IMPERIAL POLITICS
ADDRESS-IN-R IIPLY D EBATE,
LIVELY EXCHANGES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 18. The. Government will reintroduce the Revenue Bill, which was dropped last session. An amendment to tho Address-in-Rcply claiming that the 1909 Budget proposals are unuermining the security of house and land property was rejected by 000 votes, to 210.
Tho Chancellor of the Exchequer declared that agricultural wages had steadily increased since 1909, and that unemployment hi the building tra.de had decreased, while wages had increased.
The debate was utilised to heckle Mr Llyod George's land policy, and much acrimony ,-ind uproar were displayed.
The Speaker intervened, in exchanges between the President of the Board of Agriculture (Mr Runciman) and Lord Hugh Cecil, and between Mr Runciman and the Right Hon. W. H. Long. He also reprimanded Viscount Hclmslcy &XJ.) for his interference in the debate with running comment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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