MODERN CIVILISATION.
Perry and Japan.
LORDS REFORM,
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Coalition Patchwork.
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ed the recommendations of the BryceCommitee, which suggested the establishment of financial Committee of the two Houses--the In a public lectura given last
Second House, and a vary different mooth at the University of Man-
It was not a confident hand assembly from the Lansdowne chester an "Modern Civilisation that framed the House of Lords House, it will be remembered- What Europe has given and what reform resolutions, as if the with an outside chairman to it has received" Dr. W. R. original band were confident its decide whether Bills are financial. Shepherd (Professor of History work has since been weakened The resolutions propose sach a at Columbia University, New by careful erasures. The weak Committee with the Speaker a York) said that Europe is nowess is revealed by want of detail chairman, which would seem to only a portion of the European and other evidences of incom-give it a permanent bias towards world. East and West have affected each other so consider plateness. If a workable measure the House of Commons' point of of reform is hammered out in the view. The Bryce Committee sug- ably that quite new culture is ensuing discussions it will be the gested bow and when the Com- being evolved by each. This
work of the peers themselves, and mittes should act, but the resala theme ProfessorShepherd worked
not of the Government, which tions are silent on these points. out with torrentofdetail.general-
has but loosely strung together a isation and humour, sometimes
means disjointed, often challenging, but few proposals by no always stimulating; and so much original, writes the Times political
correspodent. to his audience's taste that when heasked it for a few extra micates it applauded reply.
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The setting up of a joint com- mittee of any sort will have strong opposition in the Commoss. There will also be opposition to It is another piece of Coalition the final proposal that a Bill after- vigorously in patch work. It will certainly ing the constitution of the Second not gratify the Conservatives, Chamber, after the adoption of the Until the appearance of the who want the unfettered testor present proposals.should not have European there was no cosmo-ation of the House of Lords the benefit of the provisions of thei politan spirit in Asia, he said. bej veto. It has already excited the Parliament Act, which would per- cause there was no altruism. He toars of Coalition Liberals, and mit of its becoming law in the did not believe that East and West it is, as regards the suggested lifetime of one Parliament,
The resolutions are would ever produce a single method of determining what Bills universal civilisation; but each are money Bills, open to the result of the consideration given would continue to learn more and suspicion of House of Commons to the subject by the Govern more from the other. It was men of all parties, who maintainment during many months. They through Japan that Western ideas that the Commons control of tell eloquently of the failure of filtered into China. It was wrong finance must not be impaired in Ministers to reach agreement. to say that Commodore Petry, oil any degree. That view is held The Cabinet Coramittee presided the U.S.A. Navy, had let Europe in spite of the subdued but over by the Lord Chancellor into Japan. He had let Japan earnest criticism which followed ceased from its labour because of out. She was now a factor in the Speaker's decision that the hopeless divisions of opinion and European civilisation.
Safeguarding of Industries Bill the agreement in theCabinet is on "It was interesting to notice how was & money Bill as defined by nothing more than these shadowy he geographical peculiarities of Clause 2 of the Parliament Act. proposals which will stir neither The home lands had altered the! The genesis of the present pro-enthusiasm nor actire opposition attitude of colonising nations. posals is, of course, in the Parlia-till they came to be made more The Spaniards, coming from a ment Act of 1911, the sonorous substantial by the filling in of land of rugged mountains and preamble to which declared the the details.
unnavigable rivers, had feared intention of Mr. Asquith's
nothing they encountered.. The Government "to substitute for
had swept across America to the the House of Lords as it at
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of Human Race. had founded colonies in swamp:| fairg the powers of the the French, with memories of new Second Chamber." In the Members of the British Bud- the Rbone and the Loire before same year Lord Lansdowne intro thist Mission to Tibet left London The themi, had followed the gresduced a House of Lords' Re-for Calcutta last month. Jakes and rivers. If colonisation eanstitution Bill, which received mission expects to be absent from were justly defined as vast second reading in the Lords. England at least a year. system of outdoor rel.ef for the bat went no "further. In 1917
Dr. William Montgomery Me upper classer, the upper Mr. Lloyd George appointed the
Govern, the eminent Oriental classes bad sought natural Bryce Conference, which pro-scholar and traveller, who
has frech try Liban Grey ly for conditions abroad as similar duced &.0 elaborate report.
