10 NOVEMBER 1923, Page 3

Support for the Referendum is increasing. Sir Ellis Hume-Williams and

Colonel G. Dalrymple White, both Members of Parliament, have shown in particularly cogent letters to the Times the exceptional advantages of applying a Referendum to a Finance Bill based on Mr. Baldwin's fiscal scheme. There would be a clear issue instead of an involved one as at an election. If Mr. Baldwin won we should be saved all the turmoil and expense of a quite unnecessary General Election.