BRITISH POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 865, 11 July 1910, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS.

LABOUR OPPOSES TEE CIVIL LIST. THE NEW BUDGET DEFENDED. By Teloffraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. July 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 9. Tie Labour party'has decided to oppose the Civil List at every stage. Tho House of Commons has adopted the Budget income tax resolution. Mr.. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in defending tho Budget, made a graceful reference to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's birthday, which was received with oheers.

He appealed to the House to support old ago pensions for paupers.

The ratepayers, he said, should contribute to the Exchequer according to the amount by which they benefited.

' The Exchequer could not carry the whole million and a half without postponing the invalid and other insurance schemes. The Government would make endeavours in 1911 to readjust Imperial ami local taxation.

Replying to those who had assailed him in the press for protecting the cocoa trust, Air. Lloyd-George said the tax was not a new one. The Exchequer could not spa-re £60,000, and the impost did not benefit the manufacturer, because he was not getting the aid of a drawback.

Replying to criticism regarding the sinking, fund, which is now fixed at twenty-four and a half millions, the Chancellor claimed that this year's provision for the reduction of tho National Dcut exceeds by two millions the highest reduction made by any Unionist Government. LAW SOCIETY INDIGNANT. London, July 8. Th'e English Law Society has oenBurod the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd-George) for that portion of his Budget Speech wherein he declared that the lawyers consistently opposed reforms if the reforms meant lowered fees.