On Tuesday the Welsh Church Bill passed through its final
stage in the House of Commons under the Parliament Act. Mr. Ellis Griffith said that the Welsh dioceses could not be allowed to remain part of the Province of Canterbury, because a Welsh Free Church would then be controlled by an English Established Church. Only by working out her salvation untrammelled by interference from outside could the Church hope to reconcile herself to Welsh sentiment. As the debates had shown that there was no hope of agreement between the two sides, and the Lords would throw out the Bill in any case, it was useless to have a suggestion stage. In answer to this last point, Mr. Cave contended that the Lords, without reading the Bill a second time and going into Committee, could have agreed to suggestions sent up from the Commons. In that case the Bill sent to the King, although rejected by the Lords, would have been the Bill with the Commons' suggestions incorporated in it.
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