IMPERIAL POLITICS.
THE BUDGET.
PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 17
Ex-Ministers receiving political pensions and ecclesiastical commissioners will be excluded from the payment of members scheme. Many Liberals favour the payment being withheld from Army officers and others with pensions, and desire legislation to prevent hopeless candidatures, and to prohibit a member handing his salary to charities in the member’s own constituency. Many Liberals and Labourites prefer £3OO as the annual payment, but the Nationalist leaders do not desire the salaries to he extended to the Irish members lest it should diminish the former’s control. A few Unionists do not follow Mr Austen Chamberlain, believing that payment of salaries will facilitate work-ing-class Unionist Commoners.
INCOME TAX. (Received Mav 19, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 18. The income tax resolutions have been passed.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15620, 19 May 1911, Page 7
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136IMPERIAL POLITICS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15620, 19 May 1911, Page 7
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