REFORMED HOUSE OF LORDS
CONSERVATIVE SUGGESTIONS.
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, November 11. The possibility of women sitting in the House of Lords, -was envisaged by the Committee of Conservative Peers and members of the Commons, under the Chairmanship of Lord Salisbury, which investigated the reform of the Lords. They recommend that it would be hazardous and completely out of tradition of the hereditary principle, and dangerous to leave the monarchy as the only hereditary element in the constitution.
.. The Committee proposes a House of about 320, of ■whom 150 would be hereditary Peers elected by the remainder, and 150 from outside .elected by County and Borough Councils, grouped into electoral areas. Sex would be no disqualification among those thus elected. All members should be elected for twelve years, a third retiring every four years. The Royal Peers and Lords of appeal and two Archbishops should continue to be members, also three Bishops to be elected by their brethren, while adequate representation is provided for the Labour Party by bringing the incomes to £6oo’ if short of that amount.
Peers not elected to the Lords should he eligible for the Commons.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 November 1932, Page 7
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