BRITISH POLITICS.
Press Assn — By telegraph — Copyright. LONDON, yesterday. In the House of Commons Mr Harcourt's Bill to constitute London a siugle Parliamentary borough and abolish plural voting Avas road a second time by 140 to 46. Sir H. Kember, Hon. A. Lyttelton aiid other members combated the Bill, -because it Avas not accompanied by a schome providing for a redistribution of scats, and because it sought to I establish the principle of one man one A'ote exclusively for London, . which represented one-eighth of the doctorates of the AA-liole country. Mr Harcourt replied that the Bill remoA r ed amomalies and Londoners' grievances, which were remediable without their having to aAvait the larger measure of reform Government hoped to pass before dissolution.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 286, 7 June 1909, Page 2
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122BRITISH POLITICS. Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 286, 7 June 1909, Page 2
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