Thursday's Debate Was Opened By Lord. Selborne In A...
speech. He pointed out that if the Parliament Bill became law in its present state the House of Commons would not resemble any other First Chamber in the world; nor would there......
An Astonishing Article Appears In The Current Number Of The
British Weekly under the beading of "The Danger of the Government." In it a violent attack is made on Lord Loreburn, who is charged with continuing to appoint " Tory magistrates......
The Debate Was Continued On Wednesday By Lord Cromer, Who
made a weighty protest against withdrawing the Lords' control over finance at a time when there was such an enormous increase in expenditure taking place—a protest which has our......
In The House Of Lords On Tuesday The Debate Upon
the Second Reading of the Parliament Bill was begun. Lord Morley began by maintaining that the House had admitted the night before in the most formal and definite manner that......
On Friday Week The House Of Commons Discussed The Second
reading of Mr. Hayes Fisher's Bill for amending the Old-age Pensions Act, and Mr. Hobhouse took the opportunity of sum- marizing the chief points in the Bill that the Government......
The Second Reading Debate On The Insurance Bill Began In
the House of Commons on Wednesday. Mr. Buxton, in his opening speech, dealt principally with the part of the Bill concerned with unemployment. He maintained that the experiment,......
The Debate Upon The Second Reading Of Lord Lansdowne's...
Bill was concluded in the House of Lords on Monday. During the earlier part of the sitting the Bill was criticized by several Opposition Peers, amongst whom was the Duke of......
Lord Newton, Who Always Speaks With Shrewdness As Well As
humour, pointed out that the Unionist Party had been beaten, not upon their merits, but because they had been out- manoeuvred. The Lords had been goaded and jockeyed into......
The Text Of The Government's Bill Dealing With The Situa•
tion caused by the Osborne judgment was published on Thursday. The Bill enables trade unions to devote a portion of their funds to political purposes, provided that on a ballot......
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