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Show London Newspaper Declares Constitutional Crisis Caused by Americans. i BALFOUR WANTS PEERS WHO -RENDER PUBLIC SERVICE Says House of Lords Should Be Restricted to Men Who Do Tilings. LONDON, Nov. 17. Politically this was an uneventful day with thu exception excep-tion of Arthur J. 33alfour's speech at Nottingham, which was awaited with keen anticipation as an exposition of the Unionists' election programme. Curiosity was aroused as to whether tho Uniouist leader would make auy new departure on the 'Irish question. Tt was quickly evident that except on the question of" the reform of the house of lords, on which the Unionist party is now firmly committed to Lord Roso-bcry's Roso-bcry's scheme, thc Unionist platform stands tho same as at the last general election in all its planks. Mr. Balfour referred only incidentally to the home rule question, but sufficiently suffi-ciently indicated he was in as complete opposition to it as ever. Thus the Unionist election policy iu the maiu will be to' pit reform of the house of lords against thc Liberals' demand for abolition aboli-tion of tho veto power of thc lords. Amorican Dollars Blamed. Tho situation betweeu the opposing forces tonight appears less aggravated. There is a disposition on the part of the Liberal side to give the peers a longer -time to debate thc veto bill, possiblv oven to thc extent of admittiug a reasonable amendment provided this did not interfere with thc principle of thc bill. Mr. Balfour has now set tho seal of his approval on the adoption of "American "Amer-ican dollnrs" us a Unionist 'election Thc Standard in an editorial declares there would be no constitutional crisis, but for this American subsidisation of the Nationalists. "It, is 'Redmond's, not Asquith s crisis cri-sis " savs the paper. "Redmond's natrons na-trons are not the poor, like Parncll's, but the aflluent. It is the American business num. tho American capitalist and millionaire who are financing the homo rule party for purposes f their own. Thev do not love England, and thov want" to prevent tho adoptiou of tariff .reform. " . . ,. , Mr. Hal four in his Nottingham speech said that the house of lords membership shoul'd be reduced to men of public service. serv-ice. There should ' also be an element: elected bv tho peers and another cle-mnt cle-mnt equal to the other Iwo. represent-in" represent-in" the 'great bodies of public opinion. He opposed a wholly elective second chamber, becauso it would usurp thc position po-sition of the first. ADOPT RESOLUTIONS FOE-REFORMED FOE-REFORMED HOUSE OF LORDS' LONDON. Nov. 3 7, In parliament today Lord C'ur.on strongly urged the adoption of resolutions for a reformed upper house in which the hereditary element would not exercise a preponderate preponder-ate influence. Baron Courtucy disagreed with Ihc view of the government that tho constitutional consti-tutional conference luuing failed, it was impossible for parliament to roach au agreement. He deplored a threat, had been made to take the matter out of tho hands of parliament and to appeal to the mail in the street. ( . . The resolutions carried without division divi-sion are as follows: lursl That the house of lords shall Continued on Page Two 111"! j BRITONS BLAME MM ' : YANKEE DOLLAR j Continued from. Page One. I! jjjl consist of lords of parliament (a) chos- p !. ll1! en by the whole body of hereditary J X i M ll peers from among themselves and by St ' ' 5 ill! nomination by the crown; (b) those l lit j J , ' I sitting by virtue of their offices an'd h U : jl qualifications held by them, and (c) ! : i U j those chosen from outside. II K. i.i I Second That the term of tenure of flu 5il J all- lords in parliament shall be tho ,ii r J l same except in the case of thoso sitting i3ri i , j extofneio. who would sit only as long IIS t 51 j ' as fhey hold oflice by reason of which 'If ll ; g thy . |