Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-02-22
IRISH DESERT
LIBERAL
PARTY
SHORT LIFE PREDICTED
FOR ASQUlTH GOVERNMENT
Premier May be Forced to Re-
sigG Government Lacks MAJ
jority to Garry on LegisIationi
Another Election Inevitable,

JOfily 10 Odffy on Le9lSlall0nI
Another Election Inevitable,
IBy Morning Journal rseeiaI Ieassa wirel
London, Feb. 91.-The players in
tho game Of politics thgew their cards
ou the table in the house ei commons
teday The government ia without tire
allies necessary To cary on legisla-
ton and the prospect Is tnat the coun-
t"s win be stirred up By another gem
RAJ election within a feN months
Premier Asquth announced that
the financial legislation will be put
ahead ~ the proposals to curb the
power of the house OF lords. John f..
Redmond, the irish leader declared
tlatlN hat the nationalsts would not
support thtt program. The laborites
are h"lulng meeting 60 decide their
course. They probably viii follow in
the footsu ps of the Irish members.
The government may re able to
adopt the tndrG W the grace of the
conservatives, who possibly viii vote
for it in order to avoid financial
chaos and keep the wheels OF the em-
pire turning. But the enactment Of
the budget viii, as Mr. Redmond
psinled out. lcitN, the winning cards
IN The hands of the lords, who then
will be free to reject the bill for the
reforming Of their house and force an
other election,
The meeting of parliament today
was a momentous one, for the cab
inets policy was not revealed 10 the
country until Premier Asquith took
the floor
MIR. Redmond and his Irish col
leagues controlled the course uf
events. His prenouneement that the
Irish nrmbers would not support the
prime ainister was the sensation Of
the daN and it appears TO have set
tied the administrations fate 1t is
reported that twenty-five radicals
have declgred their intention OF
supporting Mir Redmond against
the goNrrnrent's course and great
pressure ia being brought to bear from
the radicals to induce Mr. Asquith to
resign r.tf.Ntth.
Austin Chamnerlain will propose an
e the kings speech for
taii1 reform and his imperial pref.
erence, at the same time deploring
the failure of the ministers to recog
nizc in the speech the nature and
gravity of the state Of trade and em-
The kings speeches
usually are prosaic, but one clause In
his s,leach today is regarded as sig
nificent Referring 10 the proposed
reform of the house of lords, the
speech contained the qualifying
clause
in the opinion of advisers
This is Interpreted as meaning that
the Nng wants ca disassociate himself
from such proposals
During the debate on the kings
speech. Arthur J Ialfour spoke for
the opposition. He criticized the
kings speech set il. en- biguitN par
-icularly on the naval question. He
had hopcd, he said fer It declaration
hat the government was prepared to
ACE the situation ard provide any
hing necessary for the defense for the /
empire. The general election had /
}ecn primarily on the budget, he said, !
md he was not quite sure that the {
ountry had pronounced.
when the budget has received cold |
md chilly, hut numerically adequate |
support IN this house, it viii doubtless /
lecoma law, ! believe the majority I
If the constituents in Great Britain I
ire prepared to support the budget (
lut can it be pretended that Ireland |
'avors =? If ireland abstains from !
opposing the Dudgct 1t Will be be-
'ause the Irish members hold the in /
erests of home rule over these of
nance, and | hold that If the budget
we're isolated from an other questions
t would be rejected Mr.. Baifour
'losed by questioning whether it was /
possible to entrust solely to a repre- /
sentative assembly the power of man /
pulating from top To bottom the /
whole constitution of the country
Mr.. Asquith. in rising to reply was
oudly cheered He supposed that the
eings speech was the shortest on rec
,rd, Apart from the financial pro-
isiOns. the ont, question on which
he government announced legIsla-
ion was the relations between the
wo houses. Nothing more would be
Introduced at this session.
THE house nf lords, said the pre-
nier, "lust .ear rejected the budget
glaring breach of the unwritten con-
ontions ot Tho constitution, that this
fas the climax OF a series of acts by
which the lords claimed an oVer-rid-
ag authority over the decisions Of the
,opular chamber, and the govern
nent's appeal to the country WAS
nn appeal to give them au-
hority to put an end to that state of
fairs
The premier said that the house
'ould proceed on the question OF the
irds by resolutions that would BE-
aid on the table soon, discussed be
lre the Easter recess. and passed al
his session. The government mad
niy two objects in view; To pass the
udget and Go put an end at the
iriicst moment by the most ade-
uatc method. td the constitutions
ondition giving 60 representative
nd irresponsible authority the power
thWart the purposes and mutilatc
ic handiN0rk of the chosen eypon-
lis of the peoples will
JOHN T.. Redmond, leader of the
ash Iarty. announced that the fact I
ad been emphasized that the nation I
lists stood. as they always had. apart
nd independent allied To no British
trty. rh,N had supported the gov y
nmeut az the election because the
-imc minister's pledge on home rule
ais siippicmr. fed by one still more ,
lyortant To- Ifclgnd. the abolition of {
ic house Of lords which was tanti-
cunt To the adoption of home rule. J
He thought. and the country
lought. that Premier Asquith had 6
.lmised 90 nsk for guarantees Of the
.ercise Of tit royal prerogatiyc and i