THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1914, Page 4

THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

A writer in "Tin' Nation" remarks' that the British Liberals in their keen-I ness about Ireland, are apt to for-' rot that a still more vital question i iwaits them next session the reconstitution of the House of Lords. Be- _ fore the session closed, a group of: back-bench Liberals met informally and, as the Prime Minister would say,' "exchanged views." They found themselves all agreed on one point—-that j in elective body would be fatal to the Liberal scheme of things, and that.

they could not support it. One hears much, rumor of Cabinet plans., including a report that it lias considered :a.d inclined to a mixed plan of election bj the constituencies and nomination by the House of Commons (on a plan of proportional representation). The latter takes, no doubt, the road along which Liberals would most willingly travel, though all ways to a "reformed" House of Lords make bad walking for democrats. But it is hard to diagnose the effect on the Liberal constitution of a mixture of a good—or, let us say, a less bad —method with ;i quite impossible one. '"What the patient really wants is freedom to take or to leave whatever ingenious medicament may be prescribed for him.