Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-06

presence Is ignored in their speeches :.
All he has to do to earn his big salary
Is to sit tight ON the "Woolsacx," as his
scarlet seat Is called, wear u huge
horse-halr Wig that falls down over
has shoulders and a long and gorgeous
robe which an attendant prevents from
getting tangled up with his legs when
he walks about IN H.
But the peers set along we'll enough
In their easy. go-as-you-please ia sl,foD.
Nearly all being he same way OF think
ing, their discussions are never live
ly- The fact that out of member
ship 81 eco the average attendance Is
on ~, affords fair measure OF their
- .ative zeal In the 1905 session
Tl.n the Conservatives were running
things and the peers were simply say
ing ditto to all they did there were
LIS noble and right honorable lords
who did not take the trouble 10 attend
a singl9 session Of their exalted order
Bat that would not prevent them from
denouncng as something worse than
highway robbery any proposal to de-
prlve them OF the legislative functions
which they never discharged.
The threat 10 ''mend them
has led some OF the bolder spirits
among the lords TO suggest various
methods by which that might be
accomplished or course, they
would greatly prefer that any uuaVolu'
able patching OF their antiquated sSs-
tenn should he done by themselves
Lard Newton. who as Tom Leigh was
a. popular member of the house OF COL
mons berore the death of his fataef
transferred him to the gilded CHAMBER
has drafted a blll for that purpose its
main feature consists In the Application
of the elective principle TO the peers
IL is proposed that they should eiecl d
certain number OF their order 10 tePre-
sent them I'm the house OF lords as me
Scotch and Irish peers DO, anu ei." ~ =
lInlted number OF life pears chosen be-
cause OF mer brains and not their bnl-
lin7, shnrld he admitted TO share thelt
eyal,ed privileges But this PLAZA woula
aim rive an overwhelming prepoader-
anco OF Influence to the absurd herea-
Itary principle a house thus cot,sll-
tuted would stlll continue to be lop-
sided house, with the CONSERVATIVES az
ways ia a big majority II wou,u uDll-
t,n,,e M re1nrll and reject Liberal legis-
Iation while letting Conscrva i've tllei,-
s,res slide through on CREASED rollers
PIRATE PEERS.
AS means OF overcoming ihelr nat
ural repugnance TO committing ans
thing In the nature of political hRra~
kari themselves. scheme which 10
widely advocated is tlle creation OF sew
cral hundred new lDrds-n species OF
pirate peers, pledged To gag OK throttle
fine old crew and scuttle their ancient
bulk But the hereditary nobility inter-
pose all sorts of difficulties 10 this de-
llclous plan. Besides. human nature
baue wonderfully human u ~ dpubtiul
lr the pirate peers. even Vi they soi III
aR Nfe members, would stay pirates
long after feeling the coroneta on thelr
broNs and experiencing the comforts OF
the velvet cushioned seats
Another measure-ald II y huppoHeu
that sin Henry Campbe ll-Bannerm0n
intendg 10 prcss something of the SORT
N one which VIII limit their veto power
Ia one session Of parliament LOrd
CuE2On has denounced thiH az olliy as
-sassluation IN disguise ana the lords
may b. counted on Ia tlght TO the last
ditch against the imposition OF any
such restriction on ihcir power TO MAKE
tholr "no' effective against the people
Whatever measure the govern lhent
puts forward Il NH be a 'mendlng' and
net IN ending measure. The fight
Ia "A dnish rs not llkeiy 10 COME on foi
a good many years. The Liberals are
moe going 10 dissolve parliament ana
10 the country ON The house or
lords question yet awhile II Is lhetr
policy 10 irst carry through tho house
OF commons seYerat suCleI reform NlFH-
sures which will severely test the cour-
age Of she peora either 10 accept or re-
lect them
TIE LAND QUESTION
# IS not unlikely that a VIII be ultI-
mately over the laud question that tho
critical struggle Nit come That ques'
tioil--the biggest OF an questions thai
c0nfronts English statesnnan--can nev-
en- he settled while lhe lords are IN
vested With their present powers OF
stopping legislation, fhe land Is their
spcfial heritage. For centuries the
Hand laws Of England have been made
by The lords for sbe Lords, Thelr GOO
members own one-thlrd of tho Whole
or H. Each peer Possesses on un aver
age $500 acres. England alone among
clNllzei states ptssenls the melancholy
spectacle " landless peasaniry and
a wlhered ana blishted agriculture,