UPROAR IN PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9186, Issue 9186, 9 April 1910, Page 5

UPROAR IN PARLIAMENT.

FIRST VETO RESOLUTION CARRIED. {Bs Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) LONDON, April 8. There was an excited unroar in the House of Commons when tne first veto resolution was carried, the voting being 339 to 237. Mr G. Cave moved an amendment in favour of a joint session in the event of differences between the two Houses relating to money Bills. Mr Lloyd-George declared that was impossible with the present disparity in the parties in the Lords. It was true that the Australian Houses sat together in ihe event of differences over financial matters, but they were elected by the same constituents. It was unfair to say that his halfpenny land tax was confiscatory. . A similar tax in New Zealand and New South Wales had the effect of taxing land out of existence, not because it transferred land bodily to the State, but because it was no longer worth the owners' while to hold on to land except for the purpose of using it. Conflict had arisen between the two functions. A LOSS OF TWENTY MILLIONS. LONDON, April 8. In the House of Lords, Lord Avebhry declared that the action of the Government in not passing a - resolution authorising the income tax had resulted in a loss to the country of twenty millions, whereon the interest would have been £800,000. He was alarmed at the fall in National securities, which was a direct consequence.

Lord Crowe replied that the Government was responsible for the management of the taxpayers' monev and also the guardians of the Constitution.

A LABOUR VIEW. THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS. Received April 9, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, April 8. During the debate on the veto resolution, Mr Keir Hardie, arguing that the Labour representatives were not favourablo to extravagance, incidentally remarked that the finances of South Australia had got into such a condition under Liberal and Tory administration that the Labour Party had been summoned to power to set them straight. Mr Asquith, replying to criticisms a 6 to the Government's intentions, made it clear that unless the decision of the House of Lords on the veto resolutions was satisfactory tho Government did not intend to waste the time of the House in discussing a Bill to give effect to them.