The Montgomeryshire Express and Radnor Times

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. Change of Front by the Government. Grave Crisis. His Majesty, who was accompanied by the Queen, on Monday opened in state the third Parliament of his reign. In his Speech from the Throne his Majesty alluded to the forthcoming South African tour of the Prince of Wales, and went on to say that arrangements mu-t be made to deal at the earliest possible moment with the national finances. He then referred to the differ- ences between the two Houses of Parliament, and said said: "Proposals will be laid before you with all convenient speed to define the relations between the Houses of Parliament so as to secure the undivided authority of the House of Commons over finance and its I predominance in legislation. These mea- bures, in the opinion of my advisers, should provide that this House of Lords should be so constitutrd and empowered as to exercise impartially in regard to proposed legisla- tion the functions of initiation, revision, and, subject to proper safeguards, of delay." THE LORDS TALK. In the House of Lords Lord Farrer moved the Address in reply, and Lord Saye and Sele seconded. The Marquis of Lansdowne criticised the Indian policy of the Government. Afterwards, defending the action of that House in rejecting the Budget of last session, he twitted the Government with being a party of sections, and discounted the verdict of the general election, and then dis- cussed the relations ot the two Houses. The Earl of Crewe said the first duty of the Government would be to attend to the pressing financial calls of the moment. 11 PEERS AT ELECTIONS. In the Rome of Commons the first business was an amendment of the sessional order pro- posed by Mr L. Hardy, which had the effect of withdrawing the prohibition that peers should take no part in elections. This was supported by a number of members, and Mr Asquith said the Government left it an open question. The amend- ment was carried without a division. Mr Percy Illingwoith then briefly moved the Address in reply to the King's Speech, and Mr C. E. Pried* seconded Mr Balfour, after a criticism of both the brevity and the language of the Speech, denied that the result of the general election had been a decided verdict for the Government on any point. He alleged also that Home Rule had been used just enough to pacify Nationalists without alarming others. WHAT HE MEANT BY "SAFEGUARDS." Then came the Prime Minister, who admitted that, apart from finarcial measures, the only question upon which they intended to make pro- posals to Parliament was the question of the relations cf the two Houses. They had also asked the country to restore to this House undisputed supremacy in finance in the first place, and in the next that the absolute veto which the Lords now possessed over legislation should disappear. That change must be brought about by an Act of Parliament, and then Mr Asquith proceeded, in a passage which was listened to with the profound- est interest, to explain what he meant by the safeguards to which be had referred in his Albert Hall speech. These safeguards, he said, must be embodied in an Act of Parliament assented to by King, Lords, and Commons. An impression seemed to have been created that he had meant that thn Government should ask the Crown for a guarantee of the contingent exercise of the Royal prerogative. I have received, he declared in the most emphatic manner, no such guarantees, and I have af-ked for no such guarantees, and he added that it was the duty of a responsible statesman to keep the prerogative of the Sovereign outside the region of party politics. THE IRISH REVOLT. After the Prime Minister came Mr Redmond. Everyone knew that he was the master of the position, and that on his action the fate of the Government and the Budget depended. He adhered to the statement which he made in his Dublin speech, and declared that the whole country understood Mr Asquith's Albert Hall speech as a pledge that guarantees, safeguards, or whatever they might be called, would be asked from the Crown He made it quite clear that unless Mr Asquith obtained the guarantees for which he asked, the Irish party would vote against the Budget. He held out the hope, however, that if the resolutions on the House of Lords were also moved in the Upper House and rejected, and the Government would then ask for guarantees from the Crown, the Irish party would do nothing in the meantime to disturb the Government. LABOUR AND THE LORDS. Mr Barnes, chairman of the Labour party, strongly criticised Mr Asquith's speech in so far as it formulated proposals for dealing with the House of Lords. He said the speech of the Prime Minister in the Albert Hall led everybody to believe that prompt and drastic measures would be taken with the Upper House. The Labour party wanted that House abolished root and branch. They wanted