IMPERIAL POLITICS.
THE LONDON ELECTORATE BILL. PASSED ITS SECOND READING. United Press Association—Copyright. (Received June 6, 4 p.m.) LONDON, June 5. In the House of Commons, the Bill i>S. introduced by the Right Hon. Lewis V, Harcourt -(First! Com'missioner of Works) to constitute I/ondon a single Parliamentary borough and abolish plural voting, was read a second time by 140 to 46. Sir Henry Lumber (Conservative member for Wandsworth), the Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (Liberal Unionist member for St. George’s) and other members combatted the Bill because it was not accompanied by a scheme providing for the redistribution of seats, and because it sought to establish one man ono vote exclusively for London, which represented one-eighth of the electorate of the whole country. Mr. Harcourt replied that the Bill removed anomalies, and that Londoners’ grievances were remediable without their having to await a large measure of reform. - The Government hoped to pass the Bill before the dissolution.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2521, 7 June 1909, Page 5
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156IMPERIAL POLITICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2521, 7 June 1909, Page 5
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