3 JUNE 1911, Page 3

In this context we may note that before the House

adjourned on Thursday Mr: Balfour and the Prime Minister discussed the possibility of carrying out Mr. Lloyd George's suggestion that each party in the House should elect a smal. number of representatives to act with the Chancellor and the Government in doing the rough work of the Committee Though nothing very definite was settled it would appear that the Leader of the Opposition is willing to adopt this plan. The new departure will be witched with interest, for it will give us a stage something like that of the examination of Bills by the Bureaux which takes place in France. Meantime the great obstacle to the Bill being made into a good Bill remains— the preposterous determination of the Government to force it through this year.