IN THE COMMONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20014, 3 December 1927, Page 7

IN THE COMMONS

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS. Received Dec. 2, 10.15 p.m. (A.P.A.-Sun) LONDON, Dec. 1. In the House of Commons, Mr Johnston asked whether the Government were considering Russian disarmament proposals. Mr Stanley Baldwin said that the only present information on the subject was derived from the newspapers. Until officially informed he w’ould prefer not to comment. The Franchise. Mr Johnston: “Before these important proposals are negatived, will an opportunity be given the House of Commons to discuss them?” Mr Baldwin: “I can add nothing to my previous answer.” Sir William Joynson-Hicks informed a questioner that if women, like men, were enfranchised at the age of 21, it was estimated that in the whole electorate of Britain there would bo twelve and a-quarter million men and fourteen and a-half million women. Powers of the Lords. In the House of Commons, the Hon. Sir Edward Carson, supporting Mr Har- i ris’ motion demanding that the Land-, lord and Tenant Bill be referred to the select committee, angrily attacked the Government, declaring, “The greatest calamity to a country iis for its Government to have an overwhelming majority. It will then listen to nobody. It thinks all its members have to do is to come to the House and say ‘we are Conservative Government upholders of the House of Lords and you must pass this Bill without examination.’ If the House is unable to throw out, or examine Bills, what are we here for?”