BRITISH POLITICS
FORTY-TWO YEARS OF GOVERNMENT BY PEERS. The following is a record of the treatment of Liberal proposals by the House of Lords since 1808: 1808 to 1874. Irish Church Disestablishment resolutions—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 Lability and Value Bill—rejected. Deceased Wife's Sister Bill—rejected. 1970. Anti-Vivisection Bill—rejected, 1880 to 1885. 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 county householders) rejected. 1892 to 1895. Home Rule Bill—rejected. Employers' Liability Bill— wrecked. Railway Servants (Hours of Labor) Bill —mutilated. Scottish Fisheries Bill—mutilated. Parish Councils Bill—mutilated. Land Transfer Bill—rejected. Evicted Tenants Bill—rejected Denied the L.C.C. the Right of Representation on the Thames Conservancy. ''Bettejunent" Principle—rejected. Local Government (Scotland) Billmutilated. University of Wales Charter-rejected. Refused to allow Lincoln's-inn-fields to be open to the public. Two Welsh Education Schemes—rejected. Deceased Wife's Sister Bill—rejected 1805. L.C.C. Bill for Over-bridge Trams—rejected.
1906 to 1910. Education Bill—^wrecked. Plural Voting Bill—rejected. Small Landowners (Scotland) Bill, 1007 —wrecked. Land Values (Scotland) Bill, 1907—rejected. Evicted 1 Tenants (Ireland) Bill—mutilatcd» Small Landowners (Scotland) Bill, 1008 —rejected. Land Values (Scotland) Bill, 1908— wrecked. Licensing Bill—rejected. Coal Mines (Eight Fours) Bill—mutilated Loudon Elections B : 'l—rejected: Ins!) Land Bill—mut ilaited'. Housing nnd Town-Planning Bill—mutilated. Scottish House-Letting Bill—wrecked. Finance Bill, 1909—rejected. .In a 'i fchese forty-two years not a single rory Government Bill has been rejected or mutilated bv the Lords
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 45, 15 August 1911, Page 8
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270BRITISH POLITICS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 45, 15 August 1911, Page 8
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