THE IMPERIAL BUDGET.
CARRIED BY 170. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July iB. In the debate on the Budget Bill Mr Chamberlain ridicul.d Sir W. V. Harcourt's pessimism over the financial prospects of the late Republics. Already, he said, the Orange River Colony showed a surplus. Sir M. Hicks-Beach stated that the coal tax concessions,; amounting to three-quar-ters of a million, would be provided for out of loan funds. He had still £19,000,000 in hand. During thirteen months of the war £45,000,000 had been provided out of taxation. The Bill was read a third time by a majority of 170.
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Evening Star, Issue 11605, 19 July 1901, Page 6
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99THE IMPERIAL BUDGET. Evening Star, Issue 11605, 19 July 1901, Page 6
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