Mr. Asquith's Main Objection To Using The Referendum To...
deadlocks between the two Houses is that the Refer- endum would only be applied to Liberal legislation, and that the Lords would never add a Referendum clause to Unionist......
On Thursday Sir Robert Finlay Moved An Amendment To Mr.
Asquith's Motion to the effect that a strong and efficient Second Chamber was necessary, and that the Rouse, while willing to consider proposals for reform, "decline to proceed......
News Of The Week.
O N Tuesday Mr. Asquith moved the first section of his Resolutions for dealing with the so-called veto of the House of Lords. We have dealt elsewhere with the main part of his......
Among The Speakers On Wednesday Night Was Lord Hugh Cecil,
who declared that the effect of party government would be to make the second and third discussions of a measure nothing but an empty form. "There is no greater hypocrisy than to......
Mr. Redmond, Who Followed Mr. Balfour—whose Speech We...
giving the Resolutions "a hearty and general support," ended with some remarks, none the less sinister because they were veiled, which showed that his attitude towards the......
After Pointing Out That There Was No Analogy Between The
disuse of the veto of the Crown and the so-called veto of the House of Lords, because the Crown now acted on the advice of Ministers, and no Minister would advise the Crown to......
Mr. Churchill, Who Wound Up Thursday's Debate For The...
after painting a terrific picture of the tremendous power of correction and discrimination which would be left to the Peers under the Government proposal, and after denouncing......
