"THE OTHER PLACE."

Mataura Ensign, Volume VI, Issue 285, 31 August 1883, Page 2

"THE OTHER PLACE."

At the beginning of the present most poverty-stricken session the Governs ment played Sir G, Grey a nasty trick by robbing him of the Amrmations'in lieu of Oaths Bill. They evidently attached some importance to it or they would not have gone out of their way to plunder the party " with a policy. They got the Bill through the Lower House and sent it to " the other place. ' ,~"— noe it was thrown i»to outer dark■llu - . '* -Afcea to 14/ Thus tbis much ness by 19 .*, - a uiuttty gages Ul enduring country ptij ._ -** ■*•-» -oa<te one House £200 a year cacti -^ A

Bills. ■It then pays fifty sagers an equal sum each to thrown the same Bills out. This is one of the p'edge.s of our liberty dear to every Englishman. It seems to us when the Council agrees with the House the Council is not needed, and when it differs from the House either it or the Honse should be abolished. The Council has,hovvever, done one wise thing of late, that is resolving not to • ass Bills at the end of the session without reasonable tirneTfor considering them. Last year it was a mere mangle. The handle was turned and Bills were fed in like sheets and t-'ihlH clo.-h- . This was a rare illustration <-f the value of the patriotic Lord?. Tims, if ihey could consider in an hour a Bill that occupied the Commons a week then the Commons should be sent homo to their mothers, but if the Lords passed the Bills without considering them at all then they should haye been sent to still " another place " for false presences.