The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-17
GOVE RNMEN I IS
ON CREST OF WAVE
Seems to Have Ridden Out Poll
teal Storm in
Safety.
BUDGET WILL GO THROUGH
No One Can Foretell What Will
BUDGET WILL GO THROUGH
No One Can Forctell What Will
Happen After the Weeks
Recess.
BY WILLIAM T. STEAD.

lSpeclai CaDle 10 me Ilne5-D iSpatcn.J
London, April 16.--After laboring
for time in the trough of the sea,
the government appears to be on the
crest of the wave. Redmond is re-
ported to have been satisfied; Asquith
means business and the government
Will not be defeated and on Monday
night the budget Will so through.
Parliament Is ripe for a three weeks
recess on April 90. and when 1t reas-
sembles, the Lords will have to show
their hands. Then, 1t is expected, VIII
come dissolution.
No ono wants general elections; tina
ministers are making votes on account
for six weeks only, SO IL they go out
and Balfour comes in, he Will be CONF
PEELED to go to the country at once,
for this house will not vote him
penny. The Liberals prefer that AS
uliith should not resign, but dissolve.
| On that point nothing Is decided, and
when the critical moment is reached
| everything depends on what Asquith
| says to the King.
| At present the optiruists believe he
| Will tell His Majesty that IL he comes
] back with majority he Will count
/ upon being allowed to allow the royal
\ prerogative to BIO used to make the
/ Will OF the people prevail. The King
will accept the notification, but will
decline to give guarantees in advance.
prcferrins to wait I'LL the situation
/ develops. Something, however. must
be done, and opinion Is ripening In the
direction OF using the royal preroga-
| tive TO Withhold writs of summons
| from eli persons whose only claim to
| SIT and vote is based on possession OF
! a reerage.
Mny Demand Admission.
Lord Hugh Cecil tells me that In
his opinion the King IS not right to
i withhold writs and that II he did SO
the peers would present themselves at
4 the doors OF the house and demand
| admission. no which statement 1 re-
piled by saying that no person mas
ever been admitted in the past with
out showing his writ of summons. and
the police would make short work of
i any one trying to force his way III
/ without that Indispensable credential.
I'm tnat case" replied Cecil, there
/ would BIO an appeal to tho law courts.
/ But no court would venture to in
terfere Cur courts are unlike the
| American supreme Court, which Is SUI
perlor to the Legislature. No court can
SIT IN uPciis thS sAS5''Asy
! an act OF Parliament. and IL any court
| showed any disposition to question the
| legality of any action of the crown IN
| not issuing writs of summons, a short
| act would be promptly passed authori-
| tatively settling the question OF the
authority OF the King. Lord and Conn
| mons.
Something will have to be done, 9TH
erwise tho Liberals will have to give
up all hope OF ever governing the
country again
Winston Churchill, who on his moth
er's side is half American. is rapidly
forging to the front as the future
leader of the Liberal party. He is to
eclipse Lloyd George. So far he has
made no mistakes and every speech fla
makes In the house increases his hold
over that assembly.
Mr.. Johnson, the eS-Nrayor OF Cleve-
land prohted much by his stay on tho
Continent He has returned to Lonr
don on his way to America. He re-
fuses to be interviewed and declares
| that most of the alleged interviews
| with him published in the press are
| bogus.
| dincd the other night with Harry
| Selfridge, In the sumptuons palace he
has rented for four years from Lord
| Marlborough I found him we'll satis-
| fled with his venture,