IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 98, 20 December 1912, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE TERRITORIALS

London, December 19

Colonel Seely, Under-Secretary for War, replying to Mr. Clough, said that he was unaware whether every conscript in Australia or New Zealand must obtain military passports in moving from one district to another.

THE FRANCHISE BILL

Mr. Asquith announced that the Franchise Bill will go into committee on January 20th.

THE INSURANCE ACT,

With the voting completed, ten thousand doctors are against serving under the Insurance Act, two thousand for serving, and fifteen thousand did not vote.

THE DISESTABLISHMENT BILL

The Queen Ann bounty amendment was carried. The Welsh Radicals’ revolt collapsed. It was decided to support the Bill because it secured religious equality. Mr. Bonar Law twitted them with their docility. Their blaze of anger when a few thousands were withdrawn from their grasp show, cd the petty traders’ jealousy of a rival which animated the advocates of this meanest Bill. Mr. Llewellyn Williams alone denounced the Government’s surrendering to a handful of pious nonconformists and broad-minded Liberal churchmen. Mr. Asquith hoped that the Home Rule, Disestablishment and Franchise Bills would be completed early in February.