FEDERAL CONTENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10411, 4 September 1897, Page 4

FEDERAL CONTENTION.

In the Federal Convention yesterday Mr Barton (New South Wales) moved to reter the financial clauses of the Bill to a select, committee for consideration and report, the committee to consist of the Treasurers of the various colonies. Sir George Turner (Victoria) opposed on the ground that the committee as constituted would only be reviewing work they had already done at Adelaide. He preferred to see the subjects dealt with by the Convention as a whole. He suggested that the Convention should meet again in January or February, on the ground that the discussion of the finances would take so much time that it would be impossible for the Victorian delegates to remain till the conclusion of the woik.

„. Tbe fueling of the Convention was against £ir Tl | rner s suggestion to adjourn? Mr Barton thought it better to do what they could wmlo the Victorian delegates were with them and when the time came for the latter to leave it would be time enough to discuss the advisability of adjourning. It was decided to refer the financial clauses to a committee of Treasurers, with one additional member from each delegation. °

V T? n° n V cnfc into committee to consider the Bill and amendments suggested by the various Legislatures, hut as these amendments were not quite ready the Convention went into committee pro forma and adjourned till Monday.