HOUSE OF LORDS.
PRIME MINISTER MEMORIALISED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright LONDON, 10th December. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister, has been memorialised by Lord Weardale and other officers "£ tho Political Committee of the New Reform Club on the subject of the House of Lords. The memorialists ask the Prime Minister to introduce a Bill which will make it the first work of the next session of Parliament to give effect to tho expressed determination of the House of Commons that the will of the people shall prevail. tlft If the measure is rejected by the House of Lords, the Prime Minister is advised to appeal directly to the country. The New Reform Club, of which the Marquis of Ripon is president, was established in 1900. It has a membership of 500. Lord Weardal'cj is president of the New Reform Union, founded in 1864 by members of the committee of the Anti-Corn-Law League, who took up the question of Parliamentary Reform after the defeat of Protection.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 139, 11 December 1908, Page 7
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