In the House of Commons on Thursday night Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman moved to discharge the Order for the consideration of tbe Lords' reasons for their amendments to the Education Bill,—the Parliamentary form under which a Bill is dropped. The chief point of his speech was that the loss of the Bill was due solely to Mr. Balfour. At the bidding of a party ' which was condemned at the General Election as no party was ever condemned before, the House of Lords had refused a settlement of the education controversy: Turning to the general question of the position of the Lords, the Prime Minister declared that it was plainly intolerable that a Second Chamber should, while one party in the State was in power, be its willing servant, and when that party had received an unmistakable and emphatic condemnation by the country should then be able to neutralise, thwart, and distort the policy which the electors had approved. " But, Sir," he ended, " the resources of the British Constitution are not wholly exhausted, the resources of the House of Commons are not exhausted, and I say with conviction that a way must be found, a way will be found, by which the will of the people expressed through their elected representatives in this House will be made to prevail."
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