AMENDMENT MOVED BY MR: A. CHAMBERLAIN.
REFORMATION OF THE LORDS. LONDON, 27th February. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer in theBalfour Cabinet, in to-day's Veto debate in the House of Commons moved an amendment ia favour of reforming the ,House of Lord 3 while maintaining its independence, and also condemning the? Parliament Bill as conferring on a Single Chamber all effective legislative author,ity, without providing any safeguard against the inißoduction of grave changes, without the consent and contrary to the -wall of the people. Mr. Chamberlain denounced the stereotyping of an unwritten Constitution. If the spirit of conference prej vailed, there was yet, he t«id, room for. j a settlement. j Mr. Haldsne, Secretary of State for War," replied that without the Veto Bill | the Government would be unable to i negotiate with the other side on equal j i terms. i
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 49, 28 February 1911, Page 7
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144AMENDMENT MOVED BY MR: A. CHAMBERLAIN. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 49, 28 February 1911, Page 7
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