The Fiscal Problem.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Per Presa Association.)
MRLBOURNE, October 25. The Hou&e resumed the debate on the Budget. Mr Isaacs moved a reduction in the first item in order to discuss the action of the Government in. appointing a Royal Commission to investigate the Tariff question. He recognised the Government would accept it as a want of confidence motion, but that was the only way the Opposition could get the matter discussed. Mr Reid's contention that the appointment of business men would exclude a partisan element was incorrect. What business men were there, he asked, in Australia who had not far greater interest in the tariff than members of Parliament? To appoint business men to investigate the tariff was to shirk a duty they, as members of Parliament, were elected to do.
Mr Beid said his desire was to make the commission a national one, and to free it from party issues. He was willing to adopt a suggestion that it consist of one member from each side of the House and two outsiders. The debate is proceeding.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 794, 26 October 1904, Page 2
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