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Show Half of Lords Are Fossils. The Duke of Manchester, an hereditary heredi-tary member of the house of lords, who Is now visiting this country, says of the house of lords: "Three hundred members of the house of lords are fossils and could be dropped, and nobody would know the difference. They are neither useful nor ornamental. If they were compelled to run at elections they could never be elected. They are incompetent as public pub-lic officials. The useless ones come to the house of lords about once in four years to vote against some reform measure. They hamped progress." |