16 APRIL 1910, Page 2

Speaking on Tuesday night, Mr. Balfour declared that the second

Resolution, whether or not it was followed by a reform of the Upper House, would lead to an increase in the proba- bilities of disagreement between the two Chambers. "You will multiply what you are pleased to call deadlocks." Mr. Winston Churchill replied that the differences of opinion among the Government's supporters would be of no assistance to the Opposition in the dispute on the House of Lords. " We are all united in repudiating their right to touch the Budget ; in making such interference impossible in the future; in securing the supremacy of the House of Commons in the State; in seeming its predominance in legislation; -upon the

great series of Veto Resolutions ; and in condemning the existing character of the House of Lords."