25 NOVEMBER 1911, Page 2

Monday and Tuesday were the last two days allotted for

the Committee stage of the Insurance Bill in the House of Commons. The ornacipal amendment discussed on Tuesday was one moved by Mr. Hamersley for the exclusion from the Bill of domestic servants. Mr. Lloyd George spoke against it with much indignation. He criticised with the greatest heat the newspaper agitation upon the question and ridiculed the idea that servants would consent to exclusion when they realized what was to be done for them. After Mr. Austen Chamberlain had declared that be could not support the amend- ment, a division was taken and the amendment defeated by 241 votes to 5.