AMENDING THE VETO BILL.
NO HOPE OF AGREEMENT. LONDON, June 29. In his speech in support of his amendment for the insertion of a new clause in the Parliament (Veto) Bill for appointing a joint committee of seven members of each House, of which the Speaker would be chairman, to decide what is a money bill and other doubtful points, Lord Cromer emphasised the necessity for an impartial tribunal to decide what a money bill was. Lord Haldane said that the proposed amendment would enable the committee to control Parliament. It was impossible to separate general policy from finance. Lord Loreburn held that the amendment would dethrone the House of Commons from Us hitherto unassailable authority in respect to questions of finance. Viscount St. Aldwyn suggested a committee consisting of the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker, and the chairmen of committees of the House of Lords and House of Commons, with a fifth person chosen by the other four.
Lord Morley declared that nothing would induce the Government to accept the committee. If the amendment were persisted in all possibility of an agreement would vanish. The amendment was carried by 183 votes to 44.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 154, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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