IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 14413, 8 July 1910, Page 6

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

THE CIVIL LIST.

PROVISION FOE THE ROYAL FAMILY.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, July 7.

It is understood that the Civil List Committee propose that King George shall not pay Income Tax, but shall defray the cost of State visits to foreign, monarclis. No provision is mado for the Duke of Cornwall (who receives a‘largo income from the Duchy), Tire other princes will each receive an . annuity of £IO,OOO, which, after they have reached their majority, will bo raised to £15,000. 'The Princess Victoria Alexandra, upon her marriage, will receive £6,C00.. ' . Mr G. N. Barnes (chairman of the Labor party) added a memorandum making a suggestion that tire revenues from the Decides of Lancaster and Cornwall should lie handed to the nation and treated as revenue for settling the civil list.

GREAT INCREASE IN EXPENDITURE

THE REASON WHY.

LONDON, July 7,

In the House of Commons during the Budget debate, Mr Asquith, in reply to a charge that the Government were responsible for the excessive expenditure, said that the growth of the civil expenditure was enormous, but it was unjust for any section of the House to denounce it unless tliat section was prepared to retrace the steje made in the direction of social reform. Similarly the granting of old age pensions was duo to demands from sill parts of the House. Despite the increase# burdens for Defence and Social Reform, be claimed that the present system of finance had proved itself capable of carrying the country to a safe haven.