4 MARCH 1911, Page 2

On Tuesday the debate was continued by Mr. Lyttelton, who

declared that in three or four years' time they would I have Single-Chamber government, combined with an irritating; power of delay in the Upper House. "Did anybody ever hear of a popular assembly that had once tasted the sweets of ; absolutism ever resigning them ? " Colonel Seely, in the course of his reply, pointed out that under the South ; African Constitution a Government with a majority of only thirteen in the Lower House would be able, by means of a joint sitting, to pass a Bill rejected by the Upper House within a year of its introduction.