WELDING THE EMPIRE.
OUT OF SIXTY PARTS,
A GRAND CONCEPTION.
(Received 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 15 (delayed)
The "Tribune's" London correspondent learns that a bill is being drafted for submission to the British Parliament in September, providing for reorganisation of the Empire.
The plan woujd convert the sixty component parts of the Empire into one nation, with an Imperial Parliament, for the purpose of co-ordinat-ing the military and naval business functions of the different dominions. Each dominion would retain its own Parliament, and the Imperial Parliament would consist of a single Assembly, with a Ministry responsible to its membership. There would be 140 representatives in all from the United Kingdom, Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, in the proportion of one member for each half million white people.
The chief duties of the Imperial Parliament would be to settle disputes between the dominions, make all treaties with other Powers, and declare war. Other duties would be to control the Imperial army and navy, determine and be solely responsible for the Empire's policies regarding citizenship amd naturalisation, and to impose taxes on the basis of equal contributions by every citi zen.-—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 22 July 1919, Page 5
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