LIBERAL GENEROSITY.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 7

LIBERAL GENEROSITY.

The generosity of the. Liberal Party towards" the Prime Minister in allowing the Estimates to coins "'on yesterday aSteraooa without' opposition wa» pointed

out by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr X, M, Wilford). When it was moved that the House go, into Committee of Supply, Mr. Wilford referred to the offer he made in the early hours \jf last "Saturday morning—namely, that if the Prime Minister would adjourn then, no member of the 1 Liberal Party would mov c an amendJ ment if the Prime Minister moved to go] iiito the Estimates " on any day next week." Estimates had been consideredi on Wcdehsday, and what he wan&sd to 1 know was whether the Trime Minister! was taking advantage of him in goimr iiito Estimates again in (he belief that: no amendment would be moved. The' offer he had made on Saturday morning! made no reference to two days " I n ; view of .what has been said about us,; I would like the Prime Minister to ad-i mit," said Mr. Wilford, '-'that we are' doihg 100 per cent, better than w e have' offered. " )

From a strictly legal sense, the 'Prime^ Minister was ready to a'dmxt that Mr.i Wilford was right, and he would noti quibble isver it. 'He felt he could trUst! to the generosity of the ISouße in aik-i mg that Estimates be again considered! that day. ' i Sir. WilforcL- " We think it is tip 'foi you to .admit that it was something:" I Mr. Massey made the desired a dmis- ] sum. ;j . j