27 MAY 1911, Page 3

At the Second sitting of the Conference, on Thursday, Sir

Joseph Ward gave a detailed explanation of his scheme for an Imperial Parliament. There would be an Imperial House of Representatives, one representative for each 200,000 of the population, and an Imperial Council elected on the plan of two representatives for each Dominion and for the United Kingdom. This Imperial Parliament was to be given a right of taxation for purposes of defence, and Sir Joseph Ward suggested a tax of 10s. per bead of the population. The proposal, after being rejected by each of the other Prime Ministers, was eventually withdrawn by Sir Joseph Ward.