A CAPABLE HOUSE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19196, 30 December 1927, Page 7

A CAPABLE HOUSE.

PARLIAMENTARY YEAR REVIEWED. (by cable—smss association— coraiQHT.) (AUSTBALIAK AND H.Z. CABLS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, December 28. "The Times," in a retrospect of the Parliamentary session since the complete defeat of the general strike, says: "A staggering blow was dealt to the sovereignty of Parliament. All membars are adjusting themselves to the fact that England expects them to be national representatives, and not the delegaces of interests; also to the fact that employers and employed have been induced to realise that Parliament can do little to promote peace and prosperity without their co-opera-tion. This meant that remarkably little time was wasted in asking Parliament to do what industry alone could do iteelf. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Baldwin, at some personal cost, established a far healthier political atmosphere in the House of Commons. Sir Austen Chamberlain and Sir W. Joynson-Hicks are the two Ministers who have most increased their influence. The House as a whole impresses one for its competence rather than for its brilliance. The process of recovering its balance has at least advanced sufficiently for the suspension of all talk of the decline of Parliament."