Reform

Premier Baldwin is now credited with having made a coup de maitre in recommending the elevation of ex-Premier H. H. Asquith to the peerage (TIME, Feb. 2) ; for it was the latter who, in 1911, succeeded in reducing "the noble lords" to their present innocuous position.

The House of Lords Reform is now a slogan of the Conservative Party and undoubtedly this important subject will find a place on the order paper during Mr. Baldwin's administration. With Lord Oxford and Asquith now in the upper House, it is to be presumed that he will exercise his tremendous influence, as leader of the Liberal Party, in deciding how the House of Lords is to be reformed; and by inference his efforts will be directed to giving it the real power of which he formerly divested it.