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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL IST, 1924

THE SECOND CHAMBER.

A SCHEME OF REFORM.

Lord Hugh Cecil, in a recent contribu. tion to the Morning Post, sail the result of the General Election shouhl remind both Conservatives and moderate Liberal of the urgent need of restoring to our Constitution the steadying and preserving influence of an efficient Second Chamber, furnished with adequate constitutional powers and supported by public opizion

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Thenceforward lages could be gunsted: ngs only as heretofore by and with the consent of Lords and Commons, but also by and with the consent of the Commons alone. A distinction was drawn between Money Bills and ordinary Bills, by which Money Bills could be passed by the Com- mons in a single session, whereas Billa other than Money Billa must he passed three times by then in a period of not less than two years. So that now have two ways of pasting laws. One is by and, with the consent of Lords and Conmens, the other is by and with the consent of the Commons alone. We have not altogether departed from the old mlarval enterption that the community The unrestrained despotism of a major. condisted of different states. Noñinally ity of the House of Lemons elected we still require the consent of the first after the fashion which i familiar to two estites, the Lords Spiritual and Tem- those who go electioneering is something oral as well as of the Commons, but in which cannot be paralleled in any other exceptional circumstances, the Costmons political system derating in a great may, supersede the Lords Spiritual

revolution but in and Temporal, and the King in Parlia-1 normal and stable conditions. I confess ment way exercise the sovereign power of that it seems to me very drange that legi-hating and taxation without the con- Conservatives have viewed so apathetically set of the Lords,

in their firm exercise.

country.

DISASTROUS APATHY.

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the danger that is now drawing near, i This is the Constitution as it lands No one can tell what will be thề result | nów, Leg ny see how we might atend it... of the next General Electiou. And yet | Conservatives seem hardly to care to con-

Experiments have been made on this sider what might be done by, a hostiloj majority under the Parliament Act. The Run Northern Railway with what is tha alsolute control of finance in single cribed as new thermo-nere locative." ssion which the Parliament Act g Fausto Zaglatii. It is an ingenious utilis the invention of the Italian engineer to the House of Commons, leaves property ation of the combined theeney of hot exposed "to confiscation without any pos sibility of constitutional resistance. Yeted that the new system will mean'n redne-

compressed air and steam, and it is claim when one urges the question of applying ties of 10 per erit, in traction expepals. an efficient remedy, Conservatives appear] merely bored and evidently anxious to leave things alone. This is the sort of PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL. self-confidence and apathy that brings die. STEAM NAVIGATION CO. aster.

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It may be said that the apathy of Con- ervatives springs from a sense that the problem of providing an efficiens const tional check on the House of Commons cannot be solvad. "We know," 'Conser vatives ay ay. that the danger i grent: but afo know that many people of high ability have tried their utmost to put forward some satisfactory proposal for amending the Parijament Act and

DJEYPORE' restoring the efficient control of a Second Chamber, and have not succeeded in frant carrying His Majesty's Maile, will be despatch ing a scheme which seen acceptable. Weed from this port at Noos on THURS- would gladly

An effective remedy ap. DAT, the 3rd April, taking Cargo for the

above Parts. plied, but we have begun to despair of

Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France finding such a remedy."

and London (underarrangement) will be con. veyed by this Steamer proceeding to Bombay And there transhipped to the oa-carrying Steamer for Marseilles and London.

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The steaners are all fitted thunghont with Electric Light and have necummodation

for a limited antuber of saloon Passengers, All steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through rates to all ports in Netherlands India and Australis,

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1st Class Fare to Singapore-S$100.

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All lower berths. English cuisine.

Doctor carried. Wireless telegraph.

THE CHIEF DIFFICULTIES, quite true that the problem is a very difficult one and that many have tried in vain to propound a solution. All schemes for restoring the control of Second Chamber which have, hitherto been put forward are exposed to one of two wain objections, or sometimes to both those objections,

The first objection is that the dangers we have to fear from a revolutionary. House of Commons are row especially naucial. No plan, therefore, that does not protect the subject from the hasty or off bsire reatment of firnuce is worth having, because it fail to guard agains the chief-danger. Yet the long tradition of the British Constitution and the strong" wntiment of popular opinion alike make] it impossible to assign real powers of financial control to the existing House of Lords or to any Second Chamber which contained a large hereditary or even a pointed membership. Finance, according to our tradition, must be handled by the Commons, not by thee whose legislative authority is based on an hereditary title or on appointment by the Crown,

The second objection that schemes for establishing a reformed Second Chamber with adequate powers have to meet is that if you abolish the House of Lords and create an elected Chamber you part comp- pany with the hereditary principle, des troy the continuity of the Constitution, and isolate the Monarchy, leaving it a survival of heredity, a lonely and unstable. anarchronism: any, you deeply injure the historical prestige of the whole Constitu- tion, hitherto descending unbroken from the very dawn of our Bational history, and lower the fame of Parliament, and of the House of Commons itself:

Some cheques make shipwreck on the Brit of these rocks, some on the second, büne seem to be so nufortunate as to deg- troy the old character of the House of

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Constitution without setting up an elected Chamber andered with effective control over finance. It is the seuise of the ap pareatly insoluble difficulty of avoiding thege two objections that disheartens Conservative reformers and makes them relapse into apathy. But the apathy re mais inexen-able,

BASIS OF THE CONSTITUTION."

Let us begin the task of construction by recalling the principle of the Constitution as it was before the Parliament Act, Parliament originated in the Middle Ages as expressing the medieval theory that the community was divided, under the presidency of the King, into three Estates, The Clergy, the Nubility, and the Com- monalty. At a very early period the Lords Spiritual and Temporal became amalgamated, and the lower clergy drop- ped out of the Common, though the Archbishops are still enjoined to bring them to Parliament. Parliament thence forward consisted of two Houses, one re- presenting the Lords and the other tho Cominons.

In process of time, the Commons in gisted that all taxes and supplies wern their grant, and that the only function of the Lords was to consent to the law which carried out the grant that the Commons had made, The, Lords never in form admitted the claim of the Cpm- mons, but it came to be recognised and acted upon. In 1900 the Lords, after long disuse, asserted their constitutional right to reject a finance Bill, I have never been able to understand how that constitutional right could be denied by That anyone who has studied history. the assertion of the right was injudicious may well he maintained, but that it was constitutional sem to rac beyond dispute," It was, however, resisted, and in the end condemned by the electorate; and as a consequence of the two General Elections of 1910, the Parliament Act was intro- duced and ultimately passed.

Parcela will be received at the Offies until 5 p.m. the day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages are required.

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ONSIGNEES of Cargo from LONDON, MANCHESTER, ANTWERP &c., in connection with above Stoomer are hereby in- formedt hat their geode with the exception of Opiam, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the Go downs of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.

La Kowloon, whence delivery and be obtained may be immediately after landing.

Uptional Carge will be forwarded on unless atimation is received from the Consignees before NooN, TO-DAT, requesting it to be landed here.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned, Gools remaining noclaimed after the 2nd April, 1924, at Noor, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All claims must be sent in to me on or befors the 7th April, 1984, or they will not be recognized.

All damaged packages will be examined on Wednesday, the 2nd April, 1924. at 10 amily by Meuro. Goddard & Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

B. RODENFUSER,

Acting Agent Hengkony, 27th March, 1984.

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