HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13109, 18 May 1911, Page 2

HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM.

LORD LANSDOWNE'S BILL

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London, May 16. In the House of Lords, in the de» bate on his Reform Bill, Lord Lansdowne said that though there were great difficulties in the. way, he did not despair of arranging for the representation in the Lords of religious denominations besides Anglicans. Thero was nothing further from the thoughts of the Opposition than that the Government should accept his Bill in exchange for the House of Lords accepting tho Veto Bill Lord Morloy, Lord President of the Council, twitted Lord Lausdowne with ruling that 400 members were ineligible. The first essentials of any great scheme were stability and simplicity, and Lord Lansdowne's Bill § a. v« neither. R satisfied no one. What the Government wanted to know was tho relation of this Bill to the Veto Bill. It was the first business of the Government to carry the latter. Iho Duke of Dovonshiro and Lords Selborne and Willoughbv do Broke

Lord Lamington advocated the incorporation of colonial representation.