HOW TO DEAL WITH BILLS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 7

HOW TO DEAL WITH BILLS.

LORDS SHOULD BE IGNORED. (Received January 20, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 19th January. Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in an election speech, declared that it must be made perfectly clear that, if the House of Lords rejected a Bill sent up a second time, it must be sent straight through to the Throne. _____ AN OBJECT-LESSON OF LIBERAL LEGISLATION. • OLD-AGE PENSIONERS ON THE PLATFORM. (Received January 20, 8.45 a.n..) LONDON, 19th January. Prior to Mr. Lloyd-George's meeting at Newtown, in Montgomeryshire, 1388 old-age pensioners mounted the platform and expressed gratitude for the benefits conferred by the Liberal Government's legislation. COLONEL SEELY'S DEFEAI. The defeat of Colonel Seely for the Abercroiuby division of Liverpool is the first blow suffered by official candidates dvii» tent election, Colonel

Seely studied law, and was called to tho Bar of the Inner Temple in 1897. Later he served with tho Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, and for his services was mentioned in despatches, received the Queen's medal with five clasps, and was appointed a member of the Distinguished Service Order. Ho returned Home, and was elected member for the Isle of Wight in 1906 as a supporter of the Conservative Government, but severed himself from tho party over the question of Chinese labour in South Africa, and was rewarded by the Liberal Government with the Under-Secretary-ship for the Colonies, an important office when the Principal Secretary sits in the Upper House. As a debater* and administrator Colonel Seely has been distinctly successful, and it will probably not be long before he finds his way back to St. Stephen's. BELFAST EAST SEAT. Mr. T. M. Milligan writes to point out that in the election results published on Monday Mr. G. W./ Wolff, who was returned unopposed for Belfast East, was wrongly described as a Nationalist. He is, of course a Unionist, Belfast being the stronghold of Consti-" tutionalism in Ireland. All the Belfast seats, with the exception of the West Division, were held by Unionists in the last Parliament, and Belfast West was won by a Nationalist (Mr. J. Devlin) by only sixteen votes. A Liberal candidate being also in the field was responsible for this result. „ Mr. G. W. Wolff, the elect of Belfast East, is a member of the great shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff. He has held the seat continuously since 1892, his claim at the last election, as on this occasion, being unchallenged.