In the House of Lords on Tuesday there was a
debate on the second reading of Lord Salisbury's Bill to set up an interim Register and to provide machinery for sailors and soldiers to vote. Lord Lansdowne said that the Government naturally approved of the main principle of the Bill as by their own - Bill, which -was new hung up, ninety per cent, of the soldiers over twenty-one years of
age would be added to the Register. But he could not encourage the proposal that facilities should bagiven forealdiers to vote at the front. Lord Salisbury declared that he would press his Bill unless the Government prodemed one of their-own, and the second readipg was agreed to. For our part we feel that soldiers and mikes have earned their right to vnte by an.ahsehitely indefeasible claim. Not a single attested soldier or sailor should be voteless.
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