§ MR. COGHILL (Stoke-upon-Trent)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the fact that, of the graduates of the University of Oxford who have taken the degree of Master of Arts, only a very small number are entitled to exercise the franchise; and whether he will introduce legislation to secure that all Masters of Arts shall be placed on the register of electors, so long as the University of Oxford returns two representatives to this House?
THE FIRST LORD OF TREASURY (Mr. BALFOUR, Manchester, E.)My answer to my honourable Friend, as he probably anticipates, is in the negative.