HOUSE OF LORDS
REFORM PROPOSED GOVERNMENT URGED TO INTRODUCE A BILL By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. March 22, 55 pm.) London, March 21.
The House of Lords accepted the Earl of Selborne’s motion urging the Government to introduce a measure reforming the House of Lords at the earliest possible moment. Ho said that if the Labour Parly converted a majority of the people the country had a perfect right to carry out its revolutionary programme under the Parliament Act.
Viscount Bryce seconded the motion. Viscount Haldane said the only way the democracy could be driven into paths qf revolution was by the powers of the House of Lords. It was putting the cart before the horse to make proposals without finding out what would commend itself to the Labour Party. Earl Curzon said a committee of the Cabinet had been considering the reconstruction of tho House of Lords. It was a gigantic task, equivalent to remodelling the Constitution of the country. He hoped that next session the Government would introduce a measure which would have the hacking inside and outside of Parliament that was essential to its success. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 152, 23 March 1921, Page 5
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