THE EDUCATION BILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13347, 29 November 1906, Page 5

THE EDUCATION BILL.

A SERIOUS CRISIS. HOUSE OP LORDS AMENDMENTS, BILL NOT TO BE ACCEPTED. PROBABLE ANTI-LORDS CAMPAIGN. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright* (Received November 28, 10.28 p.m.) Londox/ November 28. Mr. Arthur Acland, who presided at an emergency meeting of the General Committee of the National Liberal Federation in Caxton Hall, Westminster, yesterday, urged the House of Commons not to waste a day in redebating any Bill mangled in the House of Lords, but to return the Bills to ,the Lords, one by one without debate. The remedy mustbe great, drastic, effective, and final. Sir H. Campbell-Baunerrnan wrote that the Education Bill as amended by the House of Lords was of no use to them or the country. It was apparent that the House of Lords had presumed to know the country's mind better than the country or the House of Commons did. The Prime Minister's letter continued : "On one thing you may rest assuredwe can have no tampering with the main principles of the Bill. If within those limits and without injury to education an arrangement is possible, well and good ; if not, it is for us to see in" connection with this and other questions whether a way is to be found whereby the wishes of the country can be made to prevail, and the battle will continue until the House of Lords is greatly modified or annihilated."

A resolution was passed amidst a scene of enthusiasm urging the rejection of the amendments and the abolition during the present Parliament of the veto of the House of Lords. "EPISCOPAL OLIGARCHY" IN HOUSE OF LORDS. ' London, November 27. . The Rev. Dr. Clifford, in a letter to the press, violently assails what he describes as the '"'episcopal oligarchy " in the House of Lords,, and declares that the amendments made by that House in the Education Bill must be rejected, or the Nonconformists would resort to passive resistance to an extent that would embarrass the Government. Dr. Clifford further urges the creation of 300 Radical peers or the formation of a- Second Chamber on colonial lines. . " «** r ,