Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-04
House of Lords Has Been Standing
Against Reform.
LORD LANsDOwNE PRESENTS PLAN
Would Cut Second Chamber Member
ship in Half.
PART NOMINATED. PART ELECTED
Asserted In Favor Of View scheme IL
would Keep Trained and Able
Men in the Public Service
All the Time.
LAND SYSTEM MUST BE CHANGED
y PAUL LAMBETH.

Aside from the House OF Lords question.
the draining Of Scotlands population Is
causing more discussion than any other
subject.
Whether the emigration can be stopped.
and IL 80. how. is too big a question to
discuss here. But we may take IL that the
thing will only be done by giving a Scotch
man as much inducement to remain in his
own country as he now receives to transfer
his home to Canada and the only way in
which I should expect this to be done Is
by alterations in the land system. II is
worthy Of note in this connection that the
House OF Lords has been blocking land
legislation in Scotland for five years
Lansdovvne REFORM Bill.
The Lansdowne bill for the reform OF the
House of Lords sets up a second chamber.
smaller by half than the present house,
and representative Of the nation. OF the
s4S members. OF which the new house is
to be composed. Il is suggested that 20
shall be present as rejecting the political
opinion of the day; that Ia to say, 100 will
be nominated by the crown on the advice
OF the ministry and 40 will be elected for
districts by those numbers OF the House
Of Commons whose constituencies are
within the area The third group
consists of 100 to be elected by the existing
House OF Lords from such OF their own
number as have duly qualified by dis
tinguished service to the state. The form
of election is to be such that the minority
shall be fully represented.
would Keep Able Men.
In this way II will be possible to retain
in the House of Lords experienced adj
miniatratOrs. retired cabinet ministers,
colonial governors. heads OF government
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House Of Commons. Except for this group.
membership OF the House OF Lords is open
to everyone. The present anomaly OF
political representation. -cnrrected. and
there is an equal chance for both parties
in the new house. At present there been
no attempt at detailed criticism, and the
opinion is general that Lord Lansdowne
has devised a solution OF the reformed
second house problem But the radicals
do not want a reformed second chamber
in any practical sense Of the word; thar
those who do not frankly declare them
selves one chamber men aim az practically
the same object by a Parliament bill which.
IL passed as 1t stands, depr1ves the upper
house OF all Legislative powers.
Kings TaiIors on strike.
A strike of taiiors here has developed
the fact that nearly all the clothes for the
kings coronation are being made in sweat
shops. Unless employers and workmen
come to terms. the whole OF the high-class
clothing trade viii be disorganized and the
necessary preparations which are being
made for the coronation delayed. The
Society of Tailors and Tailoresses is ask
ing the employers to provide workshops for
the whole OF the employees before the ex-
piration OF two years. and that. in the
meantime. the employers shall pay work
men at the rate of Is in the pound on the
earnings but not less than Is per week
as compensation for the non-provision OF
accommodation. The masters are not in
elned TO fail in with the demand
Some startling sideIights the condi-
tons under which the garments OF the
aristocracy are produced were revealed by
James Blyth. secretary OF the Society Of
TAilors and Tailoresses AT the present
time clothing for the great majority OF the
west end shops is made in the homes OF
the workers or in rooms rented By them
in Soho. and disgusting is the environ
ment in many cases that the system is a
constant source OF danger TO those whose
garments are made in such surroundings
Coronation Cost.
The sum OF $4,000 has been set down in
the civil service estimates to cover the cost
OF the coronation. The costliest corona
ton on record in English history is that
OF King George "; $4,000 went on the
coronat!on robes and about $4,000 on the
crown The public grumbled. especially as
IL was excluded from the Abbey, George
III had been crowned at half the cost.
and william ". detesting pomp. had
everything connected with his coronation
reduced TO the lowest limits. and sue
oeeded in getting through the business for
aAO0a Probably the most expensive cor
onation that has ever taken place was that
OF the emperor Of Russia on which
u6OO0000 was expended. II is said that the
harness for the carriage horses taking part
in the procession involved an outlay Of
10000. and that one OF The singers en-
gaged commanded a Zee OF n6OO for six
songs.
Here is a story from darkest England.
from a section close by that where several
millions will be spent upon the GROWING
OF little man and his wife. This story
Of NE under the most wrstched conditions
was told az Clsrkenwen police court. where
Alfred Pank and his wife were charged
with nsglecting their six children An in
spsctor OF the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Children. said he went 20 a
washhouse IN Little Clarendon place. a
room eight feet by four feet. extremely
damp. with a tap continually running and
A chOked gully outside. The nOor was
strswn with cinders and the place ex-
tremsly dirty, There lived the prisoners
and their six children. who were all
bundled up together and all the Children
sick. A siri s years Of age had no clothes
ezcspS al old coat pinned round her. One
child had a scalded foot which bad been
neSieGted- The bedding was on tho floor.
They had AL been living in one room IN
another part OF the house. but had been
elected and had since lived in the wash
house The parents were held and the
chiIdrsa sent % institutions