The Grey River Argus and Blackball News. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9th 1905.

Grey River Argus, 9 October 1905, Page 2

The Grey River Argus and Blackball News. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9th 1905.

The patriots in the House are cvi» dently growing impatienb and are anxious that the business of the session should be concluded as speedily as possible. Naturally they do not wish the patriots outside the House to huve too big a start lest; perchance of some of themselves it may D 6 recorded when the result of the elections are detailed, that they ' ■"■ also started". On Friday last the. preliminary dis* cussion, which usnally precedes the massacre of tho innocents, eventuated and soa.e indication wae given by the Premier of the bills on the order paper the passing of which the Government consider essential. The lisb is somewhat formidable when it is remembers ed that it is proposed to prorogue on the 20th inst. . For it must be borne in mind that in addition to the bills detailed by Mr Seddon there is still to be considered the Public Works est> mates and the Supplementary estimates. The public works votes alone are likely to create much discussion. The debate on the Pnblic Works statement and that on the Loan Bill are to be amalgamated by which means it) is hoped that saving of time will be effected, The Premier is e\idently determined that the constituencies will have an opportunity of gauging the amount of work done by Parliament j by the negative process of putting before the electors the details of the work unfinished at the close of the session and threatens that there willbe no clearance of the order paper and no immolation of legislative innocents. We fancy that this terrible threat will hardly be successful in curbing the loquacity of some members, who, deprived of the opportunity of electioneering outside the House, will take advantage of every occasion thato ofters to do so in the House. The Bills mentioned by the Premier as being of such importance tbat they should be passed, includo many lhat all true 'democrats would wL"h to see on the Staiuteßoik. Ihs Teachers' Superannuation Bill is certainly one that Parliament should pass before it prorogues. Such a scheme as this Bill provides has been dangled before the eyes of the State school teachers for several years and the further postponement of the measure would C6r* tainly lead to the alienation of much sapporb if sot to the intensification of the latent dissatisfaction existing with regard to the Government's action in the matter. Ib should, however, be recognised that the scheme has not suffered by the delay as the proposals of the present bill are likely to give greater satisfaction than those of. the previous -bill. Tha Referendum Bill is another measure that an effort should be made to place on the Statute Book although, judging by its treat* ment in " another place " on previous occasion?, the likelihood of it becoming law if not promising. There is little doubb that if the proposed measure were law,- ib would remove from the political arena a number of questions that can be only satisfactorily settled by a vote of, the people, . The other bills mentioned by Mr Seddon are all fairly importaut. In the interests of local government finance the Timber and Flax Royalties Bill should become | law and is the mining industry is to develope as ib ought to, the Mining Acts Amendment 811 shculd not be one of the slaughtered ianccents. Taking the most optimistic view possible, however, we fail to sen how the House is to deal wiih all these important matters in the mb- rval between the present and the 20th insb., and we are inclined to the belief that the House will not prorogue much before the end of the presenb month. The Premier and the L-ader of the Opposition profess to be willing to remain till December 2nd >in order to finish the necessary business but the majority of members do not feel so confident of being returned and are likely to bring pressure to bear on the powers that be to bring the business to a conclusioa long before the date mentioned.