THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 April 1910, Page 3

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

DISCUSSION AT WKSTMIN.S.KR

A SINGLE CHAM UKR

[BY ELECTRIC TELKGRAPn-COPYRIOHT.]

fI'ER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] , '■" LONDON, March 81. Tre Hoii'e of (.'oiunwrs continued ihi dcbata on Mr As(|uith's motion: "That this_ Hmiss rtralye ibelf into a committee to consider the re!.t- - ' tions of the two. Houses, ?nd the dtHnticn of Parliament." Mr I' 1 . ■ ,'- ' . E. Smith, Unionist member for the Walton Division of Liverpool, sjii'l the Government's view v,:>s that "" . whatever the House of OcmnrMis "j ' said thrice must lie right, but if sin 7, /, ' assembly could he wrong twi"p why " •.■!' not a third time? The Govern:'.iv - giant's real object was not that the *£* /' w tue P- fl^e ' but #*.;/'" ".will of the Radical caucus, should prevail. $f'•V''"' Lord Hugh Cecil (Unionist mem- • ber for Oxford University) said that j4- /-' every constitution of the colonics ft it* Bfw & the Second Clmmher the right to reject, but not to initiate or "amend, n Pinancs Bill. ft w.ns a jvfi'-!', ' right ithat had. been copied from "'<.-'-', 'what was universally regarded as ';s: '-I"'. Ji rule in Great Britain regulating *Mvlr~.' the , relations between the two h •y .;,-■ Houses, ' ;Y\'s , TJie Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Eight Hon. Augustine Bin-ell, replied that ■■the cojonias had not a historical House of Commons. the future constitution -* x of the House of Lords, the peoples I'fcjV',- I '' of"' Britain wouL never .allow it to IWiCa-',assert the power of rejpoting a financial proposals. was no possibility of a eomH»rsp promi.Sß with the Lords on the fjucsof finance. Meanwhile a not branch reform of the House of K^^i'Lords was not' immediately prac■ip«i|| I jb'.'i tionble, and Mr Acquit h wc.s tlierejustified in his present prop's-