Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1900 — Parliamentary Bodies. [ARTICLE]

Parliamentary Bodies.

Tlie Parliament of Great Britain is the largest representative body in the world. Iu the House of Commons there are (170 members, while there are 571 persons entitled to vote in the House of Lords. France, in its Corps Legislat if, has 300 Senators and 584 Deputies. Iu the German Senate there ars 58 members, but in the Reichstag 307. Iu Austria proper there are 120 members in the Upper House and 353 iu the Lower, while in Hungary there are 200 in the House of Magnates and 453 in the House of Representatives. Denmark has (10 in the Landstliing and 114 in the Folketliing. Italy has 307 in the Senate and 508 in the Chamber of Deputies. Japan lias 300 in the House of Peers and 300 in the House of Representatives; Netherlands 50 in the Upper and 100 in the Lower House. Sweden and Norway 'have 150 in the First Chamber and 230 in the Second; Switzerland, 44 in the State Council and 147 In the National Council. Canada has 213 in the House of Commons and 82 in the Senate.