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On Monday the House of Commons also debated the Honours

scandal. Mr. G. Locker-Lampson proposed that a Select Committee of both Houses should be appointed. Mr. Lloyd George said that the Government were quite prepared to assent to any re-examination of the question of Honours which would be satisfactory to the House of Commons. While agreeing that inquiry was desirable, however, he declared that the sort of objection that was being raised now had always been raised. It was natural that owing to the War and the increase, both of population and wealth—the remark about wealth deserved the ironical cheer it obtained—the number of Honours should have greatly increased.

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