25 APRIL 1931, Page 11

GOVERNMENT IN OUR DAY.

" One of the difficulties of the Government," says Wednesday's Times, " is that all the Standing Committees already have Bills before them." Three of the measures responsible for this congestion are the Agricultural Marketing Bill, the Consumers Council Bill, and the Town and Country Planning Bill. The titles of the others are as follows : the Improvement of Livestock (Licensing of Bulls) Bill, the Ancient Monuments Bill, the British Museum and National Gallery (Overseas Loans) Bill, the Grey Seals Protection Bill, and the Sentence of Death (Expectant Mothers) Bill. Else- where in the same issue the Times announces the number of the unemployed as 2,561,054.