PARLIAMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 24, 10 August 1889, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF BfiPBESENTATIVES. Thursday, August #« Th«r House met at 2,3 d., *'.-.■ -. Mr Hutchison, asked the Minister of Justice whether affidavits and other documents, in the case of Louis Chemw will be made public ; whether there ia any precedent for the ex parte argument addressed on behalf of Louis Chemis to his Excellency the Governor, reviewing the whole eas»; and whether /such a course is to be fol. in similar casese. in future. The Premier said it was not usual to make public any information such as waa referred, to. — Mr Hutchison moved the adjournment of the House. uuderstood that counsel for $he prisoner was refused leave to see the prisoner alone until he applied to his Excellency.— The Premier : • That is j absolutely inaccurate,— Mr Hutchison withdrew the remark, and put it that at any rate cpunjei had to make several appl ioajapus. . The whole proceedings were irregular.— The Premier raised a ipoinfco* order that Mr Hutchison was reflecting on the action of the Qovernor, he assuming that'^Mr^lellicoe went as council, -He £the .Premier) was nbt aware of that —The Speaker said. the. rule wjis ..that .,. the Governor's* mam~6 should not • bo -mentioned^ — Mr Hutchison submitted -.that the eiercise of the prerogative of mercy was not in this case a personal one since noImperial interests were involved. — The Premier submitted' that tjie.personal act of 'the Governor, in the exorcise of 'the prerogative of . mercy, should not be called into question. — Mr Balance said the Speaker might b<r assisted in coming to a decision on the question by part of the speech of the Governor when the petition was presented to him. — Sir George Grey submitted that any interference , by th» Crown with the Cotrrts of the Colonywas, a matter amenable to discussion,, as setting the laws of the Colony at defiance.— The Premier . admitted the importance of the position-, and its difficulty also. The Government asked Mr Jellicoe for a proof of hi* bona fides, and, being satisfied with, what Mr Jellicoe. laid before them, allowed the interview. Mr Jeiluoe* then asked. for an interview with th» Executive Council, which was refused on the ground that the Crown Solicitor would have equal right, and the Executive would become a sort of Court, Mr Jellicoe then asked permission to appear before bint, and his Excellency said. "Yes, Fll. see> you; I'll see Mrs Chemis and th» child and Mr Hawkings. He then sanr. the woman and the child, and heard what Mr Jellicoe had to say. la due course the Executive Council met, 'and the Judge was summoned. As to the appointment of a Committ* he thought such s body ehonld consider whether the procedure could beamended* and also— which was thelarger question whether some criminal Court of Appeal should not be set up to decide on these questions. — Mr Fisher held that the Government wer* quite justified in what they did, even if it did involve a little* irregularity r having in view the great importance of the case. No charge could, he thought, be made against the Government, who had doubtless acted in the interests of human justice. — Mr Hutchison asked the J^ouier whether he would lay the papers on the table; — The Premier said he would consider the matter. . "'„ '...'.' Friday, August 9. The Hon. Mr Hialop moved theadjournment of the House in order to> make a statement as to bis connection with the Ward-Christie case. He denied that he had interfered with .the interests .of justice in the matter; explaining that all he had done wa» at the suggestion of a deputation waiting on him at Oamaru, with a statement that: there ba4 been a mv* tale in the evidence. He denied that ha had instructed the Crown Prosecutor at Dunediu to contest the validity/ of the warrant of committal which was to tend Christie to gaol at Duue din, or that he used threats tbthfr Clerk of the Court; at Oamaru to induce him to refrain from carrying out the instruction: of the Judge in the> matter of altering the warrant.— A lengthy discussion followed, in which Messrs Ballance, Larnach, Fitzherbert, Hutchisoa, and Seddon urged the appointment «f a Committee of Inquiry.— Mr Fulton thought the House, and not a Committee, should deal with the matter.— Sir Harry: Atkinson moved, That the House at . its rising,, adjourn till Monday at 7.30 p.m. for Government business only.— Mr Larnach moved as a amendment, That the sitting be for the purpose of considering the appotriimeikt ©?' V : " Select Committee to investigate th» Ward-Hislop case.— Sir Harry Atkinson said be bad made an offer to the> leader of the Opposition to set apart ti' i: ' day for this purpose, and. hV looked on the amendment as distinctly traversingi the policy of tfce Government and should treat- the amendment as a. 7 ' . want-of - confidence in the Government^ \ and would npt, transaot any^bUsknesi ' till this was disposed ofc— Lost by ia !to 36.. . .......■-.-. •-■-.. .-.-•.• ■ > v v •■- ■-.. : \ Sir Harry Atkinson moved the sec- ; ond reading of the Property Asssss. 4 ment Act Amendment Bill without remark. —Mr Moss moved as an amendment, That the Property Tkx ifi unfair in its incidence, harassing; in its effei ts. and injurious tb the progress of the country.— Mr Seddon fi moved the adjournment of the debate. — Mr Atkinson expressed surprise that the amendment had been sprung on him after he had arranged w^ffi the leader of the Opposition tq^ brine" on the debate to-night— Mr Ballance said in all his experience he had v never known the Colonial Treasurer bring forward such an important Bill without a word of explanation —The debate was adjourned till the next sitting day. \ : " v

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