CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(n iiiEotbic TBLKonArn. — copnvionT,] — ♦ THE FISCAL QUESTION. m ■ DISCUSSION IN THE LORDS. DISSENT FROM THE CHAMBER. LAIN PROPAGANDA. IriIKSS ASSOCIATION,! (Received February 24, 7.37 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd Fobruary. In tlio Houso of Lords the Duke of Devonshire raised a debate on the fiscal question. The Duko declared that the recent corrwpondcncfl between Messrs. Bnlfour and Ohnmberlain shaved a great advance, and Unionists were entitled to know what had brought about the. agreement. Personally ho declined responsibility for the policy embodied in that correspondence. The Marquis of Lansdowne, cz-Foreign Secretary, said that our trade was losing ground both at homo and abroad, and out manufacturers wero transferring their works abroad. Tho Government must light for fair treatment, and if it was refused must give a respectful hearing to those colonies who it d cg j rcd 0 dmw closer to tho Mother Counry. Viscount Gotchon urged the cessation of the tariff reform propaganda, and appealed to the Government to examine Sir Henry Campbell-BannernWa allegation that twelve or thirteen million people woro on the verge of starvation. Then Ministers might enquire if ft change of tariff would improve tho condition of this vast multitude The Earl of GWe, Lord President of the Council, while hot flaying that nil was well, denied that the condition of trade was unsatisfactory.