SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.
DISORDERLY SCENES.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright,
CAPETOWN, May 28,
•A draft Bill amending the Immigration Act has been prepared. It abolishes the residential license, and validates, de facto, monogamous marriages by registration. Provision is made for Indian priestsi to solemnise marriages.
There were disorderly scenes when General Smuts (Minister of, Finance and Defence) moved the closure m regard to the land tax proposals.
Messrs Creswell, Madeley, arid Boydell were ordered to withdraw from the House.
General Smuts' amendment deleting tho exemption was carried by 49 to 20.
An amendment limiting the operation of the measure for a year was carried by 58 to 17.
(London Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received May 29. 8.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 28. In the Assembly an amendment was introduced to the Immigration • Bill (following a recommendtaion by the Indian Commission with the object' of promoting harmony) for polygamy among colored immigrants.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 3
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