The Irish standard., 1911-07-08
CREATION OF PEERS
INEVITABLE COURSE
Liberals Determined to Have Done
With Impudent Attempts of
Dying Aristocracy.
Creation of New Peers Admitted by
Tories Now to be the Prob
able Solution.
Rumors of Another General Election
Rife a Few Weeks Ago no
Longer Whispered.

The peers have taken the course
which the Liberals all along hoped
that good sense and prospects of in
evitablc disaster would prevent them
from taking. Cabling from London,
July 1, to the Chicago Tribune T. p.
OConnor says:
All sense seems abandoned by the
peers. Their mutilation Of the veto
bill this week was more daring than
their worst enemy could anticipate.
Instead OF yielding their pretensions
they augmented them SO that if the
veto bill in its present shape was
passed the financial control of the
house of commons would be entirely
gone and the omnipotence of the house
Of lords over everything placed in as
inlpregnable position. The first sensa-
ton Of the liberals at the announce
ment OF these preposterous demands
was puzzled incredulity, but the second
impression was a harder and fiercer
determination to have done with once
and for ALL these ridiculous and i'm
pudent attempts of a dying aristocracy
by return to life again. Today this
of the supporters of the ministry hope
the ridiculous farce will be cut short
in the middle of its performance and
that the house of lords will be warned
without further parleyings. The only
point really now in doubt is the pre-
else moment when Premier Asquith
will strike the final decisive blow.
Some of the liberals advise that the
lords be allowed to go right on to the
end heaping up bigger proof each Sue
ceeding day.
Other liberals think that Asquith
should stop their gallop abruptly by
the announcement of the determina-
tion not to accept single one of their
proposals and the determination of
Asquith to Immediately ask from the
king the new peers necessary to make
a liberal majority in the house of lords.
Even the tories now know that this is
the inevitable end of the conflict.
Rumors of Election Killed.
Last week panicky rumors of new
general election in few weeks were
everywhere rife; this week such rum
ors are no longer even whispered.
There has come a cleavage even in
tory members of the house of COM
mons The tory commoners all are
sick of the prospect of another general
election with the certainty that the
tory party will lose more seats, but
the tory peers, having no dread Of the
constituencies, broke loose and thus
ed of the house of lords going on as if
there had not been two elections which
smashed their pretensions.
The other rumor that, because Of
his antagonism to home rule, that the
king would refuse the new peers to
help pass the veto bill, which flourish
ed proudly last week, also thinned
down this week to mere frightened
whisper.
Dynasty Would Be Issue.
Everybody knows if the King adopt
ed such an insane policy his dynasty
would become the one issue at the next
election and Englishmen while enthu-
siastically loyal to the throne when it
remains within it's sphere, would be-
come extremely ugly, especially in the
England if the royalty are suspected
of becoming partisan to the aristoc-
racy against popular rights.
This ministry like all ministries does
not escape some small troubles. A di-
vision of opinion about the parliament
of members led to the rumor that the
ministry was going to drop the pro-
posal. This produced promptly re-
volt in the labor ranks and Asquith
will be sharply questioned Monday.
The proposal to rush the insurance
bill by drastic closure also was re-
sented and has been withdrawn, but
these are trifles.
/ sum up the general situation az
meaning that, either Immediately or