THE FEDERAL CONVENTION.
( Per Press Association. —G'pi/riifht. ) Sydney, Sept. 13. At the Federal Convention this afternoon a long discussion ensued on the method of electing Senators. The Hon. C. C. Kingston objected to the division of the States into electorates, because a senator from a division would only speak for his electorate and not for the State. The Hon. I. Isaacs recognised the danger that the larger centres in a State might override the smaller portions, and thought if the States were divided into three electorates the country districts would have more chance of fairer representation in the Senate. Tha committee ultimately amended the clause by adding the words " until Parliament otherwise provides." Thus the method of election provided by the bill stands for the present. This evening the sitting was mainly occupied in discussing the amendments of New South Wales and Victoria, providing that there should be one representative of the popular Chamber to every 30,000, but the proposal was rejected by nine votes. The hour was too late to go on with the finaucialc lauses, which come on tomorrow, after the committees' reports.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 425, 14 September 1897, Page 3
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185THE FEDERAL CONVENTION. Hastings Standard, Issue 425, 14 September 1897, Page 3
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