The rest of this concluding paragraph office unless he could secure the eafesure and introduce Bill in a hurry it of the speech was singularly ambiguous, guardo, which experience showed to be Il certainly prove crude and and, it is suggested, eve ungrammatinecessary for the legislative utility and digestible. It is quite possible that the cal. "These measures," it went on to. honour of the party of progress, to mean Goverment will break down even before say, "in the opinion of my advisers that he would insist on the application this letter reaches its destination; bat should provide that this House should the Royal prerogative to this end. the greater probability is that, as' The be 50 constituted and empowered as to Mr, Asquith stated emphatically that he Times" lobbyist remarks this morning, exercise impartially, in regard to never meant to imply this and that the the crisis will " simmer for sxme weeks, proposed legislation, the fanctions safeguards to which he referred were if not until after Easter, while financial of initiation, revision, and, subj legislative eafegards. Mr. Redmond business la proc oded with.' to proper safeguards, of admits the force of Mr. Asquith's con-It has been pointed out in many qua tection that no constitutional statesters that grammatically " This House man could demand from the Sover la The vast audience which gathered in must be taken to refer to the House of a pledge to exercise his prerogat Covent Garden Theatre on Saturday Commons—the only House directly re-regard to measures which hace not yet night—an audience which included the ferred to in the paragraph, while the con-been approved by er even submitted to King and Queen and hundreds of lesser text reveals that it is the House of Lords the House of Commons; but he insists notabilities—were doubtless of many difwich in meant. Bat the explana that the veto measure should be brought ferent opinions as to the merits of Dr. given by Lord Crome—that the Kiog in first, and that theo Mr. Asquith Strause's much discased opera; bat was referring to the House in which he should redeem his pledge and refuse to there was probably not one who did not was speaking—is sufficiently plausible continue in office auloss the Royal pre-feel that be was amply repaid for his Moreover, the speech from the Throne, rogative were exercised. money and his trouble. And except il laments which have under-for the privileged ones the trouble was ion at the suggestion of many
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