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Show Business of New Parliament, Which Opens Tuesday, Subject Sub-ject Under Discussion. 'JOHN REDMOND'S POWER IS GROWING APACE Will Hold Up Budget Until Question of the Lords' Veto Is Settled. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Fob. 12. Premier Asquith held a .conference lasting more than an hour with King Edward at Brighton this afternoon. They discussed the projected business of tho new parliament and the prepared speech from the throne, which will open the coming session. Of course, the result of the conference Is held strictly strict-ly for cabinet members, and no Inkling of It can be secured. Parliament will moot Tuesday and It will not bo until a week later that tho preliminary work will be cleared away and the real work of tho session will begin. be-gin. The llrat business when parliament convenes will bo tho examination of tho vnuiis uiiucr u csimmsicr paiace. xms has not been done since tho time of Guy Fawkes. The rcmnlnder of the week Is devoted to the tedious process of swearing in and other preliminary work. Then perhaps a week from Monday the king will formally for-mally open parliament. John Hcdmond is by long odds the" most Interesting figure In London todny. Ho has the nbsoluto power to make or unmako the government govern-ment and will wield n potent influence in shnping tho course to bo taken In parliament. Mr. Redmond said today: "The restriction of the lords' veto Is an cssentlnl erudition precedent to the passage of the homo rule bill. Therefore, There-fore, wo have decided that the house of lords' veto must be dealt with beforo the budget Is. To pass the budget and then attompt to deal with the lords' veto would bo to court failure. Nothing has happened hap-pened or 1 may odd. Is likely to happen hap-pen to alter my judgment on that point. Every factor in tho situation should combine com-bine to convince tho Liberal cabinet that to adopt that view of the present crisis Is tho only possible course consistent not only with safety, but with honor. "This Is a situation demanding hold and determined action, but not formalism formal-ism and finesse. Tho electors wero appealed ap-pealed to on tho veto. They declared by a great majority that It must go and the cabinet would be falso to their mandate man-date If they turned their first attention to tho budget. "Wo Irishmen, at any rate, won't bo false to our mondnte. which Is to accelerate accel-erate home rule; and the veto, being the hitherto Insuperable objection, wo arc for Its removal first of all." |