MAKING IT CLEAR..

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 5

MAKING IT CLEAR. .

LORDS AND COMMONS. MR. ASQUITH IN ANSWER TO CRITICISMS. I GOVERNMENT WILL NOT WASTE TIME. ■>Bj Telegraph. — Prcsi Astocittion.— Copyright (Received April 9, 10 a.m.) LONDON, Bth April. In the Home of Commons,, the Prime Minister, Mr. Afquitli, replying to <riticisms regarding the Government's intentions, made it clear that unless the House of Lords' decision on tho veto resolution wa* satisfactory, the Government did not intend to waste the time of the House of Commons in discussing •jx Bill. VETO RESOLUTIONS. FIRST CARRIED AMID UPROAR. GOVERNMENT~MAJORITY 102. LONDON, Bth April. In Committee of the House of Commons the first veto resolution (depriving the House of Lords of power to amend or reject a money Bill) was carried amid an excited uproar, the voting being : For the resolution 339 Against the- resolution ... 237 Government majority \O2 G. Cave, Unionist member for Kingston, moved an amendment in favour of a ioint session of the two House* in tne event of differences between them relating to Money Bills. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, declared that the amendment waa impossible, with the present disparity of parties in the Houw of Lords. It was true that tho two Australian Houses sat together in the event of differences over financial matters, but they were elected by the some constituent*. It was unfair to tay that his half-penny land tax was eonfiscalory. A similar tax in New Zealand ana New South Wales had the effect of taxing land out of existence, not because it transferred the land bodily to the State, but because it wai no longer worth the owners' while to hold up the land except for the purpose of using it. INCOME TAX. DISCUSSION IN HOUSE OF LORDS. WHAT HAS~BEEN LOST. LONDON, Bth April. In the House of Lords, Lord Avebury, banker and scientist, declared that the action of the Government in not passing a resolution authorising the collection of the income tax hud resulted in a lots of twenty millions in the revenue for the year ended 31st March. The interest on this loss war> £600,000, and an alarming fall in the -rational securities was the consequence. Lord Crcwe. Secretary for the Colonies, replied that the Government were responsible for the management of the taxpayers' money, and were also the guardians of the Constitution. A conflict hac 1 arisen between the two functions. ■•••■•••••••— "~——**—^-^-»