FEELING RUNS HIGH

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12040, 19 January 1925, Page 7

FEELING RUNS HIGH

ITALIAN PARLIAMENT ■ i ' * • VIGOROUS INDICTMENT BY PAST PREMIER. MUSSOLINI RETORTS, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian ana N.Z Cable Association. January .18, 5.5 p.m.) ROME, January 17. Crowds gathered outside Parliament when the Opposition, headed by Signors iGiolitti, Salandra, and Orlando, presented a strongly-worded resolution, de"claring that, in view of the Government’s encroachraents on the liberty of tho subject, discussion of the Electoral •Bill would be injurious, and the momentous sitting opened in an atmosphere of excitement. The galleries were packed, j and the deputies spoke amidst a running fire of interruptions. At one moment it looked as if blowa would be exchanged. The vetexrau Giolitti rose, with a vehement gesture, and appeared about to leave the dhamber; blit his friends dissuaded him. - Then Orlando rose* - and Ae tumult ceased. His speech was a vigorous indictment of the Government’s _ methods. He argued Aat at no period in Italian history had there been such wholesale suppression of the press. 1 such/ denial of personal liberty and. public discussion. Mussolini several times interrupted Orlando, saving that- the Opppsition (itself was' responsible for necessitating such repression. Later he interjected “Twelve Fascist! "Have been killed in one mouth”; and Orlando retorted that' his friends were not responsible for that. CONFIDENCE MOTION - ■_/ ___■ . ■ ‘ ■ OVERWHELMING MAJORITY. Australian' and N.Z ; Cable Association. (Received January 18, p.mi.V ROME, January 17. The Chamber of Deputies voted con: fidence in the Goremment by 307 to 83' after an atlook launched, by Ae exEreanler, Orlando, on Ae Electoral Reform. Bill. -' AT EXPRESS SPEED CHAMBER PASSES NEW BILL OPPOSITION ADAMANT. Australian and N.Z.. Cable Association: (Received Januanr 19* 0.10, a.m.) ROME, January 17. The Chamber of' Deputies adjourned sins-die after passing at express speed the new Electoral Bill reverting .to the system of single- member constituencies. The' Opposition, throughout, practically ignored Ae merits of Ae new measure and conceptrated on the argument that fair representation of the people was impossible under present conditions. ' - Mussolini left several details to the free vote of the Ghamibery notably plural voting proposals, which the ■ Opposition contended would operate weightily in favour of Ae Fascists These proposals were rejeoted, bat the main Bill wa» adopted. -