The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
F|ERCEST FIGHT
IN PARLIAMENT
s'D to Deprive thsS Rouse of lsras
Of ia Veto Power Has
srsusht Forth
Struggle,
THE BLOCKING SYSTEM
Business tfas Not Beer HeFeee Our
ary by the Warning Factors
IN the British
cersress.
by Charles ?. stewart, London cor

Esy Charles P Stewart, Lordou cor.
respondent Of the United Press
LONDON, May 2s.-The fight in the
house Of commons over the bill to de-
prfve tbs horse Of lords of it's veto
power has been the farcest pariian1e1-
tary engagement in English history. It
has also depeioped some extraordinary
things in the way Of parliamentary
procedure
theoretically the British national
legislature. proudly referred to By
BTftoIs as the mother OF psrIia Ia
Is the very home Of free speech and
fair play for everybody. But In prac-
tiees 80 far 1t feast "a the Lord d
veto" contest Is concerned, there has
been very little free speech for anY-
body outside the majority coalition
and no fair play At all for anybody
The situation has. for ore thing.
beer greatly complicated By the Pc
caliar constitution Of the house Of
Commons A liberal cabinet u II
power bgt on the floor OF the house
conservatives oatarn-her tie liberals.
To be exact, there are al present 81
conservatives. o63 liberals, ~ iahorftes
and 50 Irish natioaalises. There are
also two vacant seats, due to the IN
seating Of 2 liberal III n election coy
test and to the elevation 81 war Mn
tster Haldsne 70 the peeraze
The Iaaorite's poIicy has usually
been to act With the liberals and In
the interest 81 Irfsh hor1e RUE, the
rationaHsts have supported tie lfber-
al-I&bor alliance tt strands TO reason,
however, thar two sGea PARTIES ~ the
Eaborites ard TIE Irfss. conscious Ct
their power. would not give their SIP
Fort 70 the liberals without axactirg
substantial guarantees III return. THIS
10 exactly WHIT tney lid, and - n.asr
labor and Irish projects are o5uoxioas
70 the conservatives 10 end of ilLfeaI-
Ing has beer created
Indeed. re conservatives are
not the oaEY ores 10 paara tie EsEor-
jtes and ratforeIists have given o.
ferse. A goa9Iy proport5on Of tfe
liberals hare also h->r exzsuerz5ed
b. tEea TIE administration has
ever beea cfa pellls9 to shagys nr11a-
ae- q it's opn III ptaas 20 sstisfy it's
allies 1t Was onIy BY doing 40 that
T. vas able to work sp ia naslorftY
% f2t}-or any majority - z1i-for TIE
passage q the 'Teto bin
~ the oeta@t tie vsrY rssdora Ct
sEceca AMI action aso1t Taica %
raany boasts are made caasea trouble.
TEe conservatives SCI oef 10 agnt
ever l5ne. letter md cca7naa ii ne
~getoT MEASURE and 10 force dfscas-
aion BY Introducing 1900 odd trivial
amendments VIA. they hea in mind
eas clear enoggh-they meant 70 Talk
the bill To feath
Premier AseEfta promptly resorted
70 the closure. o. guiIlot;ae, "a il Ia
more commnnIy called here. Wien
ever he made up his aafnd that enough
time had been spent in discussion Of
any particular clause. Re has moved
the ~guiliotIne and - sooa a. he
got majority for II, demanded that
the question be put
The conservatives had thefr ansz er
ready for this naaneuver. they simply
replied to t b. pouring in more and
more amendments.
Finally the lineratlabor-nationaIfst
allies made ~ their minds that some
thing must be done 10 facilitate mat.
teFa The premier accordingly deyised
new acheme-the kangaroo, no
ton. with the aid Of the kangaroo
the majority began jumping over
whole patches Of amendments, merely
picking ont fen representative ones