THE LICENSING BILL
PASSES SEOOND READING.
United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright,
LONDON, May 5. In the House of Commons, Mr
Cave's Opposition amendment against the licensing Bill was rejected by a majority of 250.
The Licensing Bill -was read .ji second -time by 304 to 198, and was then cent to a Committee of the whole House.
Mt Asquith denied that the imposition of the time limit was canfiscaiory. He remarked that, supposing the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed an ascending scale of license duties, it could not be called confiscation.. Hβ was not proposing to take a monopoly value in that way, or step by stepj, but allowed fifteen years' notice to be given, including the year granted for the reassessment of licensed premises.
The majority who supported the Licensing Bill on its second reading consisted of 333 Liberals, 51 Labourites, 3 Nationalists, and 7 Unionists.
iMany Liberals openly express the hope <tha<t tho Hoi:se of Lords will reject the measure unless drastic amendmenits aro made in Committee.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13109, 7 May 1908, Page 7
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