The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
LIBERALS FACE
 DIFFICULT TASK UnioniStS Continue to Gain In the Election Results COMPROMISES IN VIEW Chancellor Lloyd-Georse Tells His Fol lowers That They Must Not Be
 Faint Hearted But Stand
 Up For Bold Policy.
COMPROMISES IN VIEW

|, London, January 25-Five hundred | and nifty mine members of the new par liameut have been elected. They are distributed as follows: Unionists, 2SS; ! liberals. 213; laborites, 36; national ists, 72
 The announcement of unionist gains continues with unoroken regularity. Out of 3S results declared today they had nine gains, of which one was in Scotland and one in Ireland.
 Against this the liberals were only able to secure two gains in Scotland
 Among the prominent members elected today were the Rt. Hon. Austin Chamberlain, who won for the union ists in Worcestershire. and Sir Acland- Hood, the chief nion4st whip, who re- taned his seat for the West division of Somersetshire.
 Among those defeated were Sir C. D. Dose, who failed of reelection in the Eastern division of Cambridgeshire, and r. H. Newnes, the newspaper proprie- tor, who previously held the seat for the Northern or Bassettaw division of Nottinghamshire for the liberals.
 The elections will continue through out the week, but the chances of the unionists obtaining majority or of the liberals securing enough seats to render them independent of the laborites and nationalists, have now disappeared and it becomes an interesting question as to how the liberal government is go- ing to meet the difficult task before 1t.
 The air is full of suggestions of com- promise, but nothing is likely to be de- cided until the prime minister calls meeting of the cabinet next week for preliminary discussion of the terms of the royal speech at the opening of the new parliament. Employment insurance as recently detailed by Winston Spencer Churchill, 1t is reliably reported, and the veto of the house of lords, will be the principal themes taken up by the Kings speech.
 According to a rumor from reliable source tonight, Premier Asquith's present idea is only to propose that the house Of lords be deprived of the power of vetoing financial bills, but it is practically certain that such a restricted measure will not satisfy the nationalists, to say nothing of the radicals, and unless the govern ment proposes to limit the lords veto on all legislation it Is exceedingly likely there will be a split in the liberal ranks.
 Chancellor Lloyd George, speaking at Stourbridge tonight. seemed to have some notion of this kind in his mind.
 He said that the eection had been won by bold, strong policy, and if the liberal leaders now listened to the counsels of timidity and faint-heartedness the democ- racy would be disgusted and would aban- don them.
 Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary at Hezham said that the unionists ex- pected the governments majority to be dependent upon the Irish vote, but the situation was rather that the tariff re- form party would be dependent upon the Irish vote for the chance of turning the government out.
 Fraud, he declared, might have oc- cured, and the situation might offer itself for political wreckers It called for states manship and the government would con- tinue to steer the ship of state with steady hand and on wise course.