CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.
MR. ASQUITH.
AN IMPROVED SECOND CHAMBER.
BT TELEGRAPH-MESS ASSOCIATION-CorTEIQHT,
London, December 12,
Mr. Asquith, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, addressing the Eighty Club, favoured quinquennial Parliaments, or ' possibly' shorter ones. (Quinquennial Parliaments are part of the constitutional reform scheme lately formulated by tho Primo Minister!) He said that as democratic ideas advanced, a well-constituted, wisely-led Second Chamber might be a real advantago in the matter of revising work improvidently and, precipitately performed.
« Tho Government intended sooner or laten taking tho opinion of Parliament and ; the nation upon tho schemo of reform which tho Prime Minister, Sir Henry, Campbell-Ban-norman, had adumbrated.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 69, 14 December 1907, Page 5
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