The House of Commons on Tuesday- was concerned with Colonel
glutei's proposal that the Boundary Commissioners should
act on the assumption that Proportional Representation was not adopted. The debate then turned upon whether Pro- portional Representation should or should not be included in the Bill. The Attorney-General, Sir P. E. Smith, made a strong speech An. favour of Proportional Representation and expressed a feeling which, we are sure, is shared by a great many other people. He had made up his mind to abandon his objection to the politicae enfranchisement of women, but it was on condition that the House accepted the Reform proposals as .a whole. One of the findings of the Speaker's Conference which reconciled him to Female Suffrage was the proposal relating to Proportional Representation, which, he recalled, was recommended unanimously, while the adoption cf Woman Suffrage was recommended only by a majority. He warned the House that to rule out the scheme of Proportional Representation would be to strike a death-blow at the whole super- structure of the great concordat.
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