FINANCE BILL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 7

FINANCE BILL.

NO OVERTURES; NO COMPROMISE. SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL , "KEYSTONE OF THE COXSTITUTIONiL FABRIC." ■;■■.'■• in, T«I«r»DV •»•'«" *»«Ml»lion.-Oop»rlel«i.l (Eec. October 10, 5.5 p.m.) ■ ; London, October 9. . Speaking at a banquet to Lord Loreburn, given hy the National ■ Liberal Club, Mr. Winston Churchill (President, of- tho Board of Trade) said it would be a constitutional outrage if the House of Lords rejected the Finince Bill. It was difficult to believe that responsible statesmen .would plunge the'- country's finances into largely irremediable confusion.. Moreover, the Opposition leaders were. n6t anxious to fight a decisive battle upon an unfavourable issue. The control of the finance by the re. presentative Assembly is the keystone of'the constitutional fabric. After 600 hours' discussion the Budget- would, he said, leave the House of Commons in its full form. He added: "Wt fear no conflict; we shall make no overturesj. we shall accept no com-. promise. '. . • , ,' : . Lord Loreburn declared, that the pres«nt Parliament had run over two-thirds of its statutory life., If tho country disapproved of the tases; they could be. repealed. . , ' "I cannot," he said, "believe the Conserve tive leaders would take stops Reading to a most grave conflict; and placing the business of the country in a st&to of disaster." He repudiated the allegation. that the Liberals' aims were Socialistic, and snid the only really novel tax was the Land Tax, 'A SELF-DENIAL WEEK SUGGESTED. ..'•'■ -•■ . - London, October 8. Mr., A. Dewar, Solicitor-General for Scotland, speaking at Maidstone, suggested . that *he landlords should have ono self-denial week a year,-which would enable them to pay-the increased taxation imposed by the Budget tenfold. . '.-.■'■ . ' ' .

A LIBERAL SIEMBER'S VIEWS. .~- ,-. : ■■■■ ■■'•■:■ London, Ootober 8, ; Mr. E.-AVBidsdalo, Liberal member for Brighton, announces that ho will not seek reelection, bclioving that the. Budget, proposals are' unsound,. and will act disastrously on the .country's business. , . .< '. . ■-■/'.•:..'- ; SPEECH BY ! MR. LLOYD-GEOnGE. : ■' ALL OUNONE... . . , . "THE ONLY SLUMP HAS BEEN IN' ..;.;' dxjkes." .■■ . v ■■■~•.■■' v ■■■•';'. (Ree. October 11, 1.5 a.m.): ■•... ', ■•■-.■■: '..'■!'•■' . London, October MO.. .An "audience of 4000 people assembled in tha Palace , Theatre■■ at.Newcastle to hear an 1 iddress by Mr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer). , r."' .. '.': .' ; v An! (Slaborato ' barricade was erected around the.hall-to keep the Suffragettes from the Entrances. .■ The audience consisted'entirely of .men, nevertheless there wert several, intornp. tions and .ah ejection 'took place during tho early, part of the epeeoh. ■■ ,-.,■■.:- .

Mr. Lloyd-Qeqrge, who had ft.great recoption,\ ! said.that the Budget had; emerged' fi-oni forty days and , nights in !tho'.wilderness mu.ch strehjithened and improved. '.'. ". v •'-. "We haye done our 'best," he eaid, "to neet hard cases, and the Bill-is now practically in the form in which it is going' to. become 'iw, j The only classes, who detest, it aro ths; fdbdtaxers,.who know, the Budget .'will put an .ndii to their ; desires, and the landlords, who chiefly object to- State valuation.iivhich will put a perfectly impartial valuation> upOh ; tho , land and form a standard for.the future buyer. The (Jovcrnm'eut is.going. to hava'all the Ws ->r none. ; If- the. Budget. , ;is :an: attack m industr'y ifis'strarigo-'tHat -trade "ij-improv-ing nnd .industries- are beginning ; ' to ; make profits.■ v ■ ■■• :: - ,:■:'■• ■ .■.•/ :. . ■

'"Che only slump has.been in duke's. '(Laughter.) - A fully-equipped duke coks as much< to maintain as a conplo .of. Dreadnoughts. ■. He is as great a terror and'lasts longer. The Budget 6imply knocked a littlo gilt off tho ducal stiea coach." , • , ."-.-.■ "i' - .-•■■■'■ b °