LORD ROSEBERY.
Locd Roaebery has added an inde- ; pendent criticism to the discussion in regard to the reform of the Hous? of Lords. He says that the sweeping, away of the Lords without substituting a check or control of the ! Command, would be a spectacle for i the overseas Dominions, which have ■ been provided with the bicameral system. His Lordship is evidently not aware that in some of the over- ; seas possessions the bicameral sys.tem is an utter farce. New Zealand, for instance, furnishes a fine example of farce in the superlative degree. Here we have a second Chamber so completely dominated by the Ministry of the day that it has become nothing more nor less than an excrescence upon the face of the body politic. As a check upon hasty and reckless legislation, it is worse than useless. It is purely and simply a haven of rest for used-up politicians, or disappointed candidates, ore political time-servers. For all practical purposes it is a negative {quantity. It is, in point of fact, a. I huge and expensive joke.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10203, 3 April 1911, Page 4
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178LORD ROSEBERY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10203, 3 April 1911, Page 4
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