'HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] .
SIR,—While the people of England are considering t` the reform of the House of Lords " may a friendly foreigner. suggest that, whatever the basis for the selection of the Lords adopted; there seems to be no really sound reason why the two classes of legislators should sit separately, except in the few cases where their functions are entirely different? Other- wise, all the advantages that may be ascribed to the-bicameral system would be preserved in the combination of the two classes, who would act separately (while sitting together) only upon the final passage of a Bill. Many of the advantages of the true unicameral system would at the same time be thus secured.—I am, Sir, &c., JAMES D. BARNETT. ' The Law School,. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
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