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Show At present it appears impossible that Lord Lanadowne and Mr. Balfour will be able to control their insurgent followers fol-lowers and it is hardly likely that the I iTisis will end without the creation of sirme peers. After Mr. Asquith s statement state-ment in the house of commons today he probably will call a halt for a few days awaiting tha development of tha Union ist feua. VETO BILL SPLITS UNIONIST PARTY LOKDON, July t Not for loof timo ks th abMne of tBttir and uthoriuthr leadership of tha Uaianiit party bn as frankly dlaplaytd. Op a warfare is carried today into the eol-aii eol-aii of the preee. Not aaly ara the Vnloaiit orgaaa arrayed ia two opposite oppo-site rank for and againet tha ao-ealled torreader to tha iaeyitable, bot the reat leaderr ara taking part ia the fray. Viscount Curxoa and Lord Charlee Bereeford hare long letter ia tha papers pa-pers this nornlng, tha forater presenting present-ing many cogent reasons why the party ehould support Lord Lansdowna- and pointing out how the Karl of Hala-bary's Hala-bary's pits of no surrender would be dangerous for the psrty and to the country. He ears that to force a wholo- sals ereatioa of peers would be to expedite expe-dite and render home rule inevitable; that it would facilitate disestablish nent aad replace the reto hill bv a ma chinery infinitely more dangeroue and despotic, without conferring a sialic benefit, present or prosiiertive, on the nation, without eren injuring the government gov-ernment but gratuitously increasing their power for mischief. "It ie bad enough," says Lord Cur-ton, Cur-ton, "that the government already has a large majority in the house of com mons. Where is either the expediency or common sense or the publie advan tage of presenting thsin with a second majority in the house of lords t" Lord Charles Bereeford also supports Lord Lansdowne and advises . the Unionist party "to go into winter quarters.'' Clearly tha next few days will see a great Hint in the ranks of the psrty. Both siuee hsve a strong following and it is impossible to forecast the issue of the struggle. Lord Ualsburv has tha support of th Earl of Selborne, the Marquis of Salisbury and it ia aaid nearly 100 peers, while Austen Chamberlain, the Right Hon. George Wyndham and 8ir Kilward ( arson ara the leaders of an equally strong "no surrender" party in the home of commons. j |