TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 15 September 1909, Page 3

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

THE TRADE BOARD'S BILL. THE TAXATION DEBATE "* " ? (Received Sept 15, 830 a m •■•->-~ "LONDON. Tuesday The Trad© Board's Bill has passed through. Committee in the House of Lords. * In -be House of Commons the Government promised to consider Lo&d Salisbury's and Lord Milner's suggestions to safeguard employers' secret processes " Also ior employers' xepre •etjtatkin on the Board of Home Work era. in the case of trades wherein a coneiderable proportion of home workers war* Engage- 1 . Chios. 40 of the Taxation Bill, increased "death duties, wajj^rtrenuously opposed in the House of 'Commons, closured and carried . by. 198,t0,05 - , "'*-*". . £Mr''B_l-o_r emphasised the danger of taxing 'capital to meet annual fxpendi ture. ".The "Government maintained: that the prop-fells were fair and just, -and not unreasonable in comparison with the "re sources of the country : 'JJr Alexander Ure, M P , speaking at Warrington, said that the really re markable featnre abont the Budget was that the Chancellor for the first time an npunced that he wanted large sums to -•supply not merely passing needs, but ~th* permanent and ever growing needs ofVtne Government, asking vast sums to enable the Government to remove some ' deep-seated j ! evils which had giown around" a? complex industrial system 1 , Unionists' considered that this justified ' n_my complaints against the Budget,