N.S.W-MOTION OF CENSURE.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8256, 24 May 1895, Page 3

N.S.W-MOTION OF CENSURE.

Sydney, May 22. The debate on the moion o f . icnsure was resumed io th« legislative - ssembly to-day. Mr Griffiths, txpreseing the \iawa pledged bj tbe Labor party, said iho Government wa; less objectionable ib n the Opposiujn, bul the patty were voting for the Income tax end not the Gov3rnment. He deolared tb >t Mr Reid, the Premier, had a whalebone b-iok-bone, whioh conld he bent to force d^mooretic reforms views be ter than the backbone oi Sir G. B. Dibts, which was .as britk as glass. Tbe Premier retorted Bfter Mr Griffiths' remarks th&t it would be a degradation to receive his vote. The Hous) will probably divide on the question early in the morning. The oenaure debate dragged wearily and spiritlessly throughout the day, and to-night at 11 30 there was no pre.ent sign of division. The Premier is determined to see the debate through before rising. Besides the amendment by Sir H. Farkes, Mr Schey haß moved to refer the fiscal i?bu -to a referendum. Mr Ewing also moved an ameudment condemning ihe polioy of tbe Government, as it would make Kanaka labor inevitable. Mr Copeland, speaking to the motion, regretted that tbe days oi battleaxea bad gone, otherwise they oould physically defend the industries proteoted by tariff. Sir Henry Parkes m&de a personal explanation, and s«id be had not joined tbe Protcc.ioois s, but was simply devoting his las*- energies of life to the cause of Union, nod would not assist Protection, exoept to pie vint a tinkering with the tariff Io the det imert of Federation.