an assurance that the bold policy would be taken before next year's Budget was brought in. ON THE DEFENCE. Mr Winston Churchill explained how it was the Budget could not be used to bring pressure on the Lords. Refusal of supply by the Commons would produce an instant deadlock, and would expose the refusers to swift and blinding catastrophe. They could not coerce the Lords by withholding proposals to which the Lords themselves most strongly objected. Passing of the Budget was vital to the scheme of Liberal reforms. But they would deal with the Lords, and the Government would stake their existence on their proposals in regard to that importart reform. LIBERALS REVOLT. Mr Keir Hardie said in regard to the Navy the Government were evidently yielding to the manu- factured clamour of the Yellow Press. He de- clared that the Government bad been elected not to reform but to destroy the House of Lords.—Sir A. Spicer expressed his concurrence with the views of Mr Barnes.-Mr Hemmerde warmly opposed the proposals of the Government, saying the fruits of a victory obtained upon the pledge that the Lords' veto was to be dealt with were being frittered away. TARIFF TAXES ONCE MORE. Resuming the debate on the Address, Mr Austen Chamberlain moved the Opposition amendment, a copy of that of last year, in favour of Tariff Reform. He reminded his hearers that whilst four years ago the Government's Free Trade motion was carried by 478 votes to 98, the present House contained no majority for our existing fiscal system, if the question were taken on its merits. Such was the great and rapid progress achieved by the new fiscal policy. Developing his argument, Mr Chamberlain addressed himself to the removal of two mis- conceptions-that Tariff "Reformers" desire to create the trusts and to diminish the total of our oversea trade. After dealing faithfully with the Prime Minister's economic fallacies, he turned to the "coarser methods" of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, vigorously denouncing some of the gross misrepresentations," especially in regard to Germany, of the recept electoral campaign. THE IRISH VIEW. In his reply to this exposition, the new President of the Board of Trade relied chiefly on the improved trade returns, and on figures which he quoted with the object of showing that a duty on wheat meant a tax on food. The Government, he declared, would be ready to defend its Free Trade principles whenever the question was raised.—Put up to speak for the Nationalists, Mr Kettle freely chaffed the Opposition, and bluntly declined to believe in the good faith of Tariff Reformers in regard to Ireland. Irishmen were offered a choice be- tween two diseases, not remedies; neither Birmingham nor Manchester was in Ireland.— Then followed Mr Macdonald on behalf of the Labour party, asserting that high prices andf high rents ware the first essential results Tariff Reform, claiming that the great indust centres had remained firm in their adhesion to Free Trade, and accusing Tariff Reformers of having contribute more than anyone else to the creation of panic. Ju-t as Mr Kettle's moral had been Home Rule, Mr Macdonald's waa the Right to Work Bill. A NEW SPEAKER. Mr Monrl criticised th- preference ideas indi- cated by Opposition speakers, and showing how tariffs raised prices, quoting Mr Balfour on the corn tax in proof of his wrgument. Protectionists were decrying the trade of the country and dis- turbing it seriously, knd that, cerainly, would not cure uneibp'-oym,,nt. Mr S. Storey said tariffs would enable tbun to get back to the natural conditions of industry which Adam Smith demanded as the first condition of prosperity.— Mr Brace protested against the cruel and very nearly criminal way the despair of working met had been exploited by politicians. A FUL L-B LO W N P ROTECTIONIST ? Mr Balfour denied that Conservatives had said all import- duties were paid by the foreigner, but claimed that under somn conditions some part of the duty would be p-oid by the foreigner. He claimed, also, that import taxes v c jld result in a greater portion of our people uting profitable employment, and that was :De fundamental benefit, he alleged, which tariffs would produce.