HOUSE OF LORDS
REFORM BILL DEBATED. Received Mav 9. 9.5 p.m. LONDON, May 9. In the House of Lords, before a large attendance, with many peeresses in the gallery, the Marquess of Salisbury moved the second reading of the Lords Reform Bill. Lord Redesdale moved its rejection. He said that such an important constitutional measure should be a Government and not a private Bill. Lord Snell said that the Marquesiof Salisbury was seeking statutory authority to make Toryism safe for eternity and prevent the will of the people prevailing. Lord Reading said the Bill was a most dangerous attempt to amend the Parliament Act. It would not result in the strengthening but the abolition of the House. Lord Hailsham said that constitutional reform had not formed part of the crisis which had brought the National Government. into being, and was not discussed at the last election. Reform of such magnitude should be introduced by the Government. It was decided that Ministers should not take part in Hie division to-morrow.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 5
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