HOUSE OF LORDS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10203, 3 April 1911, Page 5

HOUSE OF LORDS.

LORD ROSEBERY SPEAKS

GOVERNMENT'S ACTION REVOL-

UTIONARY

(Received April 1, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, March 31. Lord Rosebery, in a speech in the House of Lords on Lord Lansdowne's resolution, said he * opposed constitutional reform emanating from private sources. Reform of the Lords need ,not be revolutionary, but might oe beneficent. However, the Government's action was revolutionary in proposing to sweep away a House coeval in antiquity with the House of Commons without substituting provision for the slightest check or control of the Commons. The overseas delegates from the Commonwealth would have a spectacle of a Government which endowed them with the bicameral system seeking to destroy its Settlement of the question should be by co-operation of the not by a., one-sided .revolution. Lord Rosebery argued that the Government ought .to introduce a Bill, it being, alone able to carry such a .measure, reforming the House of Lords . The Government was not entitled to infer from the general election that the country approved of the obliteration of the Second Chamber without substituting another, and announcement of the Government's intentions should not be bug delayed.