The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01
GULPDON|NBUDGET,
BUT WITH WRYFACE
.---
Liberals Are Delighted, and Go
for Recess in High
Spirits.
FIGHT NOT YET OVER
Lords Not Likely to Capitulatc
Until Country Says They
Must.
FIGHT NOT YET OVER
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London, April so.-The Lords. with
very wry face. have gulped down
the budget which they rejected in 1909.
The Liberals are delighted. and have
gone away for the recess in high
spirits. Some are in such fools
paradise that they imagine the Lords
will accept the abolition of their veto
without putting the country 10 the
inconvenience of another election.
Why the Lords should capitulate at
the first summons Is not at present
very obvious. There is always time
enough to surrender. If they go to
the country and are beaten again they
will be no worse off than they would
be II they climbed down now, and
there Is always the off-chance that
they might win. II AsQuith could
muzzle the wild men of his own party
and of his Labor allies the chance OF
victory for the Lords would be very
small. but this he cannot do.
Already Heir Hardie. one of the
most well-meaning. but injudicious of
men. has thrust into the hands of Mr..
Balfour a trump card which may help
him to win the game, Hardie's speech
declaring that II the King refuses to
make new peers with which to crush
the old ones democracy will rise and
crush both the crown and peers. This
is exactly the kind OF thing that will
win votes by the thousands for the
Tories.
Heir Hnrdlc's Unwisc Threat.
If there are many moro speeches
like that it is not the crown and peers
who will be crushed; that fate will be-
fall not only Keir Hardie. but the
ministry with whom he is apparently
in alliance. for the Tory war-cry would
be that every vote given for the Lib
erals would be a vote given against
the King. God bless him.
When Asquith called on tho Kine
on Thursday the interview lasted only
half an hour, and neither sovereign
nor Premier was likely to precipitatt
matters. The King can. on occasions
hold his tongue. The Premier's tins
for rendering advice has not yet come
The King never argues with his min
listers: he asks questions and receives
replies.
He certainly will not pledge himself
in advance. whether or not he will &C
cept the advice or resignation of hi:
Prime Minister until circumstance:
have arisen calling for such decision
The ministers have won the frs
round, and are stronger now thar
they were when Parliament met.
Asaniths emphatic tribute to Lloyd
George has improved tho popularity Of
both Asquith and LloydGeorge. Or
the opposition side Balfour remains
where he was; Austin Chamberlain has
improved his position. and so has Mr.
Prettyman. Among the Irish, Devlin
has justified the confidence OF those
who see In him future leader. Among
the Laborites no fresh regulations
have been made.
Walt for Roosevelt's Pence Talk.
Roosevelt's Nobel prize Grafton is
awaited with great curiosity here. No
matter what he may say to the pacifi-
cists, one thing is tolerably certain,
no will not say what Andrew Carnegie
said at the opening of the new build
ing Of Pan America at Washington
Carnegie's remark, as reported in our
papers. was in effect that Great
Britain and Germany would be forced
to submit their troubles to tribunal
so that the worlds peace would not
be disturbed by increased ornaments.
Has Carnegie reflected for a moment
upon what the troubles are which
he would refer to tribunal?
There are absolutely no outstanding
disputes of any kind between Germany
and England; there is nothing for a
tribunal to adjudicate upon. The only
trouble which causes increased arma-
ments Is the determination of Ger
many to build fleet which would de.
| prive England of her "two-keel-to-
! one" supremacy on the sea. How is any
| tribunal to adjudicate on that? Who
would decide either that Germany
| must he content forever with tn,
status quo or that England must b,
| compelled to surrender the positio,
| held since Trafalgar?