
Der. This arms him with a fresh re-
serve of authority in dealing with the
budget.
A dangerous impasse has been Great
ed by the settled purpose of consid-
cradle body of peers to reject the
budget and the equally inhexible de-
termination of majority in the Com
mons to force an appeal to the .coun-
Try on the veto powers of the upper
house. A conciliatory statesman like
the King will naturally desire to avert
n constitutional conflict between the
houses and find a modus vivendi by
which an appeal to the country can be
made. There has been no conference
between the party lords, as there was
between MIR Gladstone and Lord
Salisbury in 1884, but without doubt
the King has sought to minimize the
risks of a momentous struggle into
which the extremists Were rushing
lrecklessy. There has been neither
compromise nor counterpart, but it is
highly probable that the houses and
the nation will be extricated from a
ldemoraliZing situation.
| A solution is not likely to be proclaimed
lprematurely, but may be revealed in the
course of a few weeks. 1t is not yet clear
how the unmanageable peers can be
brought under discipline, but it may safe
| ly be assumed that the ministers cannot
take less than the budget as it leaves tn,
Commons. 1t is little less than a my
| terry how a general election can follow
the passage of the budget through thu
Lords without the plain implication tina
dissolution has been dictated by The
privileged chamber. but unless the iudg
ment of the best experts be seriously a
fault there will be an appeal to the coun
| try in January after the exclusive powe,
| of the representative assembly over fl
nance has been demonstrated.
The results are likely to satisfy tn,