BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1169, 27 April 1910, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE VETO AND THE BUDGET.

MR 0' BRIEN , S AMENDMENT

NEGATIVED

CHEERS AND CRITICISM

BLACK BREAD AND OF^AL."

(BY ELECTRIC TET/EGHAPH—COPYMGET.) FEE PEEBS &SSOOIATIOM. London, April 26. The sniallness of the Government's majority when by 204 to 182 they carried a motion to suspend the 10 o'clock rule in favour of the Development Act Amendment Bill was the signal for loud Opposition cheers. Mr O'Brien's amendment to reject the Budget was negatived- by 328 to 242. The amendment of the numbers was received by the Opposition with cheers. The Budget was then read a second tame by the same majority. Mr Austen Chamberlain characterised the Government's finances as conhscatory and menacing. ■ Ho emphasised the lowness of Consols, which were yesterday £80 15s. He mentioned that on the recent issue of Exchequer bonds the lists closed early because the applications were few and- were being withdrawn. Had the lists remained open the required money would not have been obtained. Arguing that the Government's taxation was vindicated, he mentioned that a well-conducted brewery was taxed an additional £40,000 under Mr LloydGeorge's Budget, or £12,000 more than was distributed to ' ordinary shareholders. Mr O'Brien cited the report of the Commission on financial relations to prove that Ireland was seriously overtaxed. Mr Redmond's surrender was an act of apostasy, and he got nothing in return. Mr Balfour denounced the Budget as dealing arbitrarily and unequally with persons of equal wealth The Government's Veto Bill, called the Parliament Bill, is expected to be available to-morrow. Mr Balfour, speaking at a Tariff' lterorm luncheon to working-men visitors to Germany, and referring to Mr Lloyd-George's allusion to "black bread and offal," said it was discreditable to public life to bespatter the of a, friendly country with the mud of our preposterous controversies. Britain had much to learn from Germany, especially in regard to social reform. Mr Balfour incidentally declared himself a strono tariff reformer. ". (Received April 27, 9 a.m.) ' London, April 26. The Hon. H. L. Samuel has announced that the license duties which were usually levied in October would be spread over several months.