UNIVERSITY FRANCHISE
MOVE FOR ABOLITION COMMONS REJECTS IDEA LONDON, Feb. 26 By 227 votes to 130, the House of Commons to-dav rejected a prix-ate member's motion in favour of the abolition of university franchise. Interest in the debate was derived from Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald's recent return for a Scottish Universities seat. Labour members described such representation as "an anomaly in a democratic State." British universities at present return 12 members, with a total electorate of 164,692. Lord Hugh Cecil stated that the existing Parliamentary system safeguarded liberty and urged that the time was inopportune to tamper with it. Other Conservatives said the universities returned men who were valuable to the House and to the country who were unlikely to be returned in the ordinary way. Mr. Mac Donald was not present.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22355, 28 February 1936, Page 12
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