HEREDITARY TITLES
BILL TO ABOLISH THEM. (UNITBD PRESS .ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIQHT.) (AUSTRALIAN . NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received 10th May, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 9th May. _ The House of Commons read a first time a Bill to terminate hereditary titles, introduced under the ten minutes rule by Mr. A. A. W. H. Ponsonby (Lab.). The Bill allows the holder to renounce a title and no heir or heiress born after the Act is passed is to be allowed to succeed to a peerage. Mr. Ponsonby claimed that the Bill erred on the side of moderation. The hereditary principle was a survival of mediaevalism. Dignity, merit, and distinction was rapidly disappearing from the peerage, and party payments, beer, and whisky were taking their place. Hereditary titles ministered to vanity, encouraged corruption, and led to snobbishness and flunkeyism. He added that the Labour. Party, when it came into power, would not confer hereditary honours. Mr. Speaker inadvertently forgot to put the question to the "Noes," so the motion for the first reading was registered as carried, nem con.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 7
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172HEREDITARY TITLES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 7
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