Dark Gre gone with the mission as inter- as possible to those they already suggesting more complicated preter and general adviser, said constituting that the raission was one of good educated those who undertook populer Becood House, and will to Buddhists. Its members 1. He considered that the for settling differences between
boped to be.received favourably. English, through their contact the two flauses. The Revolations; with such different peoples, now before the country are based had learnt adaptability and tact.in the main upon the Lansdowne, be an enormous addition to the They raight with profit Bill. apd to a smaller extent on world's knowledge. Much of the study the influence their colonies the Bryce recommendations. had had on them. He would like!
knew
bome.
Colonising machinery for
to sugest that india had helped!
on
the
THREE ELEMENTS.
It
If they were the result should
workin Tibet would be anthropo logical, and should throw new Ight on the origin, of the human
73! "It will be part of my special
industrial revolution. The Government resolutionsraca.
monastic libraries of The Withour capital no industrial contemplate a Second Chamber,! progress can be made, and the composed of three elements-a Tibet," said Dr. McGovern, are Indian money brought home by hereditary element. an elected rich in books and manuscripts the great nabobs of the 18th.jelement. a nominated element. hitherto knowa to scholars of the
person of the Blood outside world only by repute. century may have in this instance Only provided the necessary capital. Royal would wit by purely
PRECIOUS DOCUMENTS. bereditary
right. "MRS, PAT" IN TROUSERS.proposed that the bishops sholl)
retain their seats and the La lords theirs. Hereditary peers would elect an, as yet unspecified The story of ber first appear-member of their own order. ance in trousers on the London The resolutions do not indicate We shall endeavour to bring stage is told by Mrs. Patrick any preference as retween the back a complete knowledge of Campbell in the final instalment direct method of choosing the Tibet and its people, and to bring of her memoirs in the Queen. elected members. Neither is the
the Tibetans themselves into It was in Philip Moeller's plas, number of the elected mambers closer relations with the rest of "George Sand," the: she appeared indicated, nor the number of the the world." thus attired, and her reception nominated members The balance
Historically True, But "No Pretty."
was a mixed one.
of the three elements is, therefor.
*Some people laughed at my undetermined. This part of the trousers: Nome would not believe Goverment plan-if so mach the cigar smoked were real." vagueness deserves to be called a! Mr. Rudolf Bester WAS so plan-closely follows the Lans-
affected by the sight of her that downe sebeme which proposed!] ho was rooved to write thus:- that the Second Chamber should My dear Mr. Campbell,—I am be constituted of peers of the so sorry I was rude about your Blood Royal, the Law lords, one trousers, but quite sincerely they hundred elected hereditary peers, wounded me. If only they had į 120 elected persons, one hundred been pretty trousers-but they persons appointed by the Crown, were not. They may be his-the two Archbishops, and five torically correct. But ia a play elected Bishops. In those days which outrages history in 39 the right of the Bishops to sit in) many vital points, to outrage it the House of Lords was vigoroUS- further in the stuff and, cos of ly challenged and Lord Lans-i "George Sand's trousers would downe made a considerable con have offended nobody, and plena-cession to the feeling of the time. ed one person at least.
The Government resolutions Affectionately yours, Rudolf provide for House consist- ing approximately of 350 Mr. Bernard Shaw enjoyed the members. The Lansdowne House would have been a little.
Besier.
play. He wrote:
I went on Thursday night. smaller. The membership of the
I thought the British public House of Lords to-day is about]
absurdly illiterate and stupid.seven hundred. ́*
After the second act I felt
Lord Lansdowne proposed the inclined to come before the cur indirect election of elected mem- tain and explain to them that the Coliseum was across the road and bers of the Second Chamber by an electoral college consisting of the they had come into the wrong members of the House of Com house. If they think that Alfred de Musset's part must be sacred mons grouped in areas. music, at least Grock will make Bryce Committee also approved of the method of indirect election,
it clear that they are meant to
laugh at bim. Pigs!
What induced you to imitate Oscar Wilde? It was an inspira tion, and amazingly like the
The
but on a more "comprehensive
scale.
CONTROL OF FINANCE. The remaining proposals in the original... Your lovely perfor-resolutions bare reference to the mance is too good to be tbrown limitation of the veto made by the sway; it is a repertory part Parliament Act, which was not Why can you not act as in-
on the Statute-book when the elligently as that for me, devil Lansdowne Bill was introduced.
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