THE FISCAL QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 254, 31 October 1904, Page 3

THE FISCAL QUESTION.

A GREAT CONFERENCE AT SOUTHAMPTON, MR CHAPLIN'S RESOLUTION. (Received Oct. 30, 5.(i p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 29. Fourteen hundred delegates attended a conference of the National Union of Conservatives and Constitutional Association® at Southampton, ind adopted, with only three dissenters, th.» Right Hon. Henr.v Chaplin's resolution declaring' that the time as arrived for a revision of the fiscal policy, and siipjiorting Mr Balour's claim for power to deal ivith the evil of unfair competition and the proposed colonial conference. A Frae Fooders' amendment to re- 1 strict the resolution to ill - Balfour's fiscal policy asi unfolded at Edinburgh only found thirteen supports .MS.

Mr Chaplin admitted that he favoured a more advanced view, but it was desirable to promote unity: The resolution satisfied his section. The conference was evidently averse to a fiscal discussion, and Mr Halfour merely remarked that if his Writings and speeches were read without a determination to read into them what was not! there they would not be found obscure and difficult in consistence.