PARLIAMENT BILL AGAIN

Chronicle (Levin), 1 November 1949, Page 5

PARLIAMENT BILL AGAIN

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leasare Twice Rejected By Lerds Before Commoss

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Received Tuesday, '9.30 a?m. LONDON, Oeo. 31. Both the Government and the Conservative . Opposition have issued three line whips for the secohd" reading of the Parliament Bill in the House of Commons today. It is the third time that the Bi,l, which reduces from two years "to ohe year the period by which the House of Lords can delay a Commons measiire, has been debated in the Commons in two years. The House of Lords rejected the Bill first in 1947 and then in 1948. If, as app.ears certain, the Bill passes the Commons a third time, it will become law irrespective of whether the Lords accept or reject it. The Home Secretary, Mr. J. Chuter Ede, movmg the second reading of the Bili, said it placed the Labour Party on a more equal footing with -the Conservatives. Mr. Ede added that the Government intended to use its majority not only to pass the Bill, ^but also to carry any other measures which might corrie within .the scope of the Bill. "The Commons must have the last word in any dispute between the two Houses." Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, for the Opposition, said the Bill's deliberate purpose was to dislocate and disturb production by facilitating the nationalisation of iron and steel.