OPENING THE FLOOD GATES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11956, 8 August 1904, Page 4

OPENING THE FLOOD GATES.

Mr T. E. Taylor ©an never, after his action on Friday, talk about tbe House ws sting time. At tbe end of tha seeoad week of the debate on the Financial Btatesa*n* j_* had ihe hardihood to propca* tm> asaamdment to ihe resolulka, wteraby he fart every member in the House who bud ■!• ready spcsisn in ihe defcata, an ef-por-tonity of doing so again. This j* the sort of thing which on* find* it difikcalt'to fargive. Mr Taylor, w* know, it fond of talking, but wa should Jaw* thought that evea be waa beginning J&ty* al Hsf stream of spesoh nsakmg ia*aV ; aes goto*-en. almost without .infermlssiua amos ls*t Friday fortnight, Tbo Premier forbsre, probably becaasa b* was qeite certain of his majority, to make the amendment a "ao-cenfidence motion," aad aa tha 'member* mercifully abstained from jumping at th* chanc* offered them of ptokmging the debate for another weak or twp, th* matter fell fiat, and after it had been disposed of by a decisive decision, th* House dropped fart* Om aid jog-trot again. Hopes are now held eat that the Prettier will jvply oa Wsdaeaday, by which time asm* sixty or' mor* aasmbers will probably bay* spoken in tbe'debate. It could bay* been dosed easily a week after it began if Mr SeddwTeoakt hay* brought himsslf to apeak - lata ' it night, but b* chaise rather to put ap. a member of th* pasty, who delivered himself of aosM weighty argusasat* to * House that for seoa* tha* osntsinsd Jaat •ixassmbens. The waste of timeeoc_tx«wd by ism debate would b* less aeekrubt* if the remark* of moat of th* speakers war* ef any value. Bat th* nueabcr of men ja th* House couspetont to disoam toe finwcH of tha colony iateUifswtly is set barge, to •ay th* least of it, a_d moat of them ai* not on tho Osnitijyimi aid* ottW which baa bsan awapea_j_la)far c "great anaj mora than if* share ol.ifco debate! Urn east of th* members adatittedly talk, to "Hanaard,'' .aad their coasthaents, aad th* result, ia most cases, i* futii* i* tha ej-treme. In th* meantime, ft is to b* hoped that Minister* bare been, getting forward with their Work, an that when tha stream of talk dries up, tha House may be able to get quickly to baitBMut*