| Show HOUSE OUSE Of LORDS AS DEfEATED TE BUDGET LondonO No Nor House ot of Lords tonight for the In years oan refused Its formal assent to I the budget thereby making It Illegal for the kings agents to collect taxes with which to carry on the govern goern government ment This action of oC the peers was taken In direct disregard of the advice of such able members as l oror Mor I Iy Icy Lord James o of Herford Lord era Cro Cromer mtr mer Lord Balfour of oC Burleigh the earl or of Lytton Lord Courtney and the archbishop of Canterbury and York The Thc budget will now go baroro the country countr for Its approval or reJection that Is th tb crown through the min mii will dissolve the house of corn com commons mons and order a general election the present liberal house and ministry shall be sustained In Insist InsistIng log Ing on the tho budget wm will be the tho issue In Inthe inthe the contest at the tho polls After six days dars debate debato notable for forth forthe th the J high standard ot of thu tho oratory as aswell I w well lI as Cor or for and against I tb the budget an and placing In over every pos possible I I sible light the great I I questions Involved the house of lords I I for division at half past cloven I clock tonight I Scene I Impressive I The scene was impressive but In Inno inno I no sense exciting except that the I house was as pricked to Its utmost en ca I A great array or of strange faces was waR seen on tile the benches as numbers I of peers were present who appear In Inthe inthe the house only In most exceptional ti laos None would have hae supposed that the event was destined not only to prove In iii the tho annals of British history hut but would Involve tar far reaching changes In tile the British con I I Indeed there was unusual animation In ill the public galleries whiCh ero I crowded with members ot of the House of oC C Commons and ambas ambassadors sa dors But Blit on tIle the floor Hoor Itself completo calm led The vote yote was on Lord Lorl that tile the house bouse was not nol justified In giving its consent t to the bill until It had been een submitted to the Judgment t of the country countr Nearly Nearl 15 minutes were occupied In clearIng the house tellers for division being Earle Viscount Churchill Baron I Denman and Lord Colebrooke Few Cheers for or Vote When the vote yoto was announced before mIdnight as to 75 In n a nor or of the amendment a few mixed cheers were heard The earl carl of Crews immediately an a adjournment and the house rose roseAn roseAn An eager crowd was walling waiting the tho result lU in the UlO central hall ball and when the vote yoto became known was a slight attempt at counter Collater tion however speedily cleared tile the hall hail and amI In a row fo mIn mill itou the lobbies and precincts wore empty It Il is worthy of note that Lord Urd St StA A Aldwyn dw n who llo as Michael Hicks Beach was one of the ablest chancellors of exchequer the ot of the sIde ba has assented himself from all debates s on Lord resolutions and this morning he an announced his Intention notto So go to the tho hOlls for division His IUs abstention was as clue lue to disapproval of Lord Lans I downes course courso and together with that of weighty conservative I peers will have havo great greut effect In the tho country Among peers who came Iowa down especially to voto was th thearl I earl carl of Wemyss and March wIle who Is In I his year car Crowds Remain Quiet I When division was taken lalen there was waH I practically no excitement In the streets although earlier In ill the night crowds lathered gathered near tile the house and attempted a A force of police was hi readi readiness ness and so soon ns as the crowd showed a tendency to become they dispersed the thc demonstration be beInS lug InS assisted d by br a heny heavy rainfall The final anal debate was distinguished h by oratorical excellence particularly lii In tho speeches of Lord Curzon of Ked ICed former viceroy of India an and o ollic of the arch archbishop of York Tile The arch archul ul bi speech was his maiden effort In House of Lords and Its elo do periods added to Dr Langs fine fino presence and beautiful voice I Imade made a deep The rhe archbishop strongly opposed I LOrd Lold resolution tion declarIng Ing that It would be bc the for or the lords to reject a finance bill passed b by the house of commons with such Ruch a t majority Lord Curzon was plainly suffering roar from his recent Indisposition and hall had hadt to t asic the Indulgence of the house but despite weakness which 8 times In his ninety minutes 15 sPeech threatened to OlhO lie ho spoke with his accustomed vigor hor horand and ut art lIe maintained that the tho lords absolute right to reject the nn fin aice bill anc and ho agreed that the tho coun country try was on the ova 00 of a 0 struggle which might load lond to the rel re reform form of tile tho house of lords C Cawdor Winds Up Deb Debate I Earl Cawdor wc or formerly lord of who wound up tile the debate for the Uto opposition that I there had been beon an attempt to evade I Ithe the lords lorla ancient right to reject each ta tax b by placing all taxes on one bill billIL IL wu Idle to pretend lie he that such n a change of procedure h by the tho house of lords could effect ono one Iota responsIbilities and duties of the tho see Bee chamber Ho quoted Premier A Asquith as I stating staling on assuming the tho premiership that the tbt function or of the tho I of lords was to check slovenly legislation Tills This Earl I Caw Cawdor or thought fairly represented the tho action the lords proposed to take Referring to t tacking on license pro and land valuations to lo the bud budget Met get ho he said that fiS as both these had previously been rejected by the house hoose or of lords It would d destroy all the pow power I Ier er of the upper house honse If the lords were I unable to veto thic finance bill In InI I I I which were not Included Ho HoI lb asserted the thc budget already hat had driven capital from the country to alarming I e had stunned the tho building trade i and had Increased unemployment I They were ere told that the r reJection o of the bill would woul cause financial chaos hut Lord offer of assist I Ian an anco co to avoid nold had not I been beon cordially received uy by the govern mont Therefore he said tr if chaos came the responsibility would rest upon the ministry The government I wanted n a single chamber independent ent I of any check while the lords had been i lighting for one principle thu I separation of the judicial and admin admill functions Tile The Lord cd could get et rid of oC the tho decision of the second chamber b by an election but tho they could get rid or of an autocratic single chamber chambor only uy by revolution The Earl a of Crewe of state for tile tho colonies and lord privy seal closed the tho debato In a speech fre frequently interrupted b hy ministerial cheers Lord amend mont lie Iw contended vas the negation or of all precedent It was necessary to raise a largo amount of extra money moner hy by taxation necessitated uy by bythe the claims of national defense and the adoption of old age pensions Tile The sum total of Ute tile long debate he the de dared was that the opposition con considered the tho method un unwise unwise wise |
