HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2074, 31 July 1896, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

.July 28

Mr Montgomery moved, without notice. th»t he should be relieved from further attendance on the Banking Committee. He said that his mason for taking this course was that on Friday lant the Prpmier had used words to him in Committer which b« (Mr Montgomery) considered were offensive. The Premier was requested by the Chairman to withdraw the word», but lie refused to do ro. Under the circumstances be (Mr Montgomery) could not rettin bis self respect if he continued to sit on the Committee,

Mr MoNab thought that Mr Montgomery should inform the House what tbe words were which he refrered foi

Mr Montgomery said that the Premier had stated that he (Mr Montgomery) war the tnoft selfish and ungenerous man be (Mr Ser'don) had evpr met. Motion l.opt.by 37 to 26.

Afte* queatione, Cftntoin Rns«ell gave notice to n.ove on Friday—' That the ad. ministration of the Government has been unsatisfactory ; tbat. while they have professed to have abi-tained from borrowing the public d«ht has increased betwnpn Maroh 3M 1891. and Maroh 31st, 1896 by £4.928.581, that in seizing the sinking funds of the local bodies they have diverted tbe in'ention of the Loans to Local Bodies Act. and they hsve used for the purpose of revenue the capital sums especially provided by tha ratepayers for tbe purpose of paying their loans, Bnd are depleting the land transfer assurance funds for a similar purpose-that the alferßtion in tbe Customs and Esoise Duties Act, 1895, passed by the Government, hae imposed further taxation upon the people, and increased the charges upon the necessaries of life.'

Mr Seddon dec'ined to go on with any other business till the motion was disposed of. He moved tbat the House should adjourn till 2.30 next d»y, as he accepted Captain Russell's motion as a straight-out motion of want of confidence in ibe Government.

Agreed to,

JULT 29

Capt. Russell moved hie no-confidence motion.

The Premier, Dr. Newman. Sir B. Stout, Messrs Hogg, Maslin,' Morrison and Buchanan were toe other speaker*, Mr (i. W. Russell moving the adjournment. Mr Saunders has given .notice to move an amendment lo Captain Russell's moticn —'That the'.ftdmfmstrarioo of-the Seddon Government bus been unsatisfactory and their fiscal policy the reverse of tha policy distinctly adopted in the financial States ment of the Colonial Treasurer on the eve of last general election. As that po'icy was adopted on the hustings by a large majority.of the members-returned to tlns'i House, and almost unanimously endorse.!

by the electors of N.w Zealand no Government could be justified .in revising it without an apD«al to fc'ie constituencies of the colony. That notwitht-tinding the dis tinct profession of economy, prudence and pp|f-reliance which bid he.*n adopted by Mr Billancp, and which Mr Seddon bo distinctly pledged hiranelf to com in tie, and which waa strongly supported at the last general elections no economics have benn effected; tho cost of administration Inn been enlarged, costly nnd unnecessary officials have been multiplied, end tho national debt h*n been increased at a rate exceeding £1,375 000 a year, a rate which, in proportion to the population of the two cprintrieo, would axcoed an increase in Great Britain of £72 875 000 a year.'