The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-19
That is Now the Only Possible
Course
ACCORDING TO ASQUITH
Balfour Takes Another View-Lords
Must Vote on Veto, and Parlia-
ment VIII Be Dissolved if 1t
Is Rejected.

| London, Nov l9.-It is the intention
Of the government to pass the essential
features of the budget, namely, the in
come tax, tea duty and sinking fund
provisions; remove the pauper disquali-
fcation for old age pension, and to
dissolve parliament on Nov rs, should
the lords in the meantime reject the We
to bill
Presenting this programme in the
house Of commons yesterday, Premier
Asquith said that he had hoped up to
the last moment that the veto confer
ence would reach a settlement.
There never had been a more honest
or more sustained attempt by men of
strong and conflicting convictions to find
basis Of agreement upon which to
build a structure promising stability
and endurance.
| In view Of the failure of the confer
ence, Mr. Asquith said that it would
be useless to attempt to hammer out
an agreement in the present parliament
70 the accompaniment Of the din of
party collision.
THE result is that we revert to a
state Of war" declared the premier, who
continues The lords will be given an
opportunity Of saying yes or mo- to
the governments veto bill in the coming
week There is no question Of amend
ment or transformation II is a ques-
ton of acceptance or rejection
The time has come for this contro-
versy, which obstructs the whole path
OF progressive legislation, to be sent for
final decisive abtrament to the national
tribunal"
Mr.. Asquith denied the assertion of
the conservatives that the government
was acting under pressure, saying that
he understood that the charge was that
pressure was being applied by the sin
ister hand Of the black angel Of this
political drama, Mr. Redmond.
Mr.. Asquith then detailed the legis-
lation that the government proposed to
pass before the dissolution Of parlia-
nlent and said that it would be neces-
sary to appropriate S2,500,000 to carry
out the provisions of the act removing
the pauper disqualification from old age
pension He concluded by promising
that if the government obtained the re-
quisite parliamentary majority, be would
neat year bring in a bill to provide for
the payment OF members Of the house
Of commons.
Arthur j. Balfour, leader Of the OPP
position in the house of commons, VINO
made the unionist key note speech at
Nottingham Thursday night, yesterday
attacked the government programme as
announced by the premier. Speaking in
the house of commons he described the
government method Of procedure as un-
precedeHted and unconstitutional. The
British ministry, he said, had made up
their minds that all chance Of the lords
making moderate and reasonable pro.
posals for the settlement OF the ques-
tion at issue between the two houses
must be avoided at all hazards, SO was
rushing through a dissolution of parlia.
ment before it would be possible for
the moderates on both sides to form
tangent.
Pressed for statement on the sub
jest Of guarantees from the crown, Pre-
mier Asquth said that his declaration
Of last April still represented the de-
lherate intentions of the government
4 decline now" he declared, and shall
continue to decline to make a state
Ilent regarding the advice which may
have given or hereafter may give. The
crown stands aloof fl5m all our politi-
cal and electoral controversies, and ii
is the duty of his subjects, as we'll as
Of his ministers, to maintain secure his
absolute detachment from the arena of
party struggles"