THE EDUCATION BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81896, 29 November 1906, Page 2

THE EDUCATION BILL.

NONCONFORMISTS' VIEWS. London, November 27. ! Rev. Dr, Clifford, in a loiter to the Press, violently assails the episcopal obligarchy in 'the House of Lords, and declares that amendments in iiii. Education Bi.l must be rejected or the Nonconformists may resort to passive resistance to the extent of embarrassing the Government Dr. Clifford urged the creation 0f.300 Radical peers or 'the formation of a second chamber on colonial lines.

DETERMINATION OF THE LIBERALS. LORDS' AMENDMENTS MUST BE REJECTED. FIGHTING SPEECH BY THE PREMIER. DRASTIC STEPS TO DEAL WITH THE LORDS.. Received 28th, 10.30 p.m. London, November 28. Arthur Acland, presiding at an emergency meeting of the general committee of. the National Liberal Federation at Caxton Hall, Westminster,urged the House of Commons not to waste a day re-debating any Bill, but to return Bills to the Lords, one by one, wihout debate. The remedy must be great, drastic, effective .and final.

Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman wrote that the Education Bill, as amended, was of no use to them or the country. It was apparent that the Lords presumed to know the country's mind better than the country or the House of Commons did. He continued: "One thing you may rest assured, we can have no tampering with the main principles of the Bill. If within those limits, without injury to education, an arrangemen is possible, well and good; if not, it is for us to see in this and other questions that a way is found whereby the wishes of the country are made to prevail. But the battle will continue until the House of Lords is greatly modified or annihilated."

It 'ivas resolved, amidst enthusiasm, to urge the rejection of the amendments, and the abolition, during the present Parliament, of the House ofJL.ords' Veto.