IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 269, 23 March 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

"RARING OUT WASTE BASKETS." A MINISTER'S ACCUSATION. AN APOLOGY DEMANDED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 22, 10.45 p.m. London, March 22. In the House of Commons Mr. Samuel Hoare (Unionist member for Chelsea) initiated a debate on the circular issued by the divisional inspectors of the Educational Department, deprecating the appointment of ex-elementary teachers as local inspectors, and suggesting that they were uncultured, imperfectly educated, and socially inferior, and claiming that inspectors shotild be educated at Oxford or Cambridge Universities, or at public schools. Mr. Walter Runciman, President of the BoaTd of Education, said he did not know of the issue of the document, ■which was confidential, and merely contained the chief inspector's opinion. We accused Mr. Hoare of raking out the waste paper baskets at White Hall, or receiving stolen goods. Mr. Balfour denounced Mr. Runciman's violence, and invited him to apologise to Mr. Hoare. CHE GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS. i' London, March 22. The Times states that the Government proposes a month's Parliamentary holiday from May 25. The Parliamentary Bill will be sent to the House of Lords early in May. The serious debate on the Bill will take place after the holiday. THE IRISH QUESTION. A SPIRIT OF CONCILIATION. Received 22, 10.45 p.m. London, March 22. Mr. O'Brien, in a letter to the Times, says he is deeply gratified at the spirit of conciliation shown in Mr. Redmond's recent speeches, particularly his declara*-" 1 tion that the Irish nation must exclude no one, of whatever race, or creed, or class. He begs Mr. Redmond to restore complete* harmony among Nationalists by circulating his conciliatory speeches among the United Irish League. REFORM OF THE LORDS. LORD SELBORNE'S PROPOSALS. Received 23, 12.10 a.m. ■ London, March 22. Lord Selborne, speaking at Glasgow, said the Unionists earnestly desired reform of the House of Lords, but there iwere left and right wings. He urged the right wing to remember that inequality in the representation of parties was a serious evil, engendering a sense of injustice. Moreover, without reconstruction, it was impossible to place the Crown outside of party politics. The Opposition intended to propose, in conjunction with two more, the following methods: Election by county council, and selection by hereditary, peers and by the Prime Minister. The Unionists would propose that the Lords should definitely renounce concern in finance matters, with strict provision against tacking. They would be ready to refer a decision in the case of a deadlock to a committee composed of an equal number of members of both Houses, the Speaker of the House presiding. Lord Selborne completes the outline of the reforms at Edinburgh to-day.