A BRITISH WAR ELECTION?

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2829, 21 July 1916, Page 5

A BRITISH WAR ELECTION?

COMMENTS Ifi PARLIAMENT . MOTION FOR REGISTRATION WITHDRAWN Australian-New Zealand. Cable Association.: London, July ID. In the House of Commons, Mr. Herbert Samuel (Homo Secretary) moved the' Registration Committee's report on the preparation of a new electoral register, to inoludo the troops, and to cost vfi3ooj-000. .. Ho said tho compilation of the register 'would necessitate 20,000 canvassers. He deprecated a general election. in war' time; it was unlikely, he said, that Germany would grant an armistice to enable the British troops w Sir Edward Carson protested against tho opera bouJfe manner in, whioh Mr. Herbert Samuel treated the matter. He deprecated tho belief that a general election, was impossible m war time. The question of giving the soldiers the vote had been solved, in, Australia and Canada. Tho proposed committee was * Churchill described Mr. Samuel's speech as ono long sneer. Mr. Asquith, in view of the criticisms, withdrew the motion. He denied that tho Government intended to delegate to tho Committee the decision whether a general flection was desirable in September, when the present Parliament would end. Ho promised that the Government wornld consider tho matter, and if possible bring concrete proposals beforo "uio House.