FEDERAL PARLIAMENT
CONSTITUTION TINKERING. YIR DEAKIN’S TRENCHANT CRITICISM. “BILLETS FOR LABOR LEADERS.” Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, November 2. Mr Deakin, continuing the discussion on the second reading of the Constitution Act Amendment Bill, referred to monopolies and tho elau.se giving tho Government power to nationalise the .sources of production. He raid thatthotrnemotiveof tho framers of the Bill was to allow tho Federation to take ever various businesses, which was not work for a national Parliament. No doubt, however, it was intended to influence public officials, find to give fill the billots to members of labor leagues. THE: MO NOP LIES BILL. LAND TAX BILL. MELBOURNE, November 3. (Received November 5, at 10 a-m.) The Monopolies Bill was read a second time yesterday. Air Dsaldn intimated that he would not press his -amendments till the committee stage. In the Senate the Land Tax Bill passed through committee with small drafting amendments.
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Evening Star, Issue 14513, 3 November 1910, Page 6
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