IMPERIAL POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18324, 15 August 1921, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

SAFEGUARDING INDUSTRIES. DISCUSSION IN THE COMMONS. Pre«a Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 12. On the motion for the third reading Mr Asquith moved the reioction of the Safeguarding of Industries Bill. He said that he found himself in a difficulty to know whether the measure was a serious fiscal proposal or a political freak. It appeared to be directed more against France than against any other Power. Mr Chamberlain twitted Mr Asquith with having accepted the Paris Economic Conference’s resolutions, which were drafted by Mr Runciman, as a bit of bluff against Germany. Mr Asquith, in effect, now Raid that ho had hoodwinked his colleagues over the resolutions. Mr Stanley Baldwin said that the fact that the British Parliament had passed such a Bill should be a warning to foreign countries that Britain was not going to juqgle with their currency to the disadvantage of our trade. The Bill was read a third time by 176 voles to 54. Tho Speaker ruled that the Bill was a Money Bill, thus precluding the House of Lords from amending or rejecting it.—A. and N.Z. Cable.