THE FISCAL QUESTION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12027, 31 October 1904, Page 7

THE FISCAL QUESTION.

THE CONSERVATIVES' -ATTITUDE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October 30tli, 5.16 (p.m.) LONDON, October 29. Fourteen hundred delegates who attend- . . ed th« Conference of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Aeaodatione at Southampton, adopted with three dieeentiente Mr Chaplin's resolution declaring that the time had arrived for a. , revision of the fiscal policy, supporting Mr Balfour in, his «kirn for power to deal ■with the evil* of unfair competition, and approving of the proposed Colonial Conference. • ■ . -.■ .■>-,. An amendment by the Frecfoodera to . restrict the resolution to Mr Balfour's fie- ' cal policy m unfolded at Edinburgh, only found .thirteen supporter*. Mr Chaplin admitted that he • favoured ■the move, advanced view, bat it -warn,desirable to promote tho unity of the reexdution, and he wo* satisfied that-his section of tbje Conference was evidently averse to 'fiscal discussion. ■ Mr Balfour merely'remarked tihat if his writings and speeches were.read without determination to read into them what was not there, they would not be found to be either obscure,' difficult, or inconsistent.