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Show HOUSE OF LORDS , Prime Minister to Submit Proposal of Government for Second Chamber. LONDON, July 4. During the month of July tlio prime minister will lay before the houso of commons tho proposals pro-posals of the government for a constitution consti-tution of a new second chamber to tako the place of the house of lords. It is not expected that any attempt will be made this year to translate these proposals into law, but they aro being made in accordance with a promise in the king's speech at the opening of parliament that they would le submitted submit-ted for consideration during the present pres-ent session. "While the scheme is not yet complete com-plete it is known that the hereditary principle, which even many Unionists oppose, will be largely or entirely eliminated, elim-inated, and that tho other churches of the kingdom will be given similar representation to that now enjoyed by the established church of England. ; What the Liberal party, except those opposed to any second chamber at all, aims at is to secure that tho new second chamber shall, to a large extent, ex-tent, be in union with the house of commons. In order to obtain this it is probable that every freshly elected house of commons will have the right to nominate a certain proportion, perhaps per-haps one-third of the second chamber. Thus if a house of commons is Liberal, so will be the other branch of the legislature, leg-islature, and if, on the other hand, it should be Conservative, it will be able to constitute the second chamber in harmony with its own views. As tfie house of commons is becoming becom-ing more and more a house of groups, it would follow that the various groups would have representatives in the boc-ond boc-ond chamber, and England may yet live to see Laborites, Socialists and even Irish Nationalists seated on the benches now sacred to peers of the realm. If this plan were adopted it would be a question whether it would be necessary nec-essary to continue those provisions of the parliament act, -which prohibit the upper house from vetoing house of commons bills more than twice. However, this is one of the tremendous tremen-dous tasks which the Liberal party has undertaken and to carry which it must overcome not only the opposition of the Unionist party, the church and the present peers, but that groat body of English conservatism which will brook no change in established things and customs. |