HOUSE OF COMMONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 December 1929, Page 5

HOUSE OF COMMONS

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCI! BILL AMENDMENTS DEFEATED (United Press AHHociation-By Electrio Tolograph—Copy right) LONDON, 4th December. Miss Bondlield said (he Committee on the Unemployed Insurance Rill regretted it could not, accept the amendment to pay the wives, of unemployed ten shillings instead of nine shillings per week. It would cost, ;C>J25.000. Mr WheatUy said lie believed Miss Houdfield was personally opposed to the 1 amendment. .Miss Bondfield moved the closure, which was carried by 293 to 168. The amendment was defeated by 229 to 28. Mr Baldwin and 50 Conservatives and 20 Liberals did not vote. An amendment to increase the allowance of unemploycds' children from two shilling to live shillings, which would cost £4,500,000, ami affect 600,000 children, was defeated by 210 to 37, many Liberals, the Conservatives and dozens of Labour members abstaining from voting. REPLIES TO QUESTIONS LONDON, 4th December. In the House of Commons Mi' Graham, answering a question, said he would con. sider any practicable proposals to make impossible fraudulent duplication or triplication of share issues. It is already punishable with penal servitude under the Forgery Act. Mr Shaw, in answer to a question, doubted the desirability of illegalising the sale of the Victoria Cross. The Army Act forbade the sale of decorations and medals to unauthorised persons. This did not prevent bona fide sales to collectors or .similar purchasers. Mr Thurtle: "Is not, the man who earns a decoration entitled to do what lie likes with it?" There was no answer. The House passed all stages of the Pill of Indemnity necessary through the appointment of seven instead of six Commoners as tinder-secretaries.