, 1910-11-23

formation regarding any dlfl 10 tue SIOWny
and he declared that if the Veto Bill be re-
iected he will advise 8 dissolution on the
tweptv-eighth meanwhile he would remove
the pauper disqualification for receiving
old ace pensions, and would receive dele
cations regarding the Osborne Judgment to-
morrow, and he hoped to announce the Gov
ernment's intentions speedily thereafter. He
proposed that the House should deal with
the essential part Of the Finance Bill, the
income tax, tea duty, and sinking fund, ana
he announced that if the Government is
reelected, he will propose next year pay
ment of the members of the House.
Mr.. Balfour, replying, said this programme
was unprecedented and unconstitutional
The Government, he declared, is eyadiug
the possibility of renching q moderate and
reasonable agreement regarding the Veto
powers of the Upper House.
Mr.. Barnes, Member for Blackfriars,
Glasgow, said the Labourites were dis
satisfied with the suggestion for the
payment of members of the House of
Commons as a palliative for the prejudice to
the Trade Unions by the Osborne Judgment.
Mr.. Balfour in a recent speech at Not
tingham SAID that tariff reform is the Uni
onists great constructive policy, hut is uu-
desirable ut the cost Of burdening the wage
earners. They will however show the cOun.
try that their imperial and domestic policies
are both advantageous to it. He urged the
reform of the House Of Lords along Lord
Rosebery's lines, and declared that the Ma
tionalists and Socialists were seeking to COM
NIT the Government to the unconstitutional
abolition of the Veto by the ords, and this
he added is q revolution financed by AmerI-
can gold. Party Government, he further
said, was defective if it brought the country
to such @ degradation and the country was
unfit for self government if the constitution
was altered at the command OF Logrollers
who care nothing for the Empire. Mr..
Chaplin has delivered a speech Of similar
tenor to Mr.. Balfour's.
These speeches have set the Unionist key
note as reflected in the Standards leader,
which says this Is MIR. Redmond's crisis, not
Mr.. Asquith's, and that Mr.. Redmond's
patrons are not poor like Parnelre, but
American MILL naires, who are financing
Home Rule for purposes of their own, not
loving England and desiring to obstruct
tariff reform.
Before the House of Lords adopted Lord
Rosebery's resolutions the clause regarding
tenure of Office was withdrawn.
Ottawa, Nov. 19th.-At the opening of
Parliament, Earl Grey, i'll the speech from
the throne, expressed confidence that the
arrangement of reciprocity with the United
States would increase the American dispo-
sition to bay more largely from Canada.
The Opposition notified that they would
present a motion for the reduction of the
customs on agricultural machinery. This
bid for the votes of the western farmers will
force Sir Wilfrd Laurier's hand.
A case of cholera has occurred on board
the "Royal George at Quebec.
Denver, Col, Nov. 19th-While Mr.,
Johnstohe, the aeronaut who recently as
cended to the record height Of OLA feet,
was flying yesterday, the wings OF his biplane
collapsed at a height of almost one thousand
feet, and although he fought desperately
to make them open and catch the air, he fell
to the earth and was dead before his body
was reached by the shocked spectators.
New York, Nov. l9th.-The Government
have begun proceedings against Brooke and
Company Of Huddersfield, and Bradford, one
of the eight firms implicated in frauds on
the customs, described as dwarfing even the
sensational sugar frauds. Ten million dol
lars duty is involved upon imports of twenty
six million yards of dress goods. The Unit
ed States AttOrney-G enprnlasay every wool