Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-12-07 | Page 4 | British Politics

l POLITICS I I It Ie e that the UIe new w British h hI IJo house e of Commons Comen which me meets eta next I month will n convene With a comparatively unchanged Liberal majority rUM Just what has been feen gained by bJ an ap appeal peal to the country It Is not so entirely clear to the m mind who finds And American politics or of nu no I t In Inthe inthe the way or of understanding but who Is rather mUter at the deductions tt that the P w writers draw trout tIN the results or of their per JIU eoa contests t C lithe the prune Ing of the power of et the u of Lords was a tOft foregone ne eo party was wall returned to te power or Liberal tile the elec election tion seems to have e been n held to decide upon the detail The struggle which bleb h has been en going Oil on In Greet Britain for tor ever oyer A huncl hundred 7 years IR In the Introduction In the Rowe lIe or of Commons Common of the veto bill This TIt JIt measure re takes from th the House of et Lords LonI It Its power to veto an any Jegl legislation was repugnant nant to the Ideas or oc I its I members The Liberal ministry favored the veto bill 1111 but It met with much opposition on the part or of the at Arst the bR back backbone k bone ot of the CG Conservative I party nat naturally being the of the House or of Lords Lorell Durin During the months of debate dete that have haft followed the Con on oJ ba has been slowly beaten down clown until the question n he tween th the two cane to hI he a amere mere ere matter of detail as to th the method to be used In curtailing the power or of ortIN tIN the Le Lome 8 It S Is po and probable ble as 8 th the of oC the British elections that the H of et Lards will alit be d rf e et t three e lit U the e future and will willbe m be tors ore responsive to th the will willor or of the people There will be the hereditary peers peez u as usual I there will willbe be peen appointed by lOng King George and there wm will bo be Oth othora 8 selected with the consent ent of who hold hereditary IUT ary titles KIng George will mn probably tree the same lame weapon that King Wil William liam threatened 10 to use aee years ago aKO when he be bent the House of Lords Lona to It ide will by declaring that ho he howo wo would ld name Rame enough ne new peers to give him th the majority that favored his 1118 wi The Th great parties In English poUt politics therefore wm return to In January with their po positions unchanged The country has hAIl endorsed the Liberal policy and I Prim PrIaM Minister A win find his haa power much greater ter than In the put pest I Of a however the ancient power POWel of the Lords Lom is I prone gOne