The Prime Minister addressed the Coalition Liberal conference last Saturday.
He ridiculed Mr. Asquith's claim to take credit for the Irish " Treaty." That settlement, he said, had enhanced Great Britain's prestige, and the Unionists in the Coalition were entitled to gmtitudefor their help in bringing about the " Treaty." As for a General Election, he had not started the idea and had not made up his mind about it. It was untrue to suggest that the Coalition Liberals proposed a dissolution in order to evade the question of reforming the House of Lords. They were pledged, like other Liberals, to deal with the problem. Mr. Asquith had said, ten years ago, that it was a subject whichbrookednodelay. The Government had learned, in the discussion of the rumours of a dissolution, that the Opposition did not want to meet the electors just yet.
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