HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13052, 11 March 1911, Page 5

HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM.

THE REVENUE BILL

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London, March 9

Tn the House of Commons Mr J. Swift MacN'eill, Liberal member for Cambcrwell, pointed out that Lord Lansdowne's Lords roform proposals would be unable to pass unless the Crown waived its prerogative prior to their discussion, since the abolition of the peers' ri.^bt to seats in the House of Lords would curtail the Royal prerogative.

Mr Asquith made a guarded reply. Mr Asquith, replying to Mr W. Field, member for St Patrick's, Dublin, said that in view of the number of subjects on the agenda paper, and the limited time available, he was unable to recommend the Imperial Conference to discuss co-operative legislation for the prohibition of gambling in options and futures.

In the House of Commons, Mr Haldano, Secretary for War, -replying to Mr Francis Bennett Goldney, Unionist member for Canterbury, declined to issue instructions tliat soldiers in future must be fed with British meat a.nd nob frozen foreign meat. He added that only complete quarters of frozen meat from America were accepted under contract conditions.

The education expenditure for the year is estimated at £19,141,000, an increase of £468,000 on lasb year's figures. There are 40 pages of amendments to the Revenue Bill.