STATES' CLAIMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 5

STATES' CLAIMS.

A SETTLEMENT. PAYMENT PER CAPITA AGREED ON. FIXED AT TWENTY-FIVE SHILLINGS. (Uy TcUgratJK.-I'teJJ AUticlatfoa-Oobjrtetall Melbourne, August 20. The State Premiers arid Mr. Doakin (Federal PriniO Minister) hav6 rtsached i agreement regarding the future finanoial arrangements of the Commonwealth and 1 States. * The arrangements will be ratified to- J inorrbW,,When.the Premiers meet again, un*- c less a hitch ocotirs over somd details still to be settled. t ' The new scheme will he put in foroe at ' once, the expiratidli of the fcemyear period of tlio Braddon Clause being anticipated by a year. This is for the purposo of giving the Federal Tredsufef eBOUgh Botrey f6r < the coming yfe&f without having to obtain a « loam i < . ' It Iβ further understood that the net* arrangement is to be in perpetuity, and that tho amendment of tbo constitution wliich 1 the change may necessitate will be submitted i to tlio eleotord in March next. . * THE RCSOLUfiOtte. < states Concede jegoo.ooo for old , AGE PENSIONS. , j SPECIAL TOEATMENT FOR WEST , AUSTRALIA. ( (Rttf. August ft). 10.45 p.ffl.) , JflfclbailFHe, AugU§b 50. The following er<s the resolutions pSßsed by thePiemlefs 1 ttohf §f enee i— 1 (1) That a coinplcte inVe'stigatiou be friade with regard to the dolisollddtiiig of thd I State debts and transferring -tliem td the CdinmOuwdaltiu (2) That ih ofdfir to glvfe ffeeilom b ' tho 1 ' eobitnonwrtdhh Government in Iferyhig .' 'fetisbliW and fexelse, the , Cdiritri&ln wealth Bhail, after July 1, l&lOj pay 1 hionthiy to the States a isuri 6alcU- < lated at the fate of Shit libgs per tthnuni p*ef hbad of population. . ' (3) Th&t ifl vito of die heivjr obtigdtiohs m= tiilM-od by the [jaynlehl; of old ago pen- ' Dibllßj the CdfnfllbHweaith ClevefflfflSht * ma3f during the current financial year retain from the ttineUht to be retllfiiid to the States a sUm not Bxeeediflg £Gt)O,COO. (4) Tllat all aWiual paytHeilt §hdultl bfi made ! ta Yfcst Anstialia of £2fe5,0e0!« lfllO .' ahd ioilj aft§f thftt yd&t tlib amount | td diminish at the fate of £16,000 ah' ' hunlly; half of this special amount to be deducted frdiii the sum paid by the Commonwealth to the other States. (