BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1129, 9 March 1910, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

GOVERNMENT HAS A NARROW ESCAPE.

BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE

BY BLECTBIO TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 8. Mr Ramsay Macdonald proposed a. motion in the Commons urging that a fair wages clause be instituted in agreements throughout the Government service. Mr C. E. Mallet admitted that the War Office sometimes paid below the trade union rates. The Unionists promised Mr Macdonald thei rsupport, and the defeat of the Government seemed imminent, but the Liberals talked out the motion. '1 he Daily Mail says it is evident that the country is paying £2000 dail~ in interest upon its own money, which the banks are lending the Government. f . The House of Lords have passed the Transvaal War Loan Redemption Bill. In the debate on the second reading of the temporary borrowing Bill, Lord Lansdowne said the Government asked the Lords as a special favour to pass the two Bills at a single sitting, yet would not stoop to ask power which would render the present bororwing unnecessary. (Received March. 9, 8.55 a.m.) London, March 8. During the debate in the House of Lords on the Temporary Borrowing iiill (which was passed)," Lord St. Aldwyn (better known as Sir Michael Hicks-Beach) declared that he did not desire the Government to introduce the Bill in both Houses, but that : .t should introduce a resolution in the J House of Commons authorising the* collection of taxes. Lord Loreburn. (Lord Chancellor) said that the Government did not agree- to the proposal to split the Jiudget, Mr Gladstone had settled that question years ago. The financial embrogho was solely due to action of the House of Lords