FEDERAL POLITICS
(PkESS ASSOCIATION. —COPIEIGHT.)
(Receivedll.ls a.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day. Thn Senate has passed " Bills authorising the issue of Treasurv Bills sanctioning mi £18.000,000 loan, raising and expending £2,000.C00 on the construction ■of a railway from Kalgoorlie to PortAugusta, and the War Pensions Bill. - iSfttator Pearce stated that 20,000 troops had been despatched at a cost < f £2,3.51.000 for tlie first year.
LEADER OK THE OPPOSITION
SUSPENDED
(Received 11.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day
During the debate on the Common wealth Bank Bill, an uproar occurred in the House o£ Representatives. The Speaker named Mr Cook. Leader of the Opposition, arid the whole of the Op positionists left the Chamber. Mr 'Cook was suspended mxtil he apologised. Ju the absence of the Opposition, Bills were rushed through.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 18 December 1914, Page 7
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