REFERENDUM BILL.
DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS. By Tclcsraph-Pross Association-Coryrleht. London, March 3. In tho House of Lords, Lord Balfour of Burleigh's Referendum Bill was introduced and read a first time. Tho Earl of Crewe, Leader for the Government in tho Upper House, incidentally described one of the clauses as similar to tho Queensland (1807) measure—the only Act in the world applying the referendum to a deadlock between two Houses of Parliament. Lords Selborne and Tennyson supported the Bill. Lord Loreburn (Lord Chancellor) contended that it would be unworkable in a large, busy population, which would prefer trusting to its competent chosen representatives.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1068, 6 March 1911, Page 5
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103REFERENDUM BILL. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1068, 6 March 1911, Page 5
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