[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I do not know
what your authority may be for roundly
asserting that " Mr. Asquith's constitutional doctrine is unquestionably sound," from which assumption you deduce the idleness of " pretending, as the Daily Herald does, that Mr. Asquith was merely making a lawyer's point on the right of dissolution."
But I do know that the Daily Herald relied, when it contended on the morrow of Mr. Asquith's speech that his
doctrine was unsound, upon the soundest constitutional authority. Sir William Anon has laid it down quite clearly that " a dissolution is invariably granted on the request of a Minister." So far as precedents go, there are none, I believe,
to support Mr. Asquith's and the Spectator's attitude. If you can produce one, Sir, pray do. I have tabled my card. Now let us see if yours can beat it.—I am, Sir, &e., HAMILTON FYPE.
" Daily Herald," Carmelite Street, B.C. 4.
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