— Mr Runciman pointed out how America had lost her shipping trade through t1 iffs, and how our exports showed a greater proportion of manufac- tured articles and our imports a smaller per- centage than in the case of Germany. The great thing about tariffs was the inevitable corruption of public life. "THE LITTLE WELSH LAWYER." The Chancellor of the Exchequer wound up the debate for the Government in a bright, sparkling speech. Rarely has the right hen. gentleman addressed the House with more humour aad vivacity, and in his treatment of the German aspect ot the ques ion he kept the House in roars of laughter. When the first duty on corn was imposed by Prince Bismarck he said that it would not increase the price of bread. That hope had been disappointed, and, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, amid much laughter, where Prince Bismarck failed, Mr Balfour was not likely to succeed. He made the Unionists rather atigry by the way in which he discussed their references to carrion and black bread in Germany. He asked gentlemen opposite if they denied that black bread was used in Germany, snH, if thy did, he suggested that they were colour blind. They seemed to think that it was a very appetising food, but, if so, he advised them to get two or three loaves, and give a chunk to the first- tramp that passed, and they would soon get lid of him. Then he quoted statistics as to the use of horse and dog flesh in Germany, and a*ked if it was not carrion. He warned gentlemen opposite that in France not only horseflesh, but donkey flesh, was used. If Protection did not brir!g black bread to Germany, it at any rate kept it there. NOT A BIG MAJORITY. Mr Lloyd George's pppeh was loudly cheered by the Ministerialist-, and after speeches from Mr Bonar Law and Mr J. R. Macdonald, the amenduaent in favour of Protection was rejected by 285 votes against 254. The Irishmen ftfrain(-cl from voting. #

Montgomeryshire Infirmary Mew Building Fund. manafon. The collectors have now handed in their accounts to the Secretary and Treasurer, which were as follows :—Dwyrhiew Township, by Mr W. Jones, Pendwyrhiew, and Mr R Watkins, Ffrydiau, 5s. Gay nog Township, by Mr E. P. Evans, Lower Glyn, and Mr W. Roberts, Peny- belan, £ 7 9s 6d. Lly", Township, by Mr D. Evans, Dolterfryn, aud Mr J. Andrews, Plasdockyn, i53 19s 6d. Llan Township, by Mr W. Andrew, Fronheulog, and Mr J. Humphreys, Peeybryn, X6 15< 9d, making a total of X20 9s 9d. A Parish Meeting was held in December, when the matter was readily supported, and Mr J. Andrews, who bad called the meeting, was appointed treasurer, and the Rev W. Morgan secretary. The contri- butions were as follows:- £ s. d. Mrs Hounsfield 5 0 0 Mr Edward Andrew 1 1 0 DONATIONS OF 10/6.—Rev W. Morgan (Reotory), Mr W. Andrew (Bronheulog), Mr R. Andrew (Celn), Mr J. Humphreys (Penybryn), Mr John Davies (Old Hall) 2 12 6 DONATIONS OF 10/—Mr Jones (Lawnt), Mr Thomas Evans, Mr David Foulkes (Tynypant), Mr R. P. Wilson (Ffinnant), Mr and Mrs Evans (Dollerfyn), Mr and Mrs Andrew (Plasdocyn) 3 0 0 DONATIONS or 5/—Mr Evan Evans (Moat), Miss Evans (Bee Hive), Mr W. R.. Davies (Smithy), Miss Evans (Dol- ryol), Mr D. O. Jones (New Mills), Mr William Lewis (Upper Mill), Mrs Bowen, Mr Davies (Caecoch), Mr Edward P. Evans, Mr J. Roberts (Uwchllan), Mr H. Bullock (Giifach) 2 15 0 DONATIONS OF 4/—Mr David Davies (New Mills) 0 4 0 DONATIONS or 3/—Mr William Jones 0 3 0 DONATIONS OF 2/6.—Mr R. O. Jones (Lower Mill), Mrs Evans (Cefntwlc), Mr Thomas Proctor (New Mills), Mr D. Howells (New Mills), Mrs Jane Thomas (New Mills), Mr D. Oliver (Dolgaer), Mr R. Watkin (Ffrydian), Mr J. Jones (Bronffynon), Mr E. Evans (Tybrith), Mr W. Roberts (Penbelan), Mrs Roberts Brynhadog), Mr D. Lloyd (Llwyncoppa) 1 10 0 DONATIONS OF 2/—Mrs Bowen (Cefn- bach), Mr Whitticase (Maesprydd), Mr Humphreys (Cennant), Mr D. Griffiths (New Mills), Miss E. C. Griffiths (New Mills), Mr A. Humphreys (Tynycelyn), Mr Watkin (Green Shop), Mr C. A. Williams (Glanrhiew), Mr Richd. Lloyd Miss Brown (New Mills), Miss Ridge' (Chapel House), Mr R. Ewart Hamer, Mr G. Pybus, Mr A. Davies, Mrs Evans (Lawnt), Mr L. Evans (Gwaelodrhos), Mr Davies (Llwynrhyddod), Mr J. Roberts (Lower House) 1 16 0 DONATIONS OF 1/6.—Mr T. Astley (Cwm- dail), Mr Evans (Tanyrallt). 0 3 0 DONATIONS OF l¡-Mr J. N. Jones (Wtrawen), Mr Bennett (Maespryd), Mr R. Jones (Gelligron), Mrs Thomas (Bronrhiw), Mrs Griffiths (Bronrhiw), Mr W. Bullock (Green), Mr J. Davies (Wern), Mr T. Evans (Postman), Mr R. Andrew (Manafon Village), Mr Albert Rowlands (Smithy), Mr David Jones (Penybryn), Mrs Jane Jones (Cwm), Mr William Jones (Llanercheinion), Mr John Jones (Cefnbach), Mr R. Breese (New Mills), Mrs Oliver (Bronhaul), Mrs Price (New Mill&), Mr R. N. Price (New Mills), Mr Joseph Williams, Mr P. Oliver (Bronheulog), Miss M. Davies (Bronheulog), Mr Fred Evans (Lawnt), Mr Bowen (Walkmill), Mr J. Foulkes (Walkmill), Mr Williams (Pendwyrhiw), Mrs Morgan (Coeducha), Mr Edward Humphreys, Mrs Davies (Glynganol), Mr John Kinsey, Miss M. J. Roberts (Lower House), Mr J. Evans (Dinnant), Mr J. Watkin (Uwchllan), Mr W. O. Colley (Uwchllan), Mrs Colley (Uwch- llan), Mr E. Humphreys (Bradbwll), Mr Lee (Tanyrallt), Mr Jehu (Llanfair), Mr Bennett (Cottage), Mr Davies (Coed), Mr P. Jones (Glog), Mr W. Thomas (Penllwyn), Mr Breese (Penybont) 2 3 0 DONATIONS OF 6d.—Mrs Mary Morgan (New Mills), Mr Thomas Jones (New Mills), Mr W. Habberly (Green), Mrs Habberly (Green) 0 2 0 DONATION OF 3d.—Mr D. Watkin (Bron- heulog) 0 0 3 Total £ 20 9 9

CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS COMPANY. Passenger Train Alterations- March, 1910. WITH THE FOLLOWING EXCEPTIONS V V there will be no Alterations in the running of this Company's Trains for March, 1910, and the Time Tables dated October, 1909, with the alterations announced for December, will remain in force Until Further Notice. Every Tuesday until Further Notice a Passenger Tram will run as underWelshpool, depart 7-35 a.m.; Forden, 7-45; Montgomery, 7-48; Abermule, 7-55; Newtown, arrive 8-5 a.m. For Train Service on Good Friday, see Special Announcements. General Manager's Office, Oswestry, February 15th, 1910.

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THE HEALTH OP THE COUNTY TOWN. MEDICAL OFFICER'S YEARLY REVIEW. "I went over this report before the meet- ing, and it seems very satisfactory as re- gards the health of Montgomery. One child died after it was born. and that runs up the infantile death rate in a small pop- ulation like this." So said the Mayor (Alderman Fairles-Humphrevs) last Thurs- day, when the Council had heard read the annual review of the Medical Officer of Health (Dr T. D. Kirk). "The birth rate," continued the Mayor, is not as much as it might be— "Very unfortunate!" exclaimed Alder- man C. P. Davies, evoking laughter thereby. The Mayor: Our death rate is certainly very satisfactory. Most of the people who died are very old people, and there has been no case of phthisis. I propose a vote of thanks to the Medical Officer for the re- port and for his services during the last twelve months. Alderman Davies seconded the proposal, which Dr Kirk acknowledged. The report read as follows I have the honour to lay before you my annual report for the year 1909. There were IS CHILDREN BORN IN THE BOROUGH during the year-four males and nine fe- males—the lowest number of birth regis- tered for the last ten years, with the ex- ception of 1904, when the figures were the same. The birth rate for the year was 12.6 per 1,0#0 ,against 23.2 for 1908. and a gen- eral birth rate for England and Wales of 25.6. Three children died before attaining the age of one year—one only survived its birth for a few hours. The other two were aged respectively three and five months. This brings the number down to ten, and gives an infantile mortality of 23.0 per 1,000 births registered, as against 83.3 for 1908, and a general rate for England and Wales of 10.9. There were only eleven deaths regis- tered in the borough during the year, the lowest number for eleven years, and giving a death rate of 10.6, against 18.3 for 1908. The death rate for England and Wales for the same period was 14.5 per 1,000 of the population, and lower than the rate in any other year on record. As before stated, three deaths occurred in early infancy, one at the age of eleven years, and the remain- ing seven were all over 70 years two were over 80, and four were nearer 80 than 70. There were no deaths from phthisis re- gistered in the borough during the year. Fifteen cases of scarletina were notified during the year all were of a mild type. The usual precautions were taken, and the rooms disinfected where the patients resided. The schools, which it was con- sidered advisable to close in December, 1908, owing to the outbreak of this disease, after being thoroughly disinfected, cleaned, and coloured, were re-opened on January 37th, 1909, and have remained open since. THE MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN has been carried out as directed by the Board of Education and the County Medi- cal Officer of Health, and I found all the arrangements satisfactory on each occasion. I have no doubt good results will follow the working of the Act. Accompanied by the Sanitary Inspector, I have made the usual visits to the lodging house, and found the house clean, comforta- ble, and well ventilated. There are two good slaughter houses in the town, well supplied with water. One of these is not always kept in so sanitary a state as I should like. The other is satisfactory in every way. the water supply was plentiful during the summer months. It has again been analysed quite recently bv the County Analyst, who describes it as a good and pure drinking water. I am glad to be able to report that a scheme is at present before the Council to build an additional reser- voir and the old quarry site, and when this is completed the town will have an ample supply of pure spring water, and the dan- gers attendant on a long dry summer will be removed. The sewers are in a good working con- dition, and I frequently visit the outlets. I am still of opinion that the outlet in Clos lynymere should be covered over for a greater distance from the footpath and ru have made the usual visits during the year to the workshops and work-placers, and found the conditions in every case satisfactory on the whole, Our workshops and work-places are small. There is no factory of any kind in the borough."

