On Monday in the Commons Mr. Asquith moved that the
House adjourn till Wednesday, September 9th. When on August 10th he had moved the adjournment of the House to the 25th he had said that the postponement of business must be without prejudice to the position of any party, and had added that when the House met on August 25th he hoped to be in a position to wind up the business of the Session with proposals that would command general acquiescence. In now moving a further adjournment till September 9th he wished to reiterate those words. He still hoped that by means of negotiation and arrangement it might be possible in the interval to arrive at a settlement of the Irish question. In regard to the Welsh Bill he would have a proposal to make that he trusted would meet with general consent. Mr. Bonar Law said that, since all parties were agreed that domestic con- troversy was most undesirable, it would speak badly for them if they could not devise a method by which the "raising again of controversial matters" would be avoided. Indeed, if con- troversy were renewed they would all be disgraced, and the country would not readily forgive them.
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