BUDGET PROPOSALS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7444, 19 May 1911, Page 5

BUDGET PROPOSALS

PAYMENT OF MEMBERS RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED AND DESIRED. By Telegraph— Press Association— Copyright LONDON, May 17. In .connection with the Budget proposals ex-Ministers receiving political pensions and Ecclesiastical Commissioners are to bo excluded from receiving payment as members of Parliament. Many Liberals favour payment being withheld from Army officers and others with pensions, and desire legislation to prevent hopeless candidatures, and. to prohibit the handing of the salary to the charities of a member’s constituency. A number of Liberals and Labourites prefer that the salary should be fixed at £3OO instead of £4OO. The Nationalist leaders do not desire that salaries should be extended to the Irish, lost it should diminish the formerjs control over the members of the party. A few Unionists decline to follow Mr Austen Chamberlain in his opposition to the proposal, believing that the payment of salaries .would facilitate tho entry of working-class Unionists into the House. SANATORIA VOTE INCOME TAX RESOLUTIONS ' ADOPTED. (Received May 19, 0.5 a.m.) LONDON. May 18. The Budget debate was continued yesterday in the House of Commons. Mr Balfour, leader of the Opposition, said he welcomed the expenditure proposed on consumption sanatoria, but he warned the Government that through an exaggerated enthusiasm in the public mind on the matter of sanatorium treatment it was possible to waste money on permanent buildings that would be better devpted to scientific investigation of the causes of the disease. There was a great movement in favour of attempting to deal with tuberculosis in the home. . Mr Lloyd George, ■ Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying, stated that the Government was establishing a special fund to provide for scientific investigation. He hoped the santaoria would attract specialists, and added that Germany had spent more than was necessary. on building®. :It was needless to spend thousands of pounds on buildings and beds which hundreds would provide. , The income tax resolutions were passed.