Marquis of Anglesey Fined. At Croydon, the Marquis of Anglesey was summoned for driving a motor-car at" over ten miles an hour, the legal limit, in a par- ticular thoroughfare. Two constables stated that the speed was over seventeen miles an hour. The solici- tors to the Marquis wrote admitting the offence, and expressing regret, and he was fined £5 and costs.

THE B ROUGH MEMBER SUPPORTS THE GOVERNMENT POL'ICY Put Financial x. ffairs in Order. A Plea for Welsh Home Rule Mr J. D. Rees delivered the following speech in the House of Commons on Wed- nesday in support of Mr Asquith's policy to give the Budget precedence:— The hon. member for South Salford (Mr Belloc), with characteristic modesty of speech, said he represented not only his own constituency, but the people of Eng- land, and all the members of this House who were tramelled with red tape and slavishly subservient to the crack of the party whip. I cannot undertake to speak for the people of England, or for all the members of this House, and J do not know who conferred that right upon the hon. member for South Salford. I know, how- ever that the hon. member does not speak for me. When he censured the Prime Min- ister for the course he announced in deal- ing with the business of the House, not only did he not speak for me on that point, but I profoundly disagree with every re- mark he made. He said that the Prime Minister was bound to deal, in the first in- stance, with other business than the Bud- get. In my opinion, the course the Prime Minister announced was the only possible one he could pursue, and no responsible Government could be regarded as a respon- sible Administration which proceeded upon any high and adventurous enterprise be- fore they put their own House in financial I order. The hon. member endeavoured to sweep in-to his net not only hon. members who disagree with him, but also those who profoundly disagree with everything he said. I regret the hon. member's remarks in which he said this country was being governed by a Hebrew plutocracy. That assertion is not only untrue, but it is very offensive to men who have distinguished themselves for their generosity towards their fellow citizens, and who ought to be exempt from that kind of accusation in this House. The hon. member spoke as if every rich man was an enemy of the community. A WITTY HIT. He must have imagined that he was in his study producing a sensational novel with the aid of a powerful imagination. By sitting in this House with the members of the Labour party I claim that I am ful- filling a useful function. Not only have I the advantage of sitting next to the head of that party, but the head of that party has the advantage of sitting next to me. I do not make this claim owing, to any con- ceit of myself, but because my immediate proximity to the leader of the Labour party proved to be a certain check upon the description the hon. member gave of con- suls and pro-consuls from the East. I think I have been a little check upon the exuberance of his imagination in this re- spect, because he only said that consuls and pro-consuls who returned from an orgie of autocracy in the East were not fitted to ¡ perform the functions of members of a democratic party. The hon. member des- cribed the retired consul and pro-consul j as a man with a bad liver and a bad heart, who used bad language, and did bad busi- ness in a bad climate, and, of course, he I pointed to Lord Milner. I take leave to say that the class whom the leader of the Labour party describes in this way is not only undeserving of that description, but deserving of the sympathy of their fellow- counrtrymen. Those who speak in this manner of the way the business of our foreign possessions is conducted little know the care that is taken by those administra- tors, and the way their lives are spent in endeavouring to ascertain the real feeling and wishes of the communities they are ap- pointed to govern. It would do hon. mem- bers who hold those views good to read some documents which have just been pub- lished, written by Warren Hastings, in which he deals with this question in the same way as that Radical philosopher, John Stuart Mill, did. He says that he "doubted whether a democracy was equal to the task of justly governing a distant dependency." When I read that I said the time has come, and here is the man who has proved it. I think it was Mirabeau who said that "the tyranny of an individual is nothing to the tyranny of a Single Chamber." Hardly had the hon. member got into his stride when he proposed that the Govern- ment should stop supplies in order to get their way, and he also said that the new members of this House should refrain from speaking. I should like to know what hon. members think of a proposal of that kind F Mr T. Wing: May I rise to a point of order. I think the hon. member is rather misrepresenting the hon. member the leader of the Labour party. The Deputy-Speaker (Mr Emmott): There is no point of order. SEDITION IN INDIA. I Mr Rees: I think the hon. gentleman and his friends can well look after them- selves, and if they want help will seek it in a more experienced quarter. My re- marks have been made in perfect good temper. I am enjoying the hospitality of my hon. friend, and I can only say I trust I have not abused it in any way. My hon. friend referred to this question of the conduct of consuls and pro-consuls, which he considers so bad, and that brings me to a point on which I wish to make some remarks. The leader of the Opposi- tion referred to the persons who were de- ported in India as being under sentences, and he criticised the policy of releasing them just now. My object in speaking, though I really do not know that I would release them, is to point out that these were not sentences at all. It was an ad- ministrative executive action of the Gov- ernment of India, and the old regulation under which the Government of India pro- ceeded contemplated, and, in fact, pre- scribed, that every six months these execu- tive orders of deportation should come un- der the reconsideration of the Govern- ment. It is perfectly clear therefore that the Government which passed this regulation I m 1818 did not consider that persons who were deported under it should be indefin- itely kept in confinement, but they in- tended that they should come up for* con- sideration every six months. I therefore say, though I do not suppose I have been conspicuous for sympathy with agitators- I sincerely hope I have not-I am none the less bound to say that I think, when the Viceroy and the Secretary for India agree, when the sentences come under re- vision, that they can safelv release the'se gentlemen, it would be very difficult for the House of Commons to criticise that action and say they should be further de- tained in custody. Reference was also made both in this House and in another place to the Press law that has lately been passed. I think that law was passed none I too soon. The Viceroy very wisely took into his confidence the ruling chiefs of India. They are natives of India governing their States according to native ideas, and with one accord they replied that this law should be stiffened up and that agitation should not be carried on in newspapers and mischief spread right and left, as it has been spread, with the deplorable result that many meritorious public servants have been assassinated and great harm done to our rule in India. I confess that the advice given by the Maharajah of Mysore that the Executive Government should have complete control, and that no appeal need necessarily lie to the courts of justice, was probably good advice. I do not think a very exagger- ated regard need be paid to the feelings of certain hon. members who think that any- body should be allowed to write anything anywhere about any subject in any way without regard to results, because the small band who held this view in the last Parlia- ment ,and pressed it unceasingly, have, to my satisfaction, been scattered right and left and few of them remain here. The j electors of this country have had the wis- dom to see that principles which may be necessary and desirable in a parish in this country are not necessarily applicable to an empire in the East. My hon. friend also wanted to compel the self-governing Colonies in South Africa to receive into their States natives of India upon terms other than those upon which they are willing to receive them. As long as the Transvaal was governed from Downing Street there was no member of this House who pressed harder upon the Govern- ment of the day the necessity for dealing tenderly with the civilised inhabitants of our Empire and treating them in all respects as they desire to be treated than I but as soon as the Transvaal became a self-govern- ing Colony I ceased to do so, because I hold that a self-governing Colony must be self-governed. That is the first condition of its existence. It is absurd and impossible for this House to endeavour to prescribe to self-governing Colonies the terms upon which they ahall receive immigrants of a different colour, of a different race, and of a different civilisation into their midst. They must have a free hand on that subject, and, though I deeply deplore their decision, I do maintain that they must be allowed to have their own way in this matter. They have as much right to have their own way as Aus- tralia has. Nobody is attempting to coerce Australia, and, though I deplore the deci- sion of the Government of the Transvaal, I do say that for this House to take it up is unfortunate and will lead to more of those difficulties which are coming more and more into view as democracy is more and more taking a first hand in the government of our distant oriental possesions. I propose to avoid referring to subjects which have been dealt with at length by other speakers, but I must say I do differ profoundly from the speech made by my hon. friend behind me, and in some respects from the speech made by the hon. gentleman who last ad- dressed the House from that bench above the gangway. For my part I entirely accept the interpretation put by the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary upon the words used at the Albert Hall, but, whatever they were and whatever they mean, the Prime Minister and his colleagues can only now do the best they can under the existing circumstances and with the followers they have. I do not know that I am one of those who slavishly submit to the Govern- ment Whips, but I do deprecate the manner in which the Government have been urged to-night to use the Budget as a mere lever to force the hands of the House of Lords. The hon. member for Cork City (Mr W. O'Brien) in his very eloquent speech ap- pealed to the House to treat Ireland from pealed to the House to treat Ireland from an Imperial point of view. Let it be so but it is not treating it from an Imperial point of view to treat it as the hon. and learned member for Waterford (Mr John Redmond) did when he said last night that he wanted to prolong the financial crisis as a weapon against another branch of the Legislature, and that he would decline to vote for the Budget, not because he did not like it, but because he thought voting against the Budget would be an assistance to the other House. Those are not princi- ples I should describe as Imperial. I be- lieve the only course for this branch of the Legislature to pursue is first of all to put its financial affairs in order, and then to pro- ceed with such matters as the Government may be considered to have received a man- date to deal with. I also wish to express profound satisfaction that sufficient pro- vision is to be made for our naval require- ments. THE NAVY. An hon. member suggested that he was as anxious as anybody to keep up the Navy, but the question was what was suffi- cient naval strength for the defence of this country. As to that, I would submit that neither I nor the hon. member know what that strength should be. It is a question for the naval advisers of the Government, and no provision can be satisfactory which is not accepted as such by them. It is in the interests of our peace and commerce I. that I rejoice that large provision is to be made for the Navy. I suppose that the greatest peacemaker in the world other than our own Sovereign is President Roosevelt, who stopped the most sanguinary war in history, and he was so convinced that battle- ships. are the makers of peace that when they built a great one in the United States

he christened it the" Pacificator." I say the predominance of our Navy ha? been the I chief factor in the preservation of European peace, and I pray that it may be kept up to its proper pitch, and not on any account be allowed to fall below the relative stan- dard which it has happily maintained up to the present day. A great deal has been said as to Home Rule. I am not going to walk into that hornet's nest, but I want to sutmit that there is another form of Home Rfile to that which usually attaches to one part of the United Kingdom which is equally worthy for another part-I mean Wales. WELSH HOME .RULE. What we want in Wales is more local government—more local self-government and more independence of departments. In point of fact, we think in regard to our own local and national affairs the Welsh are as much deserving of separate and individual treatment. I say it with all respect to my Irish friends-as the Irish themselves.— (An hon. member: "More so.")—Yes, more so, if you like. Indeed, I would say that one respect they are more. deserving, because they are far less obtrusive and in- sistent on their rights. Whether a new epoch is approaching, in which the Welsh will take matters into their own hands in that exceedingly efficient and concerted manner adopted by the Irish, I do not know, but I am sure of this, that the feel- ing in my own constituency is that Home Rule is a good thing—that kind of Home Rule which, if granted to any other part of the United Kingdom, must be held to be suitable for Wales, and should also be granted to Wales. I do not know whether that will be regarded as the Confession of a Home Ruler. At any rate, to that ex- tent I am prepared to accept the title of a Home Ruler. I abstain from going into matters dealt with by other speakers, but I sincerely hope that the course of business which the Prime Minister announced his intention of pursuing will be pursued, and that the Government will not be deterred from adopting their method of procedure by individual speeches, however full- blooded, and however much those who make them may be convinced, as appar- ently they are, that in each individual case they represent not only their own con- stituencies. but the people of England, Ire- land, Scotland, and Wales.