Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-26
.B|iIain's Liberal Govern
nent Has Big Task
To Garry Out Program in Face
OF Recent Elections.
No Hope Now Of Gaining the Ma
jority Without the Lahorites.

London, Jan. 25.-F'ive hundred and
| sixty members of the new Parliament
have been elected. They are distribut-
| ed as follows:
Unionists 23S; Liberals 213; Labor
| ties 81; Nationalist ~.
The announcement Of Unionist gains
continues with unbroken regularity.
Out of SO results declared during
the course, Of today they had nine
gains. of which one was in Scotland
and one in ireland. Against these the
Liberals were only able to set two
gains in Scotland.
Among the prominent members
elected today werc the Rt. Hon. Aus
| tin Chamberlain, who won for the
Unionists in Worcestershire East and
| Sir A. f. Acland- Hood, the chief
Unionist whip, who retained his seat
for the west division of Somersetshire.
Among those defeated were Sir G.
D.. Rose, who failed of recollection in
| the eastern division of Cambrdgeshire,
and +. II. Newnes, the newspaper
proprietor. who previously held the
seat for the northern, or Bassett Law
division of Nottinghampshirc for the
Liberals.
The UnioniSts also succeeded in
making nroads upon the Nationalist
phalanx. capturing Mid Tyrone, where
| the Healyite and Redmonite candi-
dates divided the Nationalist vote
Balloting today is in 40 constitu-
| encies, including that of Premier
Asquith in Fife, east, and War Sec
| rotary Richard Burden Haldane's in
Haddingtonshrc.
d. d. Sheehan was elected for the
mid-division of Cork county, as an
independent Nationalist. defeating the
ofhct2. RedmOndte candidate by a ma
jority of S25. Sheehan is the seventh
anti Redmond Nationalist thus far
elected. In 1907 lie challenged the lead
ersi''p of John Redmond and subse-
lqrenty resigned his seat, but was re-
elected.
| Enc elections will contine throughout
Ithe week, but the chances of the Uni
o"IslS obtaining majority or of the
Liberals securing enough seats to rem
taPr tii"al independent of the LaboriteS
ana NationalIstS have now disappeared
ana IL becomes most interesting queS-
t'oh as 20 how the Liberal government
Is gong To met the difficult task be-
lore IT, III" air is full of suggestions
of compromise. but nothing is likely to
be decided until the prime minister
| calls a meeting Of the cabinet next
week for a preliminary discussion of
| tle terms of the royal speech for the
opening of the new Parliament.
| Cur'ous measures are expected to be
promised in the Kings speech, includ-
| ing Welsh dis-establishment uneln-
pioyment insurance and the veto of the
| House of Lords. The veto question will
| be the first to be taken uD. after the
address in reply to the Kings speech is
! disposed Of
The King will open Parliament Feb.
| IL with full state ceremony Queen
Alexandra will accompany him.
According to a rumor from a reliable
| source, tonight Premier Asquith's present
| idea is only to propose that the House of
| Lords be deprived of the power of vetoing
finance bills, but it is practically certain
such restricted measure VII. not satisfy
the Nationalist. to say nothing of the
Radicals and unless the government pro-
poses to limit the Lords veto on all leg
islation, it is exceedingly likely there will
be a split in the Liberal ranks. 49,
Chancellor Lloyd-George, speaking at
Stourbridge tonight, seemed to have some
notion of this kind in his mind. He said
the election had been won by a bold,
strong, policy and if the Liberal leaders
now listened to the counsels of timidity
and faint heartedness the democracy
| would be Disguised and abandon them.
Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary
at Hexham, said the Unfonfsts expected
| the7 governments majority to be depend
ent on the irish vote. but the Situation
was rather that the tariff reform party
+. would be dependent on the Irish vote for