A CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 30 December 1925, Page 5

A CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE.

THE SWAMPED CHAMBER. LONDON NEWSPAPER COMMENT. London, Dec. 29. The “Daily Telegraph,” in an editorial, says: “An issue of great importance has been raised in New South Wales, in which all parts of the Empire must feel concern. It is really -whether a Government with a very small, and possibly fleeting, majority may neutralise the second Chamber and make it impossible for it to carry out the function of revision for which it was created. Any Cabinet contemplating such a step ought to make it clear beyond all dispute by reference to the constituencies that it seeks a definite mandate for its action, otherwise the process of government will soon be thrown into chaos. There is no such evidence in this case, and we may be pardoned for hoping the Labour Government will not, after all, go to extremes. Constitutions are delicate things and should be modified gradually, if at all. It is in the interest of all parties to maintain the existing political institutions and to make them work smoothly. It concerns tho whole Empire that in every part of the Empire tho spirit, rather than the letter of the constitution should be observed.”—(A. and N.Z.)