SENATE STILL ON STRIKE.
THE FEDERAL CRISIS. (Received 10.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The Senite is still on strike. Senator McGregor (Leader of the Opposition) asked if the Government had done anything with regard to the no-eontidenee motion.
The Government representative said that he had nothing to add to his previous day's statement, except that nothing had been done in the Senate to cause tie* Government to swerve from the course decided upon. He warned the Senate that its action would lead to a crisis.
Senator McGregor moved the suspension of the standing orders and tlie adjournment of the H»use. Both motions were carried after further protests from Ministerialists against the blocking of business.
The Government is wailing Senate developments before takinjx action. Meantime, the bills restoring the postal voting and ending preference to unionists in the Public Service await the Senate's consideration. The faie of these bills, to which the bulk of Senatorial opposition is unfavourable, "ill probably involve a crisi;-.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 5
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