BRITISH POLITICS.
{By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (PEE PBESb ASBUOIATION.) LONDON, March 9. In the Houee of Commons Mr Ramsay MacDonald'e Fair Wages to Government Servants Bill motion was rejected by 215 to 150. Many Labour members voted against the motion or abstained from voting in order to defeat tlie Government. A hundred Opposition Peers met in the House of Lords and appointed a committee, with the Earl of Norfolk as chairman, to consider the reform proposals, and the attitude to be adopted in regard to Lord Roeebery's motion, which will be discussed on Monday. Replying to questions, Mr Lloyd-George stated that the loss of revenue due to the rejection of the Budget was approximately £23,500,000. It was impossible to say at present how much would ultimately be recovered. Lord Hugh Cecil, amidst Unionist cheers, asked what would have been saved if a temporary Bill, containing existing taxes, had been passed before the dissolution and the income tax resolution agreed to immediately the new Parliament met
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9161, 10 March 1910, Page 3
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