El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-14
ENGLISH HOUSE Of
LORDS IS PASSING


/ lords" leaving their sons in posses
I sion Of their seats
Lord Rockefeller
Not that these lords are all bad
fellOws-it wouldn't do TO say that.
But suppose we had that system in
the United States We certainly would
have in the senate such men as duke
I Vincent of Astoria, duke Vanderbilt,
the earl Carnegie of PittSburg. Wis
count Cleveland formerly sir John
ROckefeuerl. Earl Budweiser of ST.
Louis baron richmond formerly sir
Thomas Eyauh and the marquis Could
We also might have the dukes Of
At Vernon and Monticello. although
there are no Gneal descendants Of
Washington or Jefferson We would
have viScOunt Lincoln of Chicago. and
earl Clay OF Kentucky There would
be a duke OF Massachusetts,. whose
family name would be Adams. and
perhaps q yiScoulC Butler from the
same state. Moreover. we would have
lord Edison, earl Roosevelt and lord
Burbank OF the present day, 20 say
nothing OF the marquis OF Platte.
formerly sir William Jennings Bryant
That would be our senate And when
they died their sons would be our SEN
ators.
Lords Are Passing.
T. is about passed over here. Not
that there is any particular objection
TO that sort of thing on its own ac-
count but il was all because the lords
always IN the interest of a certain
political party
Party names in Britain are not quite
as clear cut rs in the United States.
Tut for general purposes they may be
called Liberal and Conservative
Vow II happens that the house OF
lords is overwhelmingly Conservative
ln politics out OF $40 members only
1o7 are listed as Liberals. and some OF
them are now out Of harmony with
ilelr party More than 500 are con-
sisteutly Conservative
since 1881 when the reform act was
fully in effect and the Commons were
elected by the voters instead OF by
the lords influence, there have been
j. generil elections in the United
Kingdom At 10 Of these the Liberal
party has been victorious and at
the Conservatives have won. During
"a years the Liberals have had the
government for 45 and the Conserva- !
uTes for % years
Have Fought Liberals.
Whenever the Conservatives have I
been in power the house Of lords has
lapsed into quiesence. and has passed J
the bills coming up from the commons ]
practically without question But
whenever the Liberals have been in ]
power the lords have awakened into /
activity. have insisted upon the fun
or their legislative powers. and have
usually rejected or emasculated all /
ulilS emnnQNluE party promises They !
have insisted that the party in mower
should submit every new piece of leg
isiation TO the country in a general /
election
Naturally. that state or things has
not caused the Liberal party TO become I
anamoured Of the upper house. The
struggle for its reformation was Z
limited at nearly a century ago. was I
aEaln WHISPERED by such men as Glad I
stone and Bright. but was not actually
undertaken until Asqu-JE and LLOYD
George arrived on the stage
II IS proper 10 say that the house I
m lords. I'm addition TO being the up-
per house Of the British legislature. /
Is also its highest court I'm other Z
words. it stands in relation TO the I
British government not only as the
senate does 10 the United States gov
arnmcnr. but also as the sunreua I
curt I'm practice only few lords. /
allied law lords and appointed only
or life. sit I'm the sessions held for
JUDICIAL PURPOSES, as the highest court !
- the British nation. The apparent
.easou for appointing the law lords I
or life only. while other lords are I
ppointed with remainder to their
lclrs forever. is that the law lords are I
-ppoluted with especial reference to |
neir special qualifications for their