The only important speeches made on behalf of the Govern.
ment were those of Lord Morley and Lord Crewe. Lord Morley spoke, as he always speaks, with intellectual charm, but his words contained no elucidation of the real problem. Indeed, it may be said of his speech that all it did was to point out the thickness of the fog which envelops the subject. He told the House of Lords, as we have noted else- where, that a Committee of the Liberal Cabinet in 1894 found it impossible to deal with the question because they could not make up their minds whether they wanted to strengthen or weaken the House of Lords. That is still the problem before the Liberal Government and the Liberal Party, and it is clear that they have not yet made up their minds. Some of them talk of strengthening, i.e., reform, and others talk of nothing but weakening, or rather destruction, through the abolition of the veto. The Opposition, at any rate, know their own minds. They desire reform and the strengthening of the Upper House.
