BRITISH POLITICS.
LATEST CABLES
THE GOVERNMENT’S: PROGRAMME.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, March, 22. The Times states that the Government proposes a month’s Parliamentary holiday from May 25th. The Parliament Bill is to be sent to the House of Lords early in May, and serious debates on the Bill will take place after the holiday. SOFT SOAP FROM WM. O’BRIEN. Mr. Win. O’Brien, M.P., (Leader of the Independent Nationalists,) in a letter to the “Times” says he is deeply gratified by the spirit of conciliation in Mr. Redmond’s recent speeches, and particularly with his declaration that the Irish nation must exclude no one, whatsover their race, creed or class. He adds that he begs Mr. Redmond to restore complete harmony among the Nationalists by circulating conciliatory speeches among the United Irish League. THE UNIONISTS AND LORDS’ REFORM. Lord Selborne, speaking at Glasgow, said that the Unionists earnestly desired to reform the House of Lords, but there were right and left wings in the Party. He urged the right wing to remember that inequality in the representation of the party was a serious evil, engendering a sense of injustice. Moreover, without the reconstruction of the House of Lords, it would he impossible to place the Crown outside party polities. The Opposition, he said, intended to propose in conjunction with two more methods, R the following methods of constituting the House of Lords:—Election by County Councils, qualification by office, selection by hereditary peers, and nomination by the Prime Minister. The Unionists would propose that the House of Lords should definitely renounce any concern in finance, and that strict provision should be made against “ tacking ” by the House of Commons, They were ready to refer their proposals for decision to a committee composed of an equal number of members of both Houses, the Speaker presiding. Lord Selborne gives a complete outline of the Unionist House of Lords’ reform proposals at Edinburgh to-day.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19110323.2.32.6
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1911, Page 6
Word Count
318BRITISH POLITICS. Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1911, Page 6
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.