THE FINANCE BILL
LORDS AND COMMONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. London; j„iy 1?. (Received July 18, at 5 p.m.) Lord Lansdowne, speaking at the Conservative Association banquet, declared that, whilo be maintained an attitude of reserve regarding the fate of the Budget, the Lords were unlikely to proclaim that they had no responsibility regarding the Finance Bill and wero obliged to swallow it whole without wincing. Apart from text-book authorities, and looking at the mitsticn from a common-sense standpoint, it was unthinkable that where there were two legislative chambers it .should be left absolutely in the discretion of one of them to impose burdeiw, howevei monstrous and taxation however inequitable, and a new financial system however subversive of society. The Lords wero obliged to consider the question with an open mind, undeterred by threats and vapourin"S.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14579, 19 July 1909, Page 5
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