BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Evening Star, Issue 14574, 24 May 1911, Page 6

BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

THE VETO BILL FIRST. THEN REFORM OF THE LORDS. LONDON, May 23. Laid Haldane, in reiterating his statement that the Veto must first be settled, and hoping for the ultimate co-operation of the two parties on the question of the reform of the House of Lords, intimated that the Government were not dividing against the Bill. Lord Lansdownc, in winding up the debate, said lie had been criticised for not including representative:-; of the Dominions, but ho believed tliat it was impossible to adopt .such a .suggestion without a revolution going far beyond the limits of the Bill, lie defended the fairness of the Bill, hut in nowise wished it to be regarded as unamendable. The Bill was then read a second time.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES. LONDON, May 25'. 'The Times' describes as momentous and historical the fact that the House of Lords, notwithstanding several hostile speeches by the Opposition Peers, declared without a division that its ancient Constitution stands in need of a thorough change and revision in order to adapt the Second Chamber to modern needs.