EXCITEMENT IN COMMONS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1930, Page 9

EXCITEMENT IN COMMONS

AMENDMENT by labour

DI FFERENCE WITH. LORDS

DYESTUFFS ACT EXPIRY

UPPER HOUSE WILL INSIST

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Dec. 17.

There was a crowded attendance in the House of Commons during the debate on the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, which had to be passed before the rising of the House on December 19. Mr. W. Graham, president of the Board of Trade, surprised the House by moving to disagree with the Lords amendment, which would continue the Dye Stuffs Act for another year. The House seethed with excitement as the' division hour approached. Mr. Graham’s motion was carried by 244 votes'to 238;./’ j' . ' Fifteen Liberals voted , with, the Conservatives/ Seven Labour members, including Mr. Oliver Baldwin and Misses Lee and Wilkinson, did not vote.

HOUSE OF LORDS WWL INSIST.

CAN THE GOVERNMENT RESIST? ,

Rec. 12.5 a.m. London, Dec. IS. The Daily Telegraph's political correspondent learns that the House of Lords intends to insist on the dyestuffs amendment and expresses the opinion that it will be difficult for the Government, in view of the significance ol the division, further to resist when the Bill is returned from the House or Lords the reinsertion.of the amendment..