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Show VETO BBi MOST CERTAIN TO PASS LONDON. Aug. t.The progress of the veto bill toward the crista next week Is now coming Into clearer light. Vtsx-unt Morely today published a list of seventy-six seventy-six Liberal peers who have promised to support tlte government In passing the measure. A meeting today of Unionist peers who favor supporting the government, presided over by Viscount St. Aldwyn. formerly Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, decided that It would not be advisable to take organised organ-ised action In voting, but to laavo each peer to act on his own discretion. This may add ten or more votes to the gov-ernment gov-ernment strength, making eighty-six to , ninety In favor of the mfsjn.re. The only I Itet of names which followers of the sari I of ffaisbury have pubitahed gives sixty, eight. Indlcstlng a majority nf between ten and twenty for the measure. The Insurgents field crowded meetings last night at Holbeorn and 7hela. at which the earl of Halsbury. the eaii of Selbome, Austen Chamberlain and Sir Charles Wyndham denounced the government govern-ment for what they termed revolutionary proceedings in dragging King Oeerge into the mire of politics at the behest of John Redmond, the Irish leader. Resolutions pledging a "no surrender" policy were carried, amid scenes of Intense enthusiasm. |