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Evening Star, Issue 11296, 18 July 1900, Page 4

T.hs Chambers of Commerce Bill has been dutifully killed by the Legis--1t.1.P. lative Council, and we should be sorry to see resurgam ” written on .its unhenored grave. The division was a near thing—--17 to 16—but a miss is as good as a mile, and that majority of one did ali that was required. We are glad to see the names of the Hon. D. Pinkerton and the Hon. H Qourley among the “Noes,” and it is a pity that the Hon. A. Leo Smith’s name should be on the other side, considering tho conclusive fashion in which he criticised the Bill. The Minister of Education affects to believe that “ when common sense resumes its sway” the soundness of the proposals contained in the Bill will be recognised—which is surely the no plus ultra of paradoxical perversity. It is pleasant to find that there is still a fair amount of independence left in the Council, and that when Ministers far overstep the bounds of reason and justice in their legislative proposals th’'y still have to reckon with the practical sense and sound caution of the “ Lords.”