2 APRIL 1910, Page 13

THE HOUSE OF LORDS PROBLEM.

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,-I have been surprised to find that both parties and all speakers ignore one aspect of this question,—viz., the logical consequence of any exclusion from the House of Lords being admission to the House of Commons. No possible reform can disfranchise a blameless class. I write less in the hope of your inserting this bald statement of a truism than of its eliciting your own opinion on the issue.—I am, Sir, &c., A CONSTANT READER. [We have always assumed that in the case of a reformed - House of Lords inclusion in the Upper Chamber alone, and not the possession of a peerage, would prevent election to

the Commons. Any other plan would be grossly unjust— ED. Spectator.]