LORD CURZON

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 31 December 1907, Page 2

LORD CURZON

SHOULD HE SIT IN THE HOUSE OE LORDS? United Press Association —Copyright (Received Dec. 30, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 30.1 M itli Lord Abercorn’s and Lorn Londonderry’s warm support-, Lori Curzon, in a letter to the Iria-. Peers, agrees to stand for the vac:ut> cy due to Lord Kilmarne’s death/;] Ho explains that the strain of wor}fej in India prevents liis. seeking a scats in the House of Commons. He add A that he is debarred from entering t!» a House of Lords by the ordinary chad nels by the [Premier’s refusal to allot him t o sit with all other ex-A ceros of India on those benches. '.’j The Daily News says the letter l amazing. If Lord Curzon did ns • ask for an English peerage he had it. grievance, and if he had asked K - would have none. It were well him to keen his grievance to himse’.M-S The Times considers that Lord Cuipi? zon s claims to a seat in the Lordi?; are too clear to need argumentPP When he accepted the Vicerovaltvhi ' ambition was to return to the Hons/ of Commons. In view of that inten 1:on tlie Irish Peerage conferred, in stead of as originally intended ’ th 1 eerage of tlie United Kingdom would have been a graceful and lie\ coming act for the Premier to hav* X acceded tlie natural and reasona" dd representations advanced in. favor allowing Lord Curzon to sit in tejffj Lords. The journal trusts ’tliat 1 hii Irish Peers will restore to public lift a. man of eminence, whom the Pre t mier shuts out.