THE ELECTION BILL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10902, 20 October 1911, Page 4

THE ELECTION BILL.

RADICAL FAULTS. [B? F.i.EOxnic Telegraph —Copyright.] (Per Press association./ Received October 20, aL 8.55 a m. .Melbourne, October 20. In the Senate Mr .Millon ijmcle a slashing attack on the new Sectoral JJill. He said that bv abolishing the postal vote the House would disfranchise about 30,000 women and infirm persons who voted last election, fixing of the. polling day as Satnrdaj will prevent Hebrews and other religious sects from voting, . while the right of a candidate t6 usk for a .recount was practically abolished. The Bill W°uld handicap t-lie Lalior party, though it was so hamstringing its opponents as to make its own position more secure but if anv reliance could be placed on the justice of the community the Government bad really erected a gallows.