'WHEN WE'RE READY'
"NOT A MOMENT BEFORE' 7 MR. COOK OF THE FEDERAL POLITICAL SITUATION SENATE PROCEDURE. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received September 1, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Cook, the Federal Prime Minister, in an interview, said : "We shall go to tho country when we are ready, not a moment before. I should like, if possible, to make some changes in the electoral law, and shall give Mr. Fisher (Leader of the Opposition) an opportunity of turning down these proposals or passing them as he chooses. Mr. Chirm, who waa employed as engineer on the transContinental railway, has been discharged, and his friends in the Senate have rushed to his rescue, and set the business of the country aside, while they have appointed a partisan committee of enquiry. The chairman has prejudiced the case by declaring before the enquiry opens that no more scandalous piece of persecution has ever taken place." Mr. Cook added: "The present position cannot, in the very nature of things, be a lasting one."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1913, Page 7
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171'WHEN WE'RE READY' Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1913, Page 7
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