IMPERIAL POLITICS.
FINANCE AND LAND. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! [United Press Association.] London, August 12. in the House of Commons, the i'.naiice Bill went through Committee. Mi Wolmer's motion to reduce tin dutj on tea by 2d, in favor of Brifcis:: grown tea, was rejected by 192 rot'.': to 70. Mr Dundas White asked whether \ : #us intended to pass Clause 11 of tin Revenue Bill, under which, in ch: valuation of agricultural land, no deductions would lie allowed for improvements made for upwards of '!( vears before 1909.
Mr Austen Chamberlain described the clause as a bribe to the land values group. Subsequently Mr Lloyd George :.aid that negotiations with the Opposif.ior. had lieen fesiiltless.jri The Opppsitior was willing to pass the olausp: ; if i' w'a i ' amended with, ,aj view, to fixing the unimproved value of agriciiltura 1 laud 'Without a irime' limit,* but rlio land value group insist on a limit and threaten an amendment to prevent the Bill proceeding. .
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 84, 13 August 1913, Page 5
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