PLURAL VOTING BILL.
HEAVY PENALTIES. By TeleiraDh—Press Association—Copyritrh. London, April 9. The Bill to abolish plural voting at general elections introduced by Mr. Pease, President of the Board of Education, deprives offenders from holding any public ofiice or voting for seven years. The "Manchester Guardian" considers the Bill unsatisfactory, as it does not require an doctor's registration for only one constituency, but gives him liberty to select at the last moment the constituency in which ho will vote and the place whero ho will bo registered. ' MOBE ELECTORAL REFORM". London, April P. In. tho House of Commons, Sir Henry lumber, Unionist member for Wandsworth, introduced a Hedistribution of Seats Bill, providing that every constituency with ' upwards of ,G5,0Q0 voters shall be represented by one member, with an additional member for every completed 05,000.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 5
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133PLURAL VOTING BILL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 5
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