FEDERAL POLITICS
CORRUPTION CHARGES ROYAL COMMISSION NEGATIVED. i!y Teleeraph —Press Association —CopyricHi MELBOURNE, March 3. Speaking in the Senate, Senator Pearce, in replying to Senator Watson’s charges of corruption, detailed a conversation be had had with Senator Watson. Ho said the latter assured hint that ho would like to bo with Mr Hughes’s party, and the only reason he was not was that he feared if he took the step he could no longer live where he was now living, because the lives of himseif and family would .be made a hell on earth. In the House of Representatives, in the course of his reply to Senator W atson’s charges, Mr Hughes stated that the caucus of the party during the conscription reforohilum asked him to go to Labour organisations and obtain a free hand for them to enable the caucus party to support him. Mr Tudor’s motion asking for a Royal Commission was negatived by 35 votes to 18 and the motion for the postponement of the elections was carried bv 34 to 17.
A bill to repeal the Daylight Saving Act was read a first time in the House of .Representatives.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9600, 5 March 1917, Page 6
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