A KEEN FIGHT

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 January 1926, Page 5

A KEEN FIGHT

ABOLITION OF COUNCIL. THE J'EW APPOINTEES. WILL THEY VOTE FOR BTLL? BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Jan. 22, 10.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 22 ; The Abolition of the Legislative Council Bill lias aroused extraordinary pubic interest, and the precincts of the Rouse were thronged when the second .-ending of tilne Bill came on in the Clumber. Sir Joseph Carruthers challenged the Government’s right on a point of order to abolish the Chamber, and stated that, such action was constitutionaly wrong. He then asked, for a ruling' of tihe President of the Chamber. Tlu President ruled against Sir Joseph Carruthers, stating that although there may legally be some doubt, he would allow the debate bo continue. ‘Principal Interest now centres on whether the latest Labour appointees to the Council will honour their pledges and! vote for their own politieal extinction, or, as is generally nought will be the case, abstain from tiking any active part regarding tlie Measure now before the Chamber, and thus give themselves a fresh lease o political- life.

LABOUR MEMBER EXPELLED FROM PARTY RANKS. VOTED AGAINST ABOLITION. • Received Jan. 21, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 22. As instancing the dissension caused in tlie ranks of the .Labour Party by the Abolition of the Legislative Council Bil*. Mr Suttor, a Labour member who voted -against abolition, has luen >.'lled from the party automatically, the president of the Labour Party stating that Mr Suttor has shown that he thinks more of the Upper House than the Australian Labour Party, and all that remains is for the executive oi the party to meet and to confirm the expulsion.