26 JULY 1924, Page 2

Meanwhile the Housing Bill is ploughing its way through the

House of Commons. The Government is making the most strenuous efforts to send it to the Lords by the end of this week, and it looks as if they might just do it, since it is natural that, quite apart from political con- siderations, the members of the other parties will be no more anxious than the Government to put off their holidays longer than necessary. Mr. Wheatley is showing an unexpected conciliatoriness, and on the other hand he is undoubtedly finding no desire in either the Liberals or the Conservatives to wreck his measure. It has been very considerably amended, and the Bill which will go to the House of Lords will be a decidedly different one from that which Mr. Wheatley first introduced.

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