HOUSE OF LORDS.
THE COUNTER MEASURE.
"MENAGERIE OF CELEBRITIES."
(Keceived 8.21 a.m.)
LONDON, October 18.
The President of the Board of Agriculture (Earl Carrington), speaking at Great Yarmouth, said that Lord Newtown and the Tories proposed to create ]ife peers from -Colonial Governors, Nonconformist divines, Privy Councillors, and literary, artistic," and scientific men.
This, commented Lord Carrington, •would convert the Upper House into a sort of menagerie of celebrities, or a glorified Athenamni Club.
. [Lord, Newtown's Bill is a Conservative measure introduced early in the present year with the object of reforming the Upper House from within. After the , appointment .of a large number of life peers,, the House was to be made up by the election of a certain proportion of "hereditary peers. The Liberal proposal, on the other hand, aims at diminishing the constitutional powers of the House by limiting its powers of veto, but leaves its-composition unchanged.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 5
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150HOUSE OF LORDS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 5
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