HOUSE OF LORDS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 26 June 1926, Page 8

HOUSE OF LORDS.

PROPOSED VOTE FOR PEERESSES. raa nns hbociatio*—oofibiam* LONDON, June 24. In the House of Lords Viscount Astor moved tire second reading of a Bill to enable Peeresses, in their own rights, to sit and vote in the House of Lords. The same Bill was rejected last year by 80 votes to 78. Lord Astor said it would entitle twenty-two ladies to take their seats. Lord Banbury moved the rejection of the Bill. He said, “let these ladies go before the electors and enter the House of Commons, if they want to legislate.” Lord Robert Cecil said he could not see how the Bill would affect the reform of the House of Lords, which he hoped w’ould ,not be long delayed. No new arguments had been adduced to justify the House departing from its previous decision. The second reading was negatived by 125 votes to 80.