IMPERIAL POLITICS.
ANOTHER LIBERAL IN REVOLT. THE GRAIN DUTIES. A HOSTILE AMENDMENT. LONDON, May 5. Sir M. Hicks-Beach will withdraw his proposal that post offices should refund the pennies paid as a tax on small cheques. He now proposes that cheques under £2 should be exempted from the extra penny. May 6. The Right Hon. Sir H. Fowler, in a manifesto to his constituents, repudiates Home Rule and endorses Lord Rosebery's Irish decentralisation policy. He condemns the Budget and the Education Bill. May 8. Sir W. V. Harcourt, in the House of Commons, gave notice of an amendment to the second reading of the Finance Bill, that the House declines to impose duties on grain, flour, and other foodstuffs of first necessity. Mr J. J. Mooney's (Nationalist member for Dublin) resolution of censure on the Speaker for not calling Mr Chamiberlain to order, on March 20, for saying, in answer to an interruption by Mr J. Dillon, "You are a good judge of traitors," was negatived by 398 to 63.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2513, 14 May 1902, Page 15
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170IMPERIAL POLITICS. Otago Witness, Issue 2513, 14 May 1902, Page 15
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