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TWO BILLS TO BE INTRODUCED. (Received Lust Night, 10.10 o'clock) LONDON, February 28. The old age pensions estimate covering the ,ye;ir is £12,415,000. The Finance Bill will be taken next week in the House of Commons, after which the committee stage of the Parlfament Bill will occupy three weeks .under the operation of the guillotine.
REFORM OF THE HOUSE OF
LORDS. THE DEBATE CONTINUED. Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock. LONDON, February 28. In the House of Commons, the Hon R. Haldane, continuing, declared that the Second Chamber, if properly constituted, t would /be sympathetic like the perfect wife, and would comfort and warn, but not command. He added: "The Government was pledged to use the Parliament Bill as a stepping stone to the reformed Second Chamlber." He quoted Mr Asquith's speech of last March that this reform was urgent. He concluded by saying that it.was conferring on the other House a great power enabling it to reject a measure three times. The Labourites, Nationalists and others continued the debate. The House iwas not crowded, and the attendance at the dinner hour was below a quorum. Writing to The Times, the Duke of Argyle suggests the establishment of local Legislatures similar to the . United States, governing a small area only, which would .secure the paramountey of the Union Government. The union of counties could be represented in the House of Lords and have subordinate legislative
I powers. 1 ,The Glasgow Herald says that a conviction is spreading that a, purely elective Second Chamber' is essential. The Lords' reform would he useless unless approved of by the I bulk of the Liberals. The schemes I ba'sed on Lords' Lansdowne and Curj zon'si proposals are dead. Large I constituencies with several 'memj hers elected by proportional represi sentation would so far free the \ Second Chamber from ordinary party J division.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10177, 1 March 1911, Page 5
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318BRITISH POLITICS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10177, 1 March 1911, Page 5
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