Lord Morley, Though He Doubted The Necessity Of Getting The
Royal Assent at that stage, was quite willing, on behalf of the Government, to agree to the motion. The Government had no desire whatever to place any technical difficulty in......
Lord Lansdowne Discussed The Bill Sympathetically, And...
Opposition entirely accepted the Referendum as a means for settling disputes between the two Houses. The suggestion, however, that a minority of the House of Commons might bring......
On Thursday Lord Lansdowne, As A Preliminary To The...
of his Bill for the reform of the House of Lords, moved an Address asking the consent of the Crown to the introduction of a Bill which would limit the Prerogative in the matter......
The Scandal Of The Government Policy — We Can Call It No,
iess—is that an interregnum of at le - ast two or three years to exist in which, though the House of Lords has been paralysed as a part of the Legislature, no effort is to be......
The Debate Was Resumed On Wednesday By Lord Beauchamp, Who
argued strongly against a Referendum as being conser- vative rather than democratic. Lord Cromer, who spoke next, began by emphasising the necessity for a stable settle- ment of......
Lord Sheffield, Speaking Against The Bill Later In The...
said it was the maddest recklessness to try to convert the responsible and deliberative Government of this country into a mere plebiscitary government, to be sluggish in quiet......
The General Impression Which We Cannot Help Deriving From...
debate is that while the Unionist peers showed them- selves on the whole open-minded and prepared to accept new ideas, the Liberals fell back on a dogged and unreasoning......
Lord Rosebery Next Proceeded To Ask : Was It To
be a one- sided revolution, or an attempt to settle the question by co-operation? The last general election, he argued, gave them no right to infer that the country approved of......
We Are Bound To Say That We Sympathise Very Strongly
with Lord Rosebery's plea for a national settlement in which, though no doubt the Government in power must have a pre- dominant voice, due weight - would be given to the views......
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