The Archive · 1910

THE GOVERNMENT'S REFORM SCHEME

London vid Bombay, March 22.

The House of Lords' Veto Resolutions have been laid on the table of the House of Commons.

Resolution I declares that it is expedient that the House of Lords should be disabled by law from rejecting or amending Money Bills. The Speaker is to decide whether there has been any tacking.

Resolution LI provides that Bills if passed in three successive sessions by the House of Commons shall become law without the consent of the House of Lords, on receiving the Royal Assent.

Resolution III limits the duration of Parliament to five years.—Reuter.

March 23.

The Government's Resolutions dealing with the veto of the House of Lords are the absorbing topic. Hosts of amendments are already announced.

'The Liberals are now' confident of the ce-operation of the Irish Party.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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