London, Oct. 3.
The House of Lords to-day passed the first vending of the Irish Bill and adjourned until October 7.
The House of Commons has a Journed until October 8—Reuter, Conservatives the responsibility for turning out the Government on an 'A General Election in View: issue which the Liberals regard with greater disfavour than the Premier's Demand for Russian Treaty.
Fair Play Inquiries Inquiries at the labour at the labor headquarters to-day show that,/,, Me.) Ramsay, MacDonald, inter while preparations are very active viewed to-day by Mr. H. Wiekha Steed of the "Review of Reviews, owing to the assumption of the imreferring to the Liberal amendment minence of an election, opinion is! proposing the appointment of a divided with regard to the choice of an issue, select committee to investigate ani report on the circumstances 1 Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is crediting to the withdrawal of the pro-with a desire to dissolve on the ceedings in connexion "Workers? Weekly" issue, consider-Campbell, of the "Worker ing the Liberal demand for an in-dwelt on the unfairness quiry into the circumstances of the. king the Government to submit dropping of the sedition charge ax their case in advance to n select an intolerable implication against committee on which their politieul the Attorney-General, but a small opponents hold the major group of Mr. MacDonald's support "The responsibility for complicat~ ters oppose an election in that conor preventing the work we are ed nexion, expressing the opinion that trying to do in the national inter-the Attorney-General should resign.! est," the Premier said, "should be These represent the section most fairly and publicly assessed in the xious to fight on the Russian!
House of Commons itself. Though reaty. the Government have no majority Mr. "J. R. Clyes, the Deputy in the lobby they are entitled to Leader of the House, interviewed demand fair play, We are not a by Reuter, said that' Labour had gang of footpads/ never shirked a challenge of with Mr. MacDonald continued that the Liberats or the Conservatives personally he would rejoice to bs and was ready to meet the challenge relieved of the strain and worry of of both, "Political leaders who have office, but said that from national been compelled to swallow their and international points of view ne brave words of abuse of Ireland and did not rejoice in the prospect of Germany," Mr, Clynes declared,! contusion and frustrated achieve-"will later have to face the same ment which an attempt to eject the ordeal as regards Russia."—Reuter. Labour Government may entail s*We have never been It is significant that Sir Patrick informed of the charges nse Hastings, the Attorney-General, Campbell or of the pro: who ix not a member of the Cabi ation, oF of its being dropped. Indirectly, net, attended the Cabinet meeting, that is from later messages ye this afternoon, which considered the Jative to Conservative and Liberal Government's course in the vital de-displeasure, we learn that Camp-Jhate on Wednesday on the with-wrote an article inciting drawal of the "Workers' Weekly"
troops to mutiny. The Convervas Reuter understands that the de-vex raicedl the question last week of why the prosecution had been!
Uberations have not changed the dropped," and in view of the! position created by the Liberal Attorney-General, Sir Patrick! rmenidment proposing the appoint Hastings, ame explanation, Mr. ment of a select committee, namely, that the Government will insist on Asquith" announced—that the 44 jon by a vote of the House Liberals would support the vote of censure to be moved by the Conservatives. Subsequently Sir John Simon, while strongly disapproving of the dropping of the! prosecution against. Canipbell—an titude the more worth noticing in view of Sir John Simons" poll! tical character generally ultra-Radical and shat would once have been called Little Englander "Save notice of an amendment, io propote the appointment fleet committee 0 the whole matter, Prime interview publiched_ in "Reynold's Tlustrated News," Mr.t Ramsay MacDonald stated that he! regi tted that national interests were being sacrificed to party tactics, and that the business of the nation' was being brought to a standstill while
conspired to turn out the Govern-the Conservatives and the Liberals ment on a side issue. "My select committee," said the Premier, "tol which I would appeal, is not 10/ members of the House of Commons, but the 20 million electors. While I do not seek a general election, I afraid of it. By creating a condition of things which no Government can accept, their action takes from the Government the authority it requires to conduct the of Commions and not by an inquiry, whether by a select committee oF by a judicial inquiry, that the Gov-. cormment will consequently be defeated and that dissolution of Parnent will follow.
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