Salt Lake Herald | 1891-03-04 | Page 1 | Reform of the English Electoral Law

Reform of the English Electoral Law LONDON March 3Ia the commons today to-day Stansflcld member for Halifax moved several amendments to the electoral law the most important of which is that no person shall vote in more than one electoral area The present system he said originated orig-inated when the franchise was deemed a class privilege and not a citizens right As the law now stood a man could vote in every county and every borough where beheld held a house in other words the man having hav-ing the most means would have a right to return more members than one with smaller moans Haworth submitted an amendment to the effect that any alteration in the law was inexnedient unless providing that different parts of Great Britain and Ireland be represented rep-resented in proportion to population Ireland Ire-land he said s now grossly over represented repre-sented Gladstone favored Stansfields motion but it was rejected 291 to 180 the Irish members being absent