The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-22
Lecturer nwells on Weaknesses nf Eng. fish Legislative Body-Trouhics
 Women Have There,

eral outline of the membership in the
 British parliament
 Men of no special ability are sent
 to the house of lords In England lone church is elevated above all oth-
 CTS, aud Its chief officers are entitled
 to seats in tho house of lords
 'Ir the house pr commons sounds a
 positive note on any subject tho house
 of lords does not dare to interfere.
 When the people passed the old age
 pension bill there was no one in the
 house of commons wao voted against
 It. The house of lords made a feeble
 attempt to amend it but commons
 wouldn't take the amendment and tho bill was passed,
 Come with mo in imagination to
 spend the day In the house of com
 mons This is quite interesting, moro
 go than in the house of lords where
 the debates are dull and dead, In the
 latter they are polite, except at the beginning, There is no chairman and
 they all talk together untl tho one
 with the loudcst blustcr gains the
 floor. Tn the house of commons the
 speaker points out the man who Is to
 speak
 The female scX is now barred from
 tao house of commons since 100000
 of us marched there to prove we
 wanted to vote. If the chief of police
 secs two young ladies going towards
 the house he whistles and there are
 la,OO0 police there to bar the way.
 This actually happened when ten la
 dies tried to reach the house recently
 "Gentlcmen with bags approaching
 the house have to open them to prove
 they are not anarchists
 "l regret that 1 cannot go to par
 lament any more as never missed a sitting there being more fathful ii attendance than the members When wc wanted to scc the mcm' bcrs on "Womau's Suffrage we nevel put that on tic cards as our bushes! as they wouldn't discuss it but pu "Tca" They came to tea with us ant then We talked suffrage.
 There arc always crowds of lobby ists about The members of parlia mcnt thoroughly dctcst this. Whcr the post cards on the vote of a re cent question came in, the lobby wa flooded with them and the postoiiicl had 10 double its force.
 "Nl this is an indication that tn { pcople'are getting interested in poll s ties.
 Thc inner lobby is reserved fo { present and former members of par lament and favored newspaper re { portcrs, Women can only pas through there with their escorts. The house of commons s only in sizo of schoolroom, only seats fo $50 out of the G7O members being pro ,idcd. In these, only a small part Q ' the total ever appear at one meeting The small number of seats would seen 4 to be inviting mon to neglect their du ty, but they seem glad of the chances There is q reporters gallery whcr the press take down every word tha 2 is uttered, however inanc. The gallery for men holds abou 900 and there is a gallery for mem hers who are tired of listening to th speakers The women are in the gal lery near the ceiling that secms nor like a tigers cage. There are bar. H said to have bnou placed there SO tha < the ladies could not throw posios [ q thcr favorites.
 The first movement in sufrrazisr 1 came in 1t2S, so it is not as moder II q thing as might ho supposed, Thel 4 number of ladies demanded tha the duke of Gloucester ransom hi k wife, prisoner in France and force H him to do It.
 N The ladies were refused admissio V to the house in l100 and came I A force to demand admission, gainns a hy strategy They then broke mp th al proceedings by audible comments an N other actions.
 B "ln 1750 que member of parliamcr A couldn't find seat because of ll N number of ladies present and he order g ed the house cleared of strangers A look ten hours to get the women out. T For DO years there vera ue ladie Al admitted to the house Then the adie s gallery was built and the grill naan M they arc technically outside of tn house
 S The house of commons Is opened b H beautiful prayer and all parade il N All come to this not from choice but 3 get a seat S "The liberals, standing for progrcs arc on the right, the conservatives. tr tthugs as they are on tho left, and fl N new labor party and the lighting Irish M men who put everything under tho su N after Ireland and who have won mol M for Ireland by their methods and tal I u,s than have the others for Scatan @ and r,ngland'
 N She spollc of tho various leaders an @ tholr attitudes on woman suffrage, Sh A satd they had tried to convince Frin N Minister Asauith that they wanted { 3 vote. The leader of tho opposition NJ M Ralfour, had q sister, Lady France N Baltour, who worked and marched wit a the lecturer i'm tho suffrage moveman M She spoke ot various peruliaritIes , B members One always spoke agains M vaccination when ho got the floor Tn R speaker alw1yg staid to hear the men M ber but no others The most import M ant speeches were not listened to, bl E if inc cry "Liar" or "Withdraw" wel H raised ull thr members ru4hed in Eo