[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1
SIR,--As regards the elective element in your admirable suggestions for the reform of the House of Lords, one problem arises. If votes from the great Town and County Councils form part of the scheme, women will have power to vote for Members of the Upper House. For women are eligible already as members of the London County Council, and three are now represented upon it; women are also members of Town Councils. If women become entitled to vote for Members of the Upper Chamber, it would seem absurd to deny them the right to vote for Members of the House of Commons. Thus woman suffrage, with all its attendant evils to themselves and their country, would be inevitably estab-
lished in the near future.—I am, Sir, &c., F. TRA.VERS. Tortington House, near Arundel, Sussex.
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