IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1036, 8 June 1894, Page 6

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Mr Justin M'Carthy has received an assurance from the Government that the Evicted Tenants Bill will be pressed on this session, no matter what other measures are sacrificed. The Government by a majority of 17 carried -a motion securing the whole of the time for the remainder of the session. There was a long debate on the Death Duties Bill. Sir R. Webster, Mr J. Goschen, Sir J. Lubbock, and Mr A. J. Balfour vainly opposed the colonies being included in the provisions of the measure. The Chancellor of the Exchequer insisted that it was just to apply duties to colonial property, as the colonies taxed British goods. In the House of Commons Sir E, Grey, Political Secretary to the Foreign department, said it had been decided to proclaim a protectorate over Uganda proper, and a commissioner would be appointed to administer affairs there. A sub-commission would be selected to administer the country from Lake Victoria to the coast. It had been decided not to construct a railway in the latter-mentioned country. In the House of Commons Sir U. J. Kay-Shuttleworth, Secretary to the Admiralty, declared that relief crews for her Majesty's ships Ouracoa, Lizard and Rapid would be sent out this year. In the course of a debate in the House of Lords Lord Rosebery said he preferred the construction of a telegraph line to Uganda to building a railway to that country. He' was in favor of proceeding warily, and was convinced that the strengthening of the navy is more important than a hundred Ugandas. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated in the House of Commons that he intended to deduct the death duty paid on colonial estates before levying the estate duty. Clause 2of the bill only included property, outside of Great Britain, if liable to legacy and succession duty. Sir C, Dilke denounced the struggle of European Powers for supremacy in Africa as insane. He alleged it was the promotion of civil war all over the country, and was leading to an appalling loss of life. In the House of Commons on Tuesday the Death Duties Bill was com* mitted. Clause 1, embodying the principle of a general estate duty, was carried by a majority of 42 votes. Sir W. V. Harcourt denied that the bill would impose any tax upon the colonies and said everybody would be treated alike, Sir John Lubbock raises the colonial issues regarding the bill later on. Mr Balfour said the Government by their action were making it impossible for British subjects to invest their money abroad or for foreign subjects to invest in England.