The Electoral Reform Bill The Government are enjoying fairly calm
weather after the recent storm. Their ship has clawed off the land where it was embayed, and at the moment it is not in danger. The arrangement with the Liberals, though we do not know how stable it is, seems to be working satisfactorily. The majority of Liberals want the Alternative Vote and can cherish the hope of getting it so long as they do not kill the Trade Disputes Bill. The two Bills are being driven along together step for step like a pair of horses. The second debate on tho Electoral Reform 13111 was continued in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Sir Hilton Young; who did justice to the unreserved dislike of the Unionists for the Bill, said that it would upset the present simple method of finding out the wishes of the voters and would provide instead a maze of subtleties and calculations -Which would mystify the real electoral issues. He emphatically objected to the abandonment of University representation, which notoriously brought to the House of Commons richness and originality of thought.
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