THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 11

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Bjeeal reform mhh. fIVB VOTE DISCUSBBP. us ASSOCIATION* —BT ELECTJtJC JjXOiAPH— COPYJUQHT.) LONDON. March 4. Ittee in the House of Combo Electoral Reform Bill, pent accepted au amendlb)j alternative vpto should till next general election, el Hoaro moved the reject alternative vote clause, it the couutry Had not clothe Conservatives were PPLabour was divided or tha 1 the Liberals wero halfhe elections would bo eonthe last candidates' secinces, possibly by the few ites given to the Coinhere would bo wangling ho'artics, and the system, ingiving representation to might be used to suppress ither. Ho appealed to the , to allow a free vote on the 8 1 said that they could .tfot s present system, which relovernment by minority ther the Conservatives nor jnions had adopted the ret past the post in adopttes. However the leaders amend the distribution of great mass of the electors ilv make up their own vote accordingly. If the ted to, they could crush ird Party. , ickett recalled Mr Ramsay g declaration that the al ~ jte would ruin the Labour : h had always refused to idatc for it The Govern' need it in defiance of Party a order to entertain the another six to twelve |i a spectacle of degrada-

■DKutin CbajnberJain was opposed mflitia', because it was essen—vßm. success of pur parliamen- j HB&kitioiU! to have a Party, not The latter would i WKmL Hoqbo qE Commons a mar net ■HB instead of being a great deHHm'' Assembly. The country s , Igggggf present need "Was j* Govern- | BMBlji'nfir pnoo«b to govern. in© , HB™ r 'imike the Govern mens-, weaß ■■FBeow of Commons ineffective. was carried by 277 to 2oJ j BY-ELECTION, H&ST FOR CONSERVATIVE Bp C^NPJDAT^. m . tONPPN, ifarcb *■ Hnti|p«»rratim% M St. Hbfe?, tywp* to ask W? Cipoper fo contest the ■Efot Sir Swajf ! Lady NIM proW g MKffimtge'a i* ih» seat iMutepa fcanonrs ip' Modern if," ' ; " f |p>Y MOfflfflT icjuuyris I J mtnh'i. :j jr Mc&ley (wife- pf gir Oa^a]^ M. to Sir . r'Sli^sj).