_ Parliament was prorogued on Thursday, December 22nd. Those members
of the House of Lords who had tried" to ain@nd theAlltindlOmblitind Tenant Bill So that premises covered by the Rent Restrictions Act should be excluded objected very strongly to the disappearance • of their clause. They did not resent the refusal of the :Commons, as such,. so much as . the fact_ that the Bill had been rushed through in a hurry at the. fag-end of the Session, and they had thus no opportunity to argue their case to a proper conclusion.' Both- the Lard Chan- cellor and Lard Salisbury plainly thought that the resentful Peers deserved sympathy. But this is an old cause of complaint—the hounding of the Upper House at the last moment. When the Bill was returned to the House of Commons without the proposed clause it was accepted without much further comment.
