RETORTS AND AMENITIES.

Dominion, 24 February 1913, Page 5

RETORTS AND AMENITIES.

' FEDERAL MINISTER'S, "DICTUM." B j Telegraph-Press 'ABsociatlon-Oopyrlfiht Melbourne, February. 22. Mr. Hughes, Federal Attorney-General, commenting on Mr. Barton's statement in Wellington 'that the-Federal labour party is 'disloyal; said: "Tho statement has not the advantage of being new, much' less. true. It is the sort : of. thing tliis kind of man might bo expected to say. It is midsummer madness." , 'J'ho Hon. A. H. Barlow (representative of. the Government in. the Legislative' Council of the Stato.of .Queensland, next to tho Premier in the Cabinet), was reported as saying:—"l tell you that tho Labour party is. a cut-tho-painter party. It makes no secret'of it. It is disloyal in heart to the Throne and to the British flag. ,It is 'out' for separation as soon 1 as sepiyMion is practicable, and [hen- —. V/fi)is&a I havo told you, we in Brisbane had a foretaste of tho terrorism and anarchy that Trill surely, follow the vaulting into- greater power by> tho Labour party." THOSE "POLITICAL" CANNIBALS." ' Melbourne, February 22. Tho Minister controlling immigration to Victoria ridicules the statement made by Mr. King O'Mnlley, Federal Minister for Homo Affairs, that the market is overcrowded through the Government's immigration pojicy. Ho says tho chief cause of unemployment is tho financial stringency in tho building and other trades. . . LABOUR'S "HERESY HUNT." Sydney, February 22. . The morning papers persistently assert that tension in tho Labour party over the "heresy hunt" is increasing, and that developments are portending.