BRITISH POLITICS.
KErOBM OS’ THE LORDS,
By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright
LONDON, March 15
Sir Edward Grey, in a speech at a Liberal banquet in the City, said that if the reform of the House of Lords was left to the other side the Liberals would be courting disaster, death and damnation. The solution would be ,an elective Chamber, elected not necessarily simultaneously with the House of Commons. The Government would reimpose theJßudget taxes by these they would stand or fall.
There is much comment in the newspapers on Lord Rosebery’s statement that he deprecated the election of Peers by popular vote, as this would give only a feeble understudy of the House of Commons, and would multiply the horors of the general election. The Lords would derive dignity by association with corporations and county councils formed into elective bodies upon the French basis. Representation provided in this way should form no considerable proportion of the Upper House.
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Southland Times, Issue 14370, 17 March 1910, Page 5
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