The Irish standard., 1911-05-27
VETO BILL WILL
SOON Be LAW
7. P."OConnor Predicts Its Passage
in House of Lords Brfore
End of July.
Irishmen in England and Scotland
Enthusiastic--Subscribing Lib
orally to Cause.
British Disappointed Over Progress
of the Anglo-American
Peace-Pact.

A cold douchc was given the friends
of Anglo American arbitration by tho
advices from Washington representing
the proposals as less broad than was
anticipated. The inclusion of France,
although not disapproved, would seem
to further reduce the generous scope
of the arbitration, says II. L. O'Connor
in his London dispatch of May 20 to
the Chicago Tribune
Although the overwhelming major
ity Of English opinion still is eagerly
favorable to Il treaty of the largest
possible scope, the question already
has been brought partially into Il par
ty strife, especially by the section rep
resented by the Morning Post.
This section, which is mainly con-
cerned with the preferential tariff re-
sents and still bitterly opposes Amer
ican- Canadian reciprocity and sees in
any such agreement death blow to
it's own policy.
The tariff reforIners naturally aug
mented this tendency against both Of
the treaties among the tories and thus
for the moment this section can safely
oppose the general and strong feeling
1 in England for both the arbitration and
reciprocity treaties.
Supporters Not So Confident.
1t is into this atmosphere of we'll
nursed antagonism that the recent
news of the narrowing of the scope Of
the arbitration on one side and the cx-
tending of it to France on the other
falls, and today, accordingly, the
friends of arbitration plan not so SAN
guinc as for several months past
Rooscvelts dcnunciation increases
this somberncss of feeling. Altogether
and Judging only by today's feeling,
there has come to the arbitration scn-
timcnt the epoch which corresponds to
the waning of honeymoon.
Turning to English affairs. the lib
erals had another week Of brilliant
success. The immense majority Of 121
on the third reading of the veto bill
and the defiant speeches of Premier
Asuuith and Winston Churchill sent
the measure to the house of lords in
triumphant shape and the determine
ton and unity of the ministerial coali-
ton is made more striking by contrast
with the weakness and diSunion Of the
tories.
Lansdownc's reform bill, although
still under discussion, already is dead,
as the liberals will not even take the
trouble to vote against it on second
reading.
But the lords have succeeded so far
the question until after the corona-
ton. Then the crisis must come quick
ly, and now everybody knows exactly
how the crisis will end
The lords will make Il last attempt
to exclude home rule from the veto
bill. This attempt and all such at
tempts at the imitation of the veto al
ready have been scornfully and finally
rejected by As1uith and Churchill.
Bill Soon to Become Law.
Asquith will not have to create the
new peers, and the veto bill, in its
present shape, will be the law by the
end Of July if not before then.
There will open in the autumn the
big home rule fight both sides being
now driven to concentrate on that as
the final issue between the two par
ties. The tories, in their hearts, are
not so violently against home rule cs-
pccially on the federal basis, as for
merly, but they are tied hand and foot
for the moment by the Irish Orange
faction.
The tories, too. have not yet aban-
doned the hope that a discussion of
the details may break the unity be-
tween the liberal ministry and the
Irish or may detach some few Of the
] liberals of shaky loyalty.
think there Is little ground of a
realization OF either hope. The liberal
ministry is thoroughly friendly and
loyal to the Irish, and in the liberal
ranks there are only three liberals at