CABINET REPRIEVED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 7

CABINET REPRIEVED.

LABOUR MOTION. ITS AUTHORS DID NOT REALLY MEAN IT. UNIONISTS ALSO WOULD AVOID A CRISIS. l)y Teleg.-apb-Press Assoclation-Oopyritsii (Rec. March 9, 11.15 p.m.) London, March 9. In the House of Commons discussion was continued on the motion moved by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Labour member for Leicester, urging that a fair wages clause be instituted throughout the Government service. Yesterday, when it looked as if Labour and the Unionists would join in' tho division, causing 'the defeat of tho Government, the Liberals avoided a division by talking the amendment out.- . . When the motion came to a division to-day it was rejected, the voting being.: Against the motion *.*. 215 For „ . „ ,_..„. 152 Majority against _ 63 Many' Labour members voted against the motion, or abstained from voting in order not to defeat the Government, while the mover, Mr. Macdonald, refused to toil ■in favour of his own motion. The Opposition front bench also abstained from voting, not desiring that the Government should resign as the result ofi snap division. NO BUDGET-SPLITTING. PEERS. AND FINANCIAL CHAOS. London, March 8. During the debate in the House of Lords on, the Temporary Borrowing Bill, Lord St. Aldwyn (Unionist) declared that ho did not desire the Government to introduce a Bill in both Houses, but it should introduce a resolution in the House of Commons authorising' the collection of faxes. Lord Loroburn (Lord Chancellor) said the Government did not agree to the proposal to split the Budget. The late Mr. Gladstone had settled- that question years ago. The financial imbroglio was solely due. to the House of Lords' action. The Bill was read a second'and a third •time, and passed. . , ' The "Daily Mail" says- that owing to increasing protests against tho Government not fulfilling its intention to regularise the collection of taxes, the Commissioners of Taxes in the city, who. collect one-fifth of the Kingdom's revenue, are considering. the advisability of suspending collections. The "Mail" suggests that a first reading of the Budget or a resolution would ease the tension. TWENTY-EIGHT MILLIONS DUE, A UNIONIST CRITIC- . (Rec. March 9, 10.45 p.m.) '

.; /■■ :;• London, March 9. Replying in the House of Commons itb questions, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated/that the'loss of revenue duo tor rejection of the Budget was approximately J!25,500,000. It.-'was impossible to eay at present how much would ultimately he recovered. .'.-.. '

Lord Hugh Cecil (Unionist member for Oxford , University) asked, amid Unionist cheers' what would have been saved if'a temporary Bill continuing the existing ■taxes had been passed boforo the'dissolution, .and .if the income tax resolutions had been agreed to immediately the new "Parliament met.. '■■'~'.■< : HOUSE OFLORDS' REFORM. LORD ROSEBERY'S FORCING OF THE : • : ! • ISSUE. ' ' ••■ (Bee. March 9, 10.45 p.m.) .. London, Marc?i. 9.;. A hundred Opposition Peers.met in,the House of Lords and appointed a committee (the Duke of Norfolk chairman)'to* consider proposals for the reform of the Lords, ■ and the attitude to. be adopted with, regard to Lord Bosebery's motion, whioh will be discussed on Monday. , [Lord Eosebery has given notice'to a6k the House of Lords .next Monday to re-, solve itself into a commiftec to consider reform of the existing organisation, with a view to 1 constituting itself a strong, efficient Second Chamber.] ■'. FREE-TRADE' NO LONGER SECURE. .. AN ADMISSION. ..* ; London, March 8. Mr. Alfred Mond, M.P., and treasurer of the Free-trade Union, has been interviewed. . Discussing the recent tariff divisions in the Houso of Commons, he declared that the position of. Free-trade as Britain's fiscal policy could no longer be regarded as secure.' If ■ "Free-traders had wisdom and courage they would put Freetrade first; then Free-trade would be absolutely safe. *•■■. ':..-"