New Britain herald., 1916-12-06


 Used, Disenfranchising Four Million New Voters-Labor Party Leader in B RevoIt-Sir Edward Carson Wires \ Constituents Denying Being Party \ to Political Deal.
 & London, Dec. 6, 12:47-The Ex- "a change Telegraph company says it x has authority for the statement that | Bonar Law has declined the offer to form government.
 8 The Westminster Gazette says that # Andrew Bonar Law has declined the d Invitation of the king to form a cab # met, and that presumably David Lloyd # George will be called on.
 S Public on Qui Vive. The public is awaiting with the
 greatest interest the next step in the political cisis.
 Ordinarily the selection by the king T of a leader such as MT. Bonar Law to form a new ministry would be talk Ca as solution but from the first there was some doubt whether the
 unionist leader could succeed in the
 stask assigned to him, or whether he could command the support of a ma Jor1ty in the house of commons if he ! did form a cabinet The nationalists,
 who withdrew their support from
 Premier Asquith because of his failure
 t9Icarry out the agreem ent made by Lloyd George for bringing home rule \ into force immediately, would have #rhad been likely to follow cabinet of & which the upnionist leader was the
 chief and in which Sir Edward Car son was included. Their support ! might be attained by granting their & demands regarding Ireland and it 8 Eas even said, Sir Edward was a par tysto this, but the Ulster leader tele- graphed to his supporters in Belfast a fiat denial of the report saying: 'The proposals attributed to me | are without foundation. Ulster men know my views and my ! unabated & loyalty to them"
 WardIe Jumps Over Traces. N Another difficulty was presented by T the labor party whose leader George NWdle announced yesterday, the in tention of the labor members in the & house of commons to support MT. As k quith. They are meeting today to make final decision.
 Bonar Law the Stronger. The Manchester Guardian, which N generally voices the opinion of the E provincial members, expressed the S GSSnion that MT. Bonar Law would be more likely to effect com bination which the house of commons would support than Lloyd George would be, and added there was no reason to be- lieve Lloyd George had any ambitions for the task. The Guardian which supports Lloyd George, says that in a latter to MT. Asquith he took the sssand that man could not act both as premier! and as a member of the war council, which would have to sit morning and evening and deal with a 'the terribly urgent war problems. "a The hope is, expressed generally Fl that an election will be avoided, on & account of the delay and of interfer- 2 srsce with the business of war. Should an election be compulsory it would $ be held under a three-year-old regis ter, so that four million new voters would be disfranchised.
 Predict Asquith's Return 3 Whether MT. Lloyd George, whose Y action led to the disruption of the B cQaItlon government and the resig- nation of MT. Asquith, would have any greater success in forming a minis 8 try than MT Bonar Law, is a question which has not been answered. Politi- cal correspondents predict that MT Asqutth will be back at the head ot q the government before many days & MT. Asquith takes a majority of the Liberal ministers with him in his re. E tWment, MT. Lloyd George being as & sured of the support of only Herbert Samuel, the home secretary Edwin Montague, minister of munitions some of the junior ministers, includ. mentary under secretary for muni & tfons, and a smalls section of the par.
 sty known as the ginger group" I VI iS not believed possible Mr. Lloyt George would have any more success with the labor mem bers than did MT Il Bonar Law, the parliamentary core spondent while the attitude of a largt part of the unionist party is doubtful s MT. Bonar Law, Sir Edward Carsol and the Earl of Derby probably would T not act under MT. Lloyd George, a1 they supported his ultimatum to Pre- nier Asquith regarding the formation of smaller war council.
 Resignation Taken Calmly. The Westminster Gazette says Pre- rnier Asquith's resignation was not re (Continued On Eleventh Page).