IMPERIAL POLITICS
LAND TAXATION QUESTION. OUTSPOKEN ,SPEECH BY t MR CHURCHILL, Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON., .Inly 18. With a view to "educing the friction with the House of Lords and land-owners the Westminster Gazette ((!.) urges the (lovernmellt to drop the Dickineon amendment, inasmuch a.s the valuation of agricult ui-al land might give their opponents a handle to allege that the Constitution was being strained. Mr Churchill, speaking at Edinburgh in reply to Lord La-nsdowne, paid; "We want- tho Budget fairly and fully discussed and deliberately shaped by the Ffoweo of Commons. When the Finance liill leaves the House of Commons it ought to leavo in its final form. No amendment, excision, modifying, oy mutilation lvjll bo agreed to by us. We will stand no mincing, and unless Lord Lnnsdowjie and his landlordly friends cat up yonio of their own mince, Parliamentwill be dissolved." TRADE BOARDS BILL. Tho Unionist amendments to t-lio Trade. Boards Bill were negatived on t-ho ground that they introduced the fiscal question.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14580, 20 July 1909, Page 7
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