The Irish standard., 1911-07-15
TORY ORGANS URGE
PEERS TO SURRENDER
Ridiculous RumOrs Have Ceased and
Conditions Indicate Early
Passage of Bill.
Leading Journals Have Abandoned
Position of Pushing Things
to Extremes.
Lloyd George Working Over Time to
Secure Early Passage of Insur-
ance Measure.

Again L. P. O,Connor sounds a
pleasant note in his correspondence
relative to the progress being made by
the Veto Bill in the House of Lords
Cabling from London, July s, to the
Chicago Tribune, he Says:
The house of lords is like Il thcater
where the actors are compelled to keep
on playing after the audience has run
away from sheer boredom. The peers
heap up amendment after amendment
every night, but they cannot get even
the backwoodsmen to attend, the at
tendance sometimes falling to one
sixth of the entire membership of the
house.
Similarly the newspaper readers
have ceased to look at the reports of
the debates. In short the whole thing
is reduced to a tiresomc farce.
All of the ridiculous rumors which
lived a few hours last week have end
ed their ephemeral life. Everybody
recognizes again what to those behind
the scenes was plain in the beginning.
The veto bill will be a law before the
! first week III August.
| 1t is significant OF the entire aban-
! donn1ent OF the position of pushing
| things to extremes that the leading
tory journals now swell the chorus in
favor of surrender. For example the
Spectator, the leading tory weekly, is
| followed by tho Daily Telegraph, the
most powerful tory daily, which ridi-
cules unsparingly the insanity of push
ing Asquith to the creation of 500
| peers.
One Amendment to Be Accepted.
| Premier Asuuith will accept one tory
amendments 1t is perfectly harmless
and merely provides that the veto bill
| shall not be used to carry further at
tacks on the powers OF the house of
lords without another election and as
the liberals have no idea of touching
generation this self denying ordinance
can be given and the acceptance of
| that one amendment will be claimed by
the house Of lords as saving their
! faces
| In the meantime interest is trans
ferred to Lloyd Georges heroic deter
mination to push the insurance bill
through before the close of the pres
ent session. He is exhibiting his well
/ known ndroitness and readiness to
compromise and is talking over the Of
Tended interests and throwing the bill
to all of the parties for free discussion
and decision and to the house OF COM
mons without bringing any ministerial
pressure to influence the votes.
| Lloyd George may succeed, but many
people still shake their heads over the
prospect of prolonging the session un-
til September and express doubts that
so complicated a bill can ever emerge
alive from such d prolonged ordeal. On
the other hand the torrid heat wave
passing over London comes to Lloyd
Georges assistance as nothing will in
!, duce the large number Of Well-to do
Londoners to remain long after the
; end Of July.
: A further factor in Lloyd-Gcorge's
, favor is that the crisis of the veto bill
coming to an end in July will destroy
, largely all of the interest in the pro-
) ceedings of parliament and will leave
u Lloyd George with small body OF
members Of the house Of commons,
who will represent the threatened in
terests such as the workngmen's
friendly societies, and workingmen's
insurance companies to settle the de-
tails Of the bill between them, the
| Moroccan situation remains uncertain
, through the departure of the German
{ emperor on the usual Norwegian
cruise and the strong pressure every
! where to prevent warfare as well as
the calm tone of the French press
, point to the ending Of the whole busi-
ness on new European conference
, and new Encouragement between
, Germany, France and Spain with re-
spect to their rival interests in Mo-
rocco.
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