BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1130, 10 March 1910, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

RAMSAY MACDONALD : S MOTION LOST.

THE INEVITABLE TAX. LORDS STARTING IN FOR RE- j FORM. i i BY ELECXBIU TELEGRAPH —COPYBIGHT. PEK PKE3B ASSOCIATION. London, March 9. \ The House ol' Commons concluded j the discussion oil. Mr Ramsay Macdonald's Fair Wages Bill motion, which was rejected by 215 votes to 150. Many Labour members voted against the motion, or abstained from voting, in order not to defeat the Government. The leaders of the imposition also abstained, out desiring that the- Government should resign as the result of a snap division. Replying to questions, Mr Lloyd George stated that the loss of revenue, duo to the rejection of the Budyet was iipproximately £28,500,000. It was impossible to say at present how much would ultimately be recovered. Lord Hugh Cecil, amidst Unionist cheers, asked what would have been saved if a temporary Bill containing the existing taxes had been passed before the dissolution and the income tax resolution agreed to immediately the new Parliament met the House Mr --. Burgoyne asked whetner the Admiralty had considered the Australian and New Zealand Dreadnoughts as part of the fleet for the purposes of war in metropolitan waters, and included them in the calculation of the two-Power standard. Tlio Hon. R. McKenna replied that he was unable to answer a hypothetical question depending upon what is the (strongest Power when the second of the two battleships is finished. One hundred Opposition Peers met the House of Lords and appointed a committee (with the Earl of Norfolk as chairman) to consider reform proposals and the- attitude to be adopted in regard to Lord Rosebery's motion, which is to be discussed on Monday. Tenders have been asked for Monday for five million six months Treasury bills. ' (Received March 10, 8.45 a.m.) London, March 9. Radical newspapers represent the Government 'as seeking, (to arrange with the Nationalists to secure the passing; of the Budget before the vneral election in the event of a disso--ation following upon the action of the .nonse of Lords over the veto resolutions. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr ijlov<l George is abandoning the new whisky duties in the next "Budget. The Daily Telegraph states that owing to the financial chaos, solicitors and trustees are at a loss to know the scale whereon estate legacy duties are payable. Consequently the final settlement of many valuable properties is impossible.