FEDERAL POLITICS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 91, 16 April 1908, Page 5

FEDERAL POLITICS.

MR DEAKIN HAS HIS WAY. [press association.] {Received April 16., 1.0.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 16. Mr Deakin, in making a statement in the House, asked that other business might stand aside to make way for the tariff. He thought that the first task incumbent on the House was to deal -with the tariff. The Government could not subordinate this question at present to any other, however important it might be; He proposed to proceed with the tariff nest Wednesday, and moved that other questions on the business-paper, including Mr Webster's motion regarding the Post Office Commission and the Capital Sites Bill, be postponed till the tariff had become law. A warm debate followed, during which Messrs G. H. Reid and Joseph Cook attacked Mr Deakin over Mr Webster's motion incident.

Mr Deakin replied that he was willing to accept a challenge from the Opposition at any time. The. motion to place the tariff at the head of the business-paper was carried, and the House adjourned till Wednseday.