BRITISH POLITICS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. .London, November 14.
Mr A. Birrell, President of the Board of Education, speaking at Bristol, said the House of Lords Education Bill was the offspring of a mixed marriage of the Church j and. State , with the inherited weaknesses. of both parents without the strength of either. The ' Government had no u^e for suoh a measure which from the House of Commons standpoint (Liberal, or' Tbry) : was seen to.belah impossibility. : Everybody . ,. declared that the Act of 1902 was far. preferable.' He hoped that the House of s Lords would early;' recognise that they /-had gone too far. "I hope," said Mr Birrell, "that they will accept your Bill, which is according to tJie .pledges ,we have given, and intended tb keep. Otherwise the constitution must be ialtered. It was inadmissible that measures backed by great electoral; majorities should be mutilated and destroyed by an unrepresentative assembly."
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Bush Advocate, Volume XVIII, Issue 569, 15 November 1906, Page 5
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