Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-04

| out OF buhihess Altogether For
Number of Years = BoIin Ebraks
| Way with the Noble Lords.
many persons that the British house q
lords is supreme ana can do pretty wei
what 1t pleases This, however, is
mistake. On several notable occasion
their noble lordshlps have been para
lyZed and have got very much tn
worst Of it in stormy arguments witt
the gentlemen OF the house OF com
mIhs.
The first occasion on which this han
pehed was when the peers ventured t.
differ with the long parliament, whicl
WIS at the time engaged in life and
dfath struggle with Charles l. Tn,
cfnmons on this occasion wasted nc
valuable time in talking, but promptly
abolished the lords altogether and
tf'ned thcm. archbishops. dukes, belt.
et earls and all the rest of the gor.
gious coroneted crowd, into the street
HE gilded chamber was vacant.
For half II dozen years or SO the
c}lntry got on without any house of
llrds.
All the checks the house of lords
Il We received have not been of such II
Elastic nature us this. Of course.
lFnrious ministries, finding that the
ls.fs were unwilling to pass their pro-
lpsed bills, have resorted to the threat
y create enough new peers to swami
tte house OF lords. These new peers
IN
beforehand to vote for the ministry
chatting them.
III the prime minister of the
df, tie during ana INSCRIPTIONS Wis.
cont s3olinSbroke was anxious to ter
mhati the desolating and ruinous war
WI s'rance. which had been raging
oHant OF for twenty years.
10 fleet this purpose he had drawn
uHth treaty of Utrecht. 1t was neces-
say It that time that lords and COM
mqis should agree to II treaty before
II EcIld become valid. The commons
asfned to the treaty, but the lords
dedlacd TINT they would have none
OF itnnd that the war must 90 on
MheruDon BolIngbroke coolly but
hItnt informed them that, rather than
SCI tmself detied by them, he would
crlat Il whole army Of new peers to !
rte1or the treaty.
~ story goes that he had. regl-
mhtof the Life guards paraded under |
I'll windows of the house OF lords and
shfaened to make every trooper into
q ole lord IL driven to 1t. He did |
maze twelve new peers, and then the
loIsgave In.
Liberal government Of 1882, with
Eaf Trey as prime minister, used the
snileEhreat. They wished to pass the |
frs fform bill. The lords hated this
bllEhterly.
I1N then tIt-c- -L->.1-L----- prev u. any
nm ofHlthy, with all the real power
In theifNnds. The franchise had been
30 limitt that only rich men, and gen.
orally or the nominee of some great
noblema could get into parliament.
The rerm bill altered that. 1t gave
the smuir men Il chance. The lords
espresso their deliberate Intention of (
wreckinthe bill
Earl qy retorted by extotting from I K
King Villain IN.-who didft like re-
form bE. but dared not oppose the
wish ofhe nation for fear bf a reyo-
lution-tmission to call % to the Z
house cords as many new peers as
should necessary to carryhis bill.
The ME threat was enough for the I;
lords. ,ty had no wish tosee their z
order ME cheap and rlditIlous. as II
would he been the case lad peeru Z.
become plentiful as blackfrries.
1t use(o be the custom Il the Brit. /.
ish armfor all officers Commissions
to be puiased That is, anbfficcr. In -
stead ogettlng into the army by q
means Il competitive elimination H
and riss by merit cam straight Il
from scAl, without KNOWN anything n
of the 1t duties he was atut to us.
sumo. q had commissih bought
for himhfter that, instead of being
promotes reward for hi services
he used buy each promot!s. III
IL he ID no money his canoes Of q
being pnoted were about Thousand II
to one. The result was thu officers Va
who hafown gray In the svice and -
fought many battles remlned sub
ordinate II their lives, Will the sons
OF weali families who hainot seen I
a quart9f their service juped over I
their heS by having theiEyuy pur. K
chased ifor them to be c9nels and Z
generals h
Mr.. qstone decided tdlo away \
with thburcliase system. the lords 4
did not sh 1t to be abolied. Con 2
sequentiwhen Mr.. Gladsne intro y
duced a to abolish purcke In the 3
army tlhouse Of lords W not dis
posed t9'e 1t kind recepn. -
They Nv out the bill arlimagiped
that theiad won gloris victory.
But Mriadstone found hit oueen III
Yictoriad the power to blisb MIR. EY
chase ilie army by her,yn nor ~