House of Peers

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Prominent members of the Diet and the House of Peers said privately that the government must fall.

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"Ambassador Forbes is a worthy compeer of George Washington," declared Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers.

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Since 1903 he has been President of the House of Peers, but that is relatively unimportant.

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There, from his gold-and-maroon throne in the House of Peers, he addressed a joint session of the legislature.

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But the marriage law laid down by the ministry with permission of civil marriage was rejected by the House of Peers, and the hated school regulations had to be undertaken by the minister himself.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.