Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-23

declared that the Labor party was in
| favor of Home Rule.
| The negotiations between the gov
| eminent and the Nationalist, which
| had been temporarily suspended, were
| re-opened this afternoon. The Irish
| leaders laid their views before the
cabinet urging the desirability of sub
| ordinating everything possible to the
| question of the Lords power of Veto
| Subsequently the ministers met in the
premier's room in the House of Com
| mons for a council among themselves.
In the House of Commons, William
O'Brien, Nationalist, declared that the
only effectual thing that the present
House of Commons could do was to
terminate it's own existence He came
out fiat-footedly in a announcement
of the budget, which he said would
prove if adapted, a curse to Ireland.
O'Brien twitted Redmond of yielding
to the government the substance, while
retaining the shadow.
Speaking from carefully prepared
notes. which showed that he was the
mouthpiece OF the government, Win
ston Spencer Churchill declared that
the cabinet would stake it's whole
exstance upon the passage of the veto
bill and he promised that a resolution
embo6ying it's principles would be
brought forward at the earliest pos
sible moment He did not think that
any responsible member would recon-
mend that the House exercise it's
power of refusing the necessary sup
ply. TO attempt to compel a cOnstitu-
tional change by that means would in
the judgment of the government ex-
pose them to a swift and binding ca
tastrOphe.
The ministry, Mr.. Churchill said, would
regard the destruction of the budget as a
mortal blow They attached an import
, ance to it second only to that of the veto
bills. They would further regard it's de-
feat as a vindication of the unconstitu-
tonal action of the House of Lords.
The government was bound to give
prompt effect, he continued, and bring
TO a final issue it's policy of dealing with
the House of Lords and for the abolition
IF the absolute veto power of the Second
Chamber. If there was to be a crisis and
deadlock, however, that crisis and dead
lock could not come too soon. The policy
IF the government was to place the pro-
posals before the House so that the de-
cision of the members might be taken
thereon.
James Keir Hardie, president of the
Independent Labor party, protested
against any attempted reconstruction of
the House of Lords, as the Laborites did
| not believe merely in destroying the veto
power of the Lords-a relic of feudal-
ism, an insult and outrage upon democ-
raCy. But as the Labor party could not
get it's own way it would accept the
second best course and support the gov
eminent in getting rid of the veto. He
hoped that the government would make
the passage of the budget contingent
upon the veto bill going through, and he
urged the government to refuse the sup
ply as means of forcing the Lords to
agree to the abolition of their own power
of Veto
Sir James II. Dalziel voiced the views
of the more radical supporters of the
government little group numbering %.
including Sir Charles Dixie, IIlare Bal
loo and Joseph Martin, former Cana
dian politician, who are pressing the
government to deal with the veto bill
before the budget. Sir James complained
that the Liberals had been badly treated
in view of the assurance given in the
premier's speeches prior to the election.
Walter Hume Long, speaking for the
Opposition. twitted the government on
the discrepancy of it's views and those
of it's supporters. The government, he
said, was trying to work revolution
and at the same time play the part of
constitutional ministers.