GOVERNMENT BY PEERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1030, 15 August 1911, Page 4

GOVERNMENT BY PEERS.

The following is a record of the treatment of Liberal proposals by the House of Lords since 1868 : 1868 to 1874. Irish Church Disestablishment resolution —rejected. University Tests Bill—rejected (twice). Irish Church Bill—mutilated. Life Peerage Bill—rejected. Irish Land Bill—mutilated. Ballot Bill —rejected, and subsequently mutilated. Army Purchase Bill—rejected. Refused to amend Burial Laws. Bill to allow Nonconformist burials in churchyards—rejected. Rating Liability and Value Bill—rejected. Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill — rejected. 1579. Anti-Vivisection Bill—rejected. ISBO to ISBS. Compensation for Disturbance (Ireland) Bill—rejected. Land Bill (Ireland) —mutilated. Cornwall Sunday Closing Bill —rejected. Arrears Bill (Ireland) —mutilated. Bill against Trap Pigeon Shooting—rejected. Agricultural Holdings Act — mutilated. Franchise Bill (giving the vote to 2,000,000 country householders) —rejected. Mines and Truck Acts —mutilated. Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill — rejected. 1592 to 1895. Home Rule Bill —rejected. Employers’ Liability Bill — wrecked. Railway Servants (Hours of Labour) Bill—mutilated. Scottish Fisheries Bill —mutilated. Parish Councils Bill—mutilated. Laud Transfer Bill —rejected. Evicted Tenants Bill—rejected. Denied the L.C.C. the Right of Representation on the Thames Conservancy. “ Betterment ” Principle—rejected. Local Government (Scotland) Bill —mutilated. University of Wales Charter — rejected. Refused to allow Lincoln’s-in-fields to be open to the public. Two Welsh Education Schemes —rejected. Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill—rejected. 1905. L.C.C. Bill for Over-bridge Trams —rejected. 1906 TO 1910. Education Bill—wrecked. Plural Voting Bill—rejected. Small Landowners (Scotland) Bill, 1907 —wrecked. Land Values (Scotland) Bill, 1907 — rejected. Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Bill —mutilated. Small Landowners (Scotland) Bill, 1903— rejected. Land Values (Scotland) Bill, 1908 — wrecked. Licensing Bill —rejected. Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Bill —mutilated. Loudon Elections Bill—rejected. Irish Land Bill —mutilated. Housing and Town Planning Bill —mutilated. Scottish House-Letting Bill — wrecked. — Finance Bill, 1909 —rejected. In all these forty-two years not a single Tory Government Bill has been rejected or mutilated by the Lords.