Government Afraid To Face Electors
OPPOSITION JUBILATION Received Friday, 7.20 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 19. In the Commons Mr Walter Graham announced that tho Government had no other course but to accept the decision of the Houso of Lords regarding dyestuffs, otherwise tho Rent Restrictions Act, legislation affecting miners’ wages and other Acts of Parliament would bo lost. Moreover the Government's majority in the Commons yesterday was narrow. “There is a temptation to enter upon a discussion regarding the relations of tho two Houses, but we ourselves and the electorate outside will form our own judgments.” (Loud Ministerial cheers). Sir Cunliffc-Lister, replying, said the Opposition was only too anxious to test the feeling of tho electorate on the matter but ho understood that a general election in the near futuro had been described as “political suicide’’ from the standpoint of the Labour party. (Opposition cheers). A desultory discussion regarding the powers of the Lords followed wherein some Labour members accused Imperial Chemical Industries and kindred firms of corrupting political life. The Conservatives hotly denied the insinuation.
The Lords’ amendment was agreed to without division.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7412, 20 December 1930, Page 7
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