AN ATTACK FEDERAL EX-MINISTERS CHARGED
USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PARTY ' PURPOSES WARM REPUDIATION. , — ~— (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) ; (Received September 6, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. i In .the Federal House of Representatives, Mr. Palmer oharged Mr. Fisher I (ex-Premier) and other members of the late Ministry with drawing travelling expenses while conducting party political business. Ho declared that men in high places in the Government who used their power to put their hands in the ' public Treasury to enrich themselves were guilty of a worse offence than the man who put his hands into his master's till. Messrs. Tudor and Frazer (ex-Minister for Customs and Postmaster-General respectively) warmly repudiated the .-charge, and declared that Ministers had only drawn travelling expenses when on public business.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 59, 6 September 1913, Page 5
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126AN ATTACK FEDERAL EX-MINISTERS CHARGED Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 59, 6 September 1913, Page 5
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