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Show SfNGLISH LORDS WAKING UP AS CAMPAIGN DRAWS TO CLOSE LONDON. Jan. .".Two phases of the election struggle now claim attention ' llrst. disorderly interruptions to which many conservative meetings and almost all those addressed by peers, are subjected, sub-jected, so that It is practically impossible for any Unionist peer to get a fair hearing. hear-ing. -and, second, the realization by the poors themselves and ihe Unionist press of the necessity of the house of lords advocating ad-vocating Its own reform as the only means of meeting the .storm of protest to Its action in connection with the budget aroused. The reform of the house of lords has i been urged openly by the Times and other oth-er conservative organs and was tonight the most Interesting point of the speech of Read Lansdowne :it Liverpool. Tin- opposition leader in the house -of lords admitted that Hie bouse was loo unwieldy for an cffeclivo second chain-1 her. II'- believed in the preponderating: power of the house of commons, and suggested sug-gested a house of lords within the upper house, anil that this reform ought io be ihe work, not of one. but of both political poli-tical parties working together, lie objected ob-jected to the elevallve principle on the ground that an elective chamber would claim what the present house of lords did not claim, namely: Co-ordinate power pow-er with the commons. He supported the plan of- the Rcnoberry committee of two years ago.' which recommended that an "Inner" house he composed partly of I peers, whose antecedents and qualifications qualifica-tions justified their inclusion, partly of peer.'., elected by the peers themselves, and partlv of life peers appointed by the i crown on the recommendation of the government of the day. Alfred Austin, poet laureate, tonight issued, ay open" letter, in which ho points out thai Ihe present house of lords Includes In-cludes 2nd- members who served the country In the army and navy. a. hundred hun-dred of tliem- on ihe baitleilcld. One hundred and seventy bad been members of the house of eonnnona. and he declares de-clares it 1' impossible to call such a body , unrepresentative. |