BUDGET V. TARIFF.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 656, 5 November 1909, Page 7

BUDGET V. TARIFF.

WAVERING LIBERALS. MR. cox Will vote for the bill. OTHERS AGAINST. (By Telcjraph.-Press Assoclation.-CopyrlehU i London, November 3. In tho debate on Jl'r. Austen Chanibcrlain's motion to reject the JFinauco Bill) Mr. IT. Cox (Liberal member for Preston, Free-trader, • and ante-land taxcr), who in previous debate? had strongly opposed the Goicrnnirnt proposals, " intimited that, much .is he disliked the land B taxes, he intended to vote for the Budget. Mr. P. Snowden, labour member for Blackburn, -rigorously supported the Budjet, be- ' eauio he said it began to apply in a small way E the principles held by Socialists. lie urged the Opposition not to talk nonsense about .-tariff Toform to the working class, whose intelligence they underrated. Mr. C. Ilobhoase, Secretory of tho Treasury, 1 defending tho Bill, declared that while tho r total amount of capital sent abroad was greater than during any preceding period, the <- percentogo sent abroad did not oxcoed that of ! twenty years ago. Mr. H. Bclloo (Liberal, South Salford) supported tho Budget on Free-trade.grounds. Hβ was convinced that the country would be unable to stand ■ the • complete topsy-turyoydom that would follow the imposition of a duty. on. foreign manufactures. Ho would prefer that the country should undertake a dangerous war with a great rival rather than venture on such an experiment. / DEFECTIONS. - (Rec. November 4, 11.15 p.m.) London, November 4. j Mr. J. Bertram (Liberal member for North ) Hertfordshire) announced that he would vote ] against tho Budget owing to the land taxes. , 'Mr. S. H. Whitbread (Liberal :member for ( Huntingdon) declared that he would not support tho Budget, owing to tho licensing clanscs. , THREE HUNDRED PEERS. \ DETERMINED TO VOTE AGAINST THE i BUDGET. London, .Novombor 3. ' Tho "Daily News" reports that three nun- ' died Peers have told the Marquis of Lansdowne, Unionist Leader in. the Upper House, that they will voto against ,the Budget. [This intimation by three hundred Peers to the Unionist Leader iccalls fho remark of Mr. Aeland, Financial Socrebry to the War Office, who not long ago made retereneo to the "wild men from tho woods' ,, —Peers "wild and uncontrollable, who cmergj froni their hidingplaces only on great occasions;" and who "regard laud taxes from eo narrow and selfish a standpoint that-even if Mr. Batfour and his people thought it best to lot the Finance Bill pass tho House of Lords—tbeso Peers would not bo willing to obey Lord'Lansdowne and pass tho Bill."] MR.'BALFO.UR. AND MR. URE. OPPOSITION LEADER REFUSES TO |,_ WITHDRAW. (Rcc. Novoraber 4, 11.15 p.m.) i Londen, November i. j The Budget dohato was resumed in the House tf Commons by the Lord Advocate for Seotland, Mr. Alox. Uro (whose recent expression 6i doubt as to whether the Unionists eentume to jay old age ptnsjons had been rrrmed by Mr. Bftlfour a "frigid and calculated lie"). Mr. Uro made an impassioned reply, to Mr. Balfour's strictures, and claimed that he had simply expressed doubt as to tho adequacy of a tariff system in the mattci of providing old ago pensions. Mr. Balfour, amid storny interruptions, maintained his ground. Ho declarod that Mr. TJro had fono farther r hb Emitted, inas,mnch as he had predicted that the result of the inadequacy of a tariff system would be the non-fulfilment of a national obligation. Mr. Afquith rogrcttcd that Mr. Balfour 'had not withdrawn his charges after Mr. Ure's convincing epeech.