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Show VETO CRISIS BITERS ITS ill Opposition Leader Balfour Mores Vote of Censor for Gorernmentv PREMIER ASQUITH WELCOMES THE MOVE House Galleries Crowded and Riral Leaders Are Wildly Cheered. LONDOJT, Ang. las pbaaa af tM TlgHt "trutr tt fflwwr n tarad on la tha htroaa af comimooa this aftanawa. whan A. J. Balfoaj, laadar of tha ppoattoa, mora a row) of canaraTi for tba gorarnniant. Tha chamber waa filled to It capacity. capac-ity. Peeri and dl.tingni.hed atraagar war praaaat la larg awnbora. Tk diplomati aad ladiaa', gallariaa war filled, tb oecapaata laeludlng American Ameri-can Embaaaador Bald aad otkar diplomat. dip-lomat. Mr. Balfoar'a motion, of wklck ka gave notiea oa Angnat , follow: "That th advice given hi maieetv by hi majesty 's minis tar, whereby they obtained from ai majesty a pledge that a sufficient number of peer would b created to pan. the parliament bill ia the ahapa in which It left thi houee, ia a grow violation of the eoa.titutional liberty by which among other ill cons auoneea, th people will be precluded from again pronouncing oa tk policy of home rule." Balfour Baoalvwa Ovation. Tk rival leaders wsr lowdly cheered aa they entered the room aad Mr. Balfour Bal-four received aa ovation a ho row to fireeent ki motion. Tk former Union-st Union-st premier emphasised that he wa conscious con-scious of the gravity of the aitaatioa aad the aeriousasea of the step which he asked th house te take. He tbengkt that it would be admitted tkat never in history had there been a mora serious ease or one wkiek more urgently deserved, de-served, or iadeod required, tb coneid-eratioa coneid-eratioa of parliament and th mphUe condemnation of tha minuter. "Tbe ministers," aaid Mr. Balfour, "have grossly abused their right of deiaiag th -erown i and by aliening those right pat them eel ve above th intittion. They kavg acted whilly without precedent' not k Mfc Balfour conceived, ia -order, to meat any -gnat question of state, but -'"ia order te further fur-ther a party agreement between, differ-ent differ-ent section, which support them and in order to prevent tbe people of th country from pronouncing their opinion k nm Ml. " . . OaUa flropcwad YOTn "S9ra, Th Unloniat leader aaMrted that the ministry had placed the sovereign who kd just com to tba throne in a cruel poeition. The king was a fount - of honor, but the government by their advice ad-vice had poisoned tbe stream at Its sou res. He dubbed the proponed new peers "supers in thla sordid drama." Mr. Balfour declared that it would be difficult to eoneciv of aay politician piavinga meaner or more contemptible part. He contended thnt the question of home rule bed never been before th country throughout th controversy. There waa aot the .lightest justification for tba creation of peer tb eanble the government to earrv it through both bouses without a reference to the people. peo-ple. It wa contrary to all opinion of constitutional legislative chamber to put both chamber, in th hand of th executive te manipulate as they liked it, wa a wholly ancenstitutionnl nietked of dealing with deadlock, for tka prime (Continued oa page 10.) " VETO CRISIS (Continued from page I.) - mi ister to adrias th king to pack the upper house with hired voters, W1U Bear rroxn Coxartry. Mr. Balfour oooeiudea wits (no pbopheey that the country would soon let the Radicals know that it would not allow a repetition of the "crime of 1911." Premier Asoulth, ia reply, jeeringly thsnked Mr. Balfour for ''this opportune oppor-tune though unexpected motion." It was th vary thing that th government wanted. The prims minister dispelled the fog by which the etreumaianaea uader which ha had obtained the guarantee from th king had been nemnateatiy ob. scored by th opposition. "It was my strong hope snd belief," he said, " that the lords would accept the bill and only when that hope waa frotfted, aa it wae last moath, his majesty was asked sad consented, if it wa necessary, to exercise his prerogative. preroga-tive. We took the only course consistent con-sistent with honor and a true regard for th dignity of the-crown." |