FINANCE BILL BLOCKED.
OBSTRUCTIONIST TACTICS.
DEMANDS FOR REFORMS.
A. and N.Z
DELHI. Mar. 19.
The Viceroy, the Earl of Reading, sent back the Finance Bill to the Legislative Assembly with a recommendation to pass it with a provision for a reduction of the salt duty.
Mitilal, Leader of the Nationalist Party, opposed this course, whereupon the Assembly refused the introduction of the bill without division.
The Viceroy's action was intended to meet all reasonable opposition to the Finance Bill on its. merits, by abandoning the enhanced salt duty, which caused the political controversy last year, but the Assembly refused its introduction solely on the ground of demands for further constitutional reforms not yet conceded.
A cable message published yesterday stated that the National Party in the Assembly refused consideration of the Finance Bill as a protest against the Government's failure to accept its recommendation to call a round-table conference with a view to granting further constitutional reforms. The party disregarded the grave -warnings of Sir Malcolm Hailey and other members that the British Government, whatever'party might happen to be in power, was bound to oppose obstruction. .;' ; ,•■• .■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 9
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