On The Same Day The Commons Debated The Bill Which
is intended to reverse the effect of a recent deciiion of the courts, and to establish the right of the Press to attend the meetings of every local authority. An important......
The House Of Commons Has Spent The Middle Part Of
the week in galloping through the Committee stage of the Old- Age Pensions Bill. We are no friends of dilatory discussion, but we are bound to say that we never remember a worse......
On Friday Week In The House Of Commons There Was
a debate on the Report stage of the Bill to repeal the law which forbids tobacco-growing in Scotland. The Bill had passed the Standing Committee without amendment. Sir F.......
Timid Members Of The House Of Lords Will Perhaps Say
that the risk inherent in the course we recommend is too great. The Government's reply to the House of Lords, it is urged, would be an instant Dissolution, and an appeal to the......
It Is Not Worth While To Attempt To Summarise Day
by day anything so unsatisfactory as these truncated debates, but we should like to record our approval of Mr. Balfour's protest against setting up the Excise officer to......
We Note In The Westminster Gazette, And In The Writings
and speeches of other advocates of the Bill, a curiously illogical argument used to defend some of the patent injustices caused by exclusions under the Bill,—injustices to which......
The Bill Will Be Read A Third Time Next Thursday,
and will, we presume, immediately be sent to the Peers. We most earnestly trust that the Lords will do their duty by the Bill, and not be afraid of dealing with it on its......
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