WELLINGTON TOPICS

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1919, Page 5

WELLINGTON TOPICS

ijj the ULTIMATE ISSUE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) j, T , , ■ Wellington, October lit./ V « ia realised on all hands that the Resent _ difficulty between the two ouses is going to bring the suggestion for the abolition of the second Chamber into more prominence during the anK"!' g ele f i i ° n tlmn U otherwise ttould have obtained. Even Dr. Newman, who is not given to talking at • ar ge, said he long had believed there was no virtue in tho bi-cameral system of legislation, which brought about Incessaiit friction without securing any compensating advantages, Mr Isitt quoted the old saw, "Whom tie cods wish to destroy they first make mad," and neatly applied it to the condition and impending fate of the Council. The Labor members were all for abolition as their accepted policy prescribes, and on this occasion they found more gympathisers tlian they ever had done b«fore. It is doubtful if a majority of the present House is yet ready for snch a. radical reform, but the election campaign may stimulate public opinion in this direction;