The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-07-25
PREMIER
ASQU|TH
RAPS FOES
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Prime Minister Gives Summary
Of Speech He Was Prevented
From Delivering

H.
Monday night issued to the newspap
| ers a summary of the speech he was
| prevented from delivering In tht
| mousse Of commons. In 1t he contend
ed that the principles OF the machin
cry Of the bill had been before the
people at two elections. by no form
OF referendum devisable could the
opinion OF the electorate house be
more carefully ascertained.
The government had accepted the
important amendments In the house
Of commons; the purpose OF the
lords amendments was to set the
machinery aside. The government
mad proposed specifically to describe
what We're fnarce bills; the lords
proposed to create committee,
which the premier described as a
lunta, to determine what We're finance
Dlils, and what were matters OF grave
gravity whatever that might mean
which would be put before the coun.
try by referendum. There was not a
great budget of the last seventy
years, which could not plausibIy have
been thrown out by such a junta.q
i When you have a unionist majority
III both houses, continued the prime
minister, the whole thing becomes
"a dead letter Measures Of the most
farteaching effect may be passed III
defiance OF public opinion and over
the heads OF the electorate You live
under an unchecked and undiluted
lsingle chamber government, fettered
beyond all its predecessors, In con
| trol OF finance, and in all cases where
an irresponsible and non-representa.
ltlye body, independent of both hons
rs, should so determine every dead
lock will he settled only by referen-
dunn
These amendments added Mr..
Asqnith taken as whole amount
to rejection OF our hills"
Peers to be Created
After quoting constitutional writ.
ers and the history OF the passage III
the reform bin by William ~, he
gave his promise 10 create enough
peers TO insure the passage OF the
present bill
A, J. Balfour, leader Of the oppos
tion, in reply to the speech the pre-
lnier was unable to make, received 4
quiet hearing He was somewhat
apologetic. He went on TO denonnee
the policy Of the government, when
he was interrupted by the home sec
retary, Winston Churchill. MI Bal
four turned hotly upon the home Sec
retary and said he remembered him
is the ringleader of gang of dis
.ulbers, who, when an unconstiution
Al question was at stake Kept Il min.
ster standing an hour without allow
ng word to be heard
Mr. Baltour reminded the house
hat the parliamentary bill mad not
been rejected by the house OF lords
The prime minister seems assur
ID that the constitution provides for
he creation OF peers as the ordinaryl !
machinery for dealing with a dead :
ock between the two aOUses, ne con. !
inued Il admit that revolutions
nay be necessary but the prime min
ster is destroying the prerogative OF
he crown and the Independence ol
4e house of lords at one stroke-not 4
o avert war or to carry measures :
'hich the masses Of the people are
assionately desirous of-but for one +,
bject only, TO prevent the people OF 4,
his country from expressing any new :
erdict on a question which they had I
vice before expressed in their YER =
ict on home rule With a light =
cart the prime minister puts the Il
roWn under comnuaion, on an excuse
b tumpery and contemplate that ~
would not Justify the creation ol a
ngle peer
Mr. Balfour accused Premier AS
lirh of dragging the crown in the
ist and of abusing the confidence of
le sovereign.