VOTING "BLIND."
On several occasions daring the present session Sir Robert Stout) and others have drawn attention to the very unsatisfactory manner iv which the business of the House is too often transacted. Last night while highly important provisions in the Land and Income Tax Bill were being discussed* Mr T. Mackenzie complained repeatedly of the empty benches. There were, he eaid, only twenty-five members in the House, yet a short time-before sixty-nine had answered to the division bell. Members iif the House rationally discussed a question and then, the discussion over, the abaent members would troop in and the Premier would direct them to vote " aye." Mr Mackenzie's in* diguation finally led him to call for a division, aud as the forty-four members flocked in with the Premier eaoh was greeted with ironical applause by the House.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 8929, 20 October 1894, Page 7
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