The course of events would now seem to be reasonably
clear. The Budget of 1909-10 will go through the House, and the taxes which have not yet been collected under it will be collected as arrears. The next step will be the presentation of the Resolutions in the House of Lords. It has been suggested that in order to avoid a Dissolution, which the supporters of the Government, and indeed the whole of the House of Commons, dislike, the Government, whose avowed policy is to give the power of delay to the House of Lords, though to leave them with no other powers, will connive at the Peers spinning out the discussion of the Resolutions till August. That is a possible course, but we think it more likely that the decision will be taken at once, and that the Lords will abso- lutely refuse to pass the Resolutions until the country has by means of a General Election declared unmistakably its view as to the alteration of the Constitution.
