PROTECTIVE LAW

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 38, 13 August 1921, Page 6

PROTECTIVE LAW

SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES . BILL MR/ ASQUrPffS CRITICISM, (AUSTIUMA* = NSW ZM*LiKD CA»!.I AUOCIiriOH.) (Received, August 13, 1 p,m.) ...■

LONDON, 12th Avgiist, Onl' the motion for the third reading of the Saf©guarding of Industries, Bill, Mr, Asquith mov>«d the rejection of the Bin He found himself, he said, in a difficulty as to whether the measure was a serious fiscal proposal or a political freak. The Bill was, perhaps not intentionally, directed not against enemies but more against France than any other Power. \ . ■

Mr. Austen Chamberlain twitted Mr, Asquith with accepting the resolutions of the Paris Economic Conferences, drafted by Mr.. Runciman, as "a bit of bluff against Germany," Mr. Asquith in effect now said he had hoodwinked his colleagues over the resolutions,

■Mr", -Baldwin, in closing the debate, said the fact that a British Parliament had passed such a Bill should' he a warning to foreign countries tihat Britain was not going to juggle their currency .to the disadvantage of onr trade.

■„ The third reading was carried by 176 votes to 54,

The Speaker ruled that the Safeguarding""sf- tntfustries Bill is a y money Bill, tttns precluding the Bouse o! Lords from amending it (rejecting; . ■ f ,