A CORRUPT HOUSE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1095, 6 April 1911, Page 5

A CORRUPT HOUSE

- LORD HUGH CECIL'S CHARGE SPIRITED REPLY BY LEADER OF OPPOSITION. PARLIAMENT .BILL DEBATE. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Ecc. April 6. 0.50 a.m.) London, April 5, The debate in tho House of Commons in the Committee stage of the Parliament Bill was uneventful to-day, tho Liberals being practically silent. An amendment by Colonel GriffithBoscawen, Unionist member for Dudley,, that the third reading of money Bills' should be taken by ballot, was rejected by 363 votes to 84. Lord Hugh Cecil, Unionist member for Oxford University, in speaking to tho amendment, incidentally attacked tho ■ party system, and characterised tho House, of Commons as a corrupt Assembly. The intimidation by caucus was such that it. required the rcintroduction of tho ballot., Mr. Balfour made a spirited reply to Lord' Hugh Cecil, which the Liberals' loudly cheered. He said he did not bo- 1 lievo the House of Commons had undergone deterioration within living memory. The evils of the party system would b« surpassed by other evils which would arise' if it were abolished,

SETTLEMENT .BY CONSENT. LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH'S ADVICE. (Rec. April C, 1.12 a.m.) London, April 5. . Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, in a speech at Edinburgh, declared that tho House of Lords was an insufficiently rcprcscnta-' five body, but if the Government pressod'. its numerical advantage it would not get; a durable settlement. A settlement by' consent was wanted, not the defeat of party. .