LIBERALS AND LORDS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 812, 9 May 1910, Page 7

LIBERALS AND LORDS.

' ; STUFFING PROCESS. ■PANTOMIME PEERS—A UNIONIST PROTEST. CABINET AND CROWN. Sir Teleeriph-Presa Asaoclation-CoorrleliL London, Hay 6. Loid Curzou, speaking at Reading, paid tho country was shocked at the taanner in. which tho Crown had been brought into a political controversy. •Bio suggestion that 000 Peers should Jjo created, that they should ho in- '. Btrncted to buy robes and coronets, and then, be sent to tho House of Lords like '. well-drilled ' stage supers to voto for reduction of tho Upper Chamber to ■a nullity, was not politics, -but" pantojaime. . ! '; . . Hβ quoted Mr. Asquith's statement on !April 14 to prove that Sir E. Grey. (Secretary, of State for tho Colonies) was wrong in saying that nothing had been said concerning the advice to bo given to' the King. . Mr. Asquith's statement had 'been interpreted, not only by members of the House of Comjnons, but throughout tho country, as )» demand for ■ the creation of Peers. .Dealing with the question of the reconstruction 'of tho Second Chamber, \L6rd Curzon suggested, that fivo Liberals, and five Conservatives, with an finrpartial chairman, should sit in private for six months, and draft a new lOonstitution. [Mr. AsquitVs speech in the Hquso joi Commons on April 14, on tho subject of the Government's veto proposals, was quoted in Friday's